﻿EEPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  SECEETARY 
  51 
  

  

  material 
  shown 
  was 
  returned 
  to 
  Washington 
  in 
  December, 
  all 
  in 
  

   good 
  condition. 
  

  

  SPECIAL 
  EXHIBITION 
  FOR 
  THE 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION 
  

  

  At 
  the 
  conference 
  of 
  the 
  establishment 
  and 
  Board 
  of 
  Regents 
  of 
  

   the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  on 
  February 
  11, 
  1927, 
  called 
  to 
  advise 
  

   with 
  prominent 
  Americans 
  with 
  reference 
  to 
  the 
  future 
  policy 
  and 
  

   field 
  of 
  service 
  of 
  the 
  Institution, 
  there 
  was 
  arranged 
  in 
  the 
  main 
  

   hall 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  building 
  a 
  special 
  exhibit 
  to 
  demonstrate 
  

   present 
  activities 
  and 
  research. 
  The 
  National 
  Museum, 
  as 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  

   major 
  organizations 
  administered 
  by 
  the 
  Smithsonian, 
  was 
  promi- 
  

   nently 
  represented 
  through 
  its 
  departments. 
  

  

  For 
  the 
  occasion 
  in 
  question 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  temporary 
  booths 
  was 
  

   arranged 
  about 
  the 
  entire 
  hall 
  where 
  tables 
  and 
  cases 
  were 
  utilized 
  

   for 
  the 
  exhibition 
  of 
  specimens, 
  and 
  the 
  walls 
  were 
  given 
  over 
  to 
  

   charts, 
  diagrams, 
  and 
  photographs. 
  The 
  entire 
  installation 
  was 
  

   arranged 
  not 
  as 
  a 
  temporary 
  transfer 
  of 
  cases 
  and 
  materials 
  from 
  the 
  

   National 
  Museum 
  but 
  as 
  a 
  demonstration 
  of 
  research 
  activities 
  on 
  the 
  

   part 
  of 
  the 
  staff. 
  Each 
  object 
  or 
  each 
  chart 
  displayed, 
  while 
  shown 
  

   for 
  its 
  interest, 
  was 
  designed 
  to 
  represent 
  some 
  particular 
  phase 
  of 
  

   science, 
  and 
  the 
  whole 
  was 
  planned 
  to 
  show 
  a 
  cross 
  section 
  of 
  exist- 
  

   ing 
  researches 
  as 
  developed 
  in 
  the 
  Institution 
  in 
  general. 
  

  

  The 
  department 
  of 
  anthropology 
  was 
  represented 
  by 
  materials 
  to 
  

   show 
  recent 
  studies 
  in 
  the 
  anthropology 
  and 
  archeology 
  of 
  the 
  

   Columbia 
  River 
  Valleys 
  of 
  Alaska, 
  the 
  lower 
  Mississippi 
  Valley, 
  

   and 
  the 
  ancient 
  Indian 
  pueblos 
  of 
  the 
  Southwest, 
  supplemented 
  by 
  

   certain 
  matters 
  dealing 
  with 
  Old 
  World 
  archeology, 
  with 
  the 
  evo- 
  

   lution 
  of 
  man 
  as 
  a 
  species 
  in 
  the 
  animal 
  kingdom, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  

   development 
  of 
  the 
  modern 
  American 
  since 
  the 
  invasion 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  

   World 
  by 
  the 
  Caucasian 
  race. 
  

  

  Projects 
  illustrated 
  in 
  geology 
  and 
  paleontology 
  included 
  studies 
  

   in 
  elephants 
  and 
  dinosaurs 
  as 
  representative 
  of 
  ancient 
  vertebrate 
  

   life, 
  and 
  illustrations 
  of 
  investigations 
  into 
  the 
  thousands 
  of 
  fossil 
  

   species 
  known 
  among 
  the 
  invertebrates, 
  of 
  the 
  highest 
  importance 
  as 
  

   indicators 
  of 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  ancient 
  rock 
  strata 
  with 
  their 
  included 
  oils 
  

   and 
  minerals. 
  With 
  these 
  were 
  examples 
  of 
  minerals 
  taken 
  from 
  

   recent 
  gifts 
  and 
  bequests 
  in 
  the 
  Roebling 
  and 
  Canfield 
  collections, 
  to- 
  

   gether 
  with 
  materials 
  to 
  illustrate 
  the 
  formation 
  of 
  soil 
  through 
  the 
  

   disintegration 
  of 
  granite 
  and 
  other 
  rock. 
  

  

  The 
  work 
  comprised 
  in 
  the 
  department 
  of 
  biology 
  is 
  so 
  vast 
  

   that 
  attempt 
  was 
  made 
  to 
  cover 
  only 
  a 
  few 
  of 
  its 
  various 
  branches. 
  

   The 
  section 
  devoted 
  to 
  botany, 
  important 
  as 
  the 
  foundation 
  of 
  agri- 
  

   culture, 
  was 
  illustrated 
  by 
  the 
  results 
  of 
  recent 
  explorations 
  on 
  the 
  

   plant 
  life 
  of 
  tropical 
  America, 
  and 
  by 
  demonstrations 
  of 
  systematic 
  

  

  