CONTENTS. XIII 



Forty-seventh Congress, 1881-1883 Continued. Page. 



Expositions, New Orleans 887 



Philadelphia Electrical 890 



Louisville 890 



Fireproofing Smithsonian building 891 



Lectures 893 



Geological Survey building 895 



International exchanges 895 



estimates 905 



appropriations 906 



Forest preservation 907 



Glover entomological plates 907 



Ethnology, contributions and reports 908 



bulletins 909 



National Museum, employees 909 



estimates 910 



appropriations '. 913 



Documents 917 



Statue of Joseph Henry 918 



Turner's and Nelson's reports on Alaska 923 



Reports of Smithsonian Institution and National Museum 924 



Report of Smithsonian Institution 928 



Illustrations of the reports 929 



Army Medical Library and Museum 929 



Forty-eighth Congress, 1883-1885: 



Smithsonian building, estimates 930 



appropriations 932 



Ethnology, estimates 932 



appropriations 932 



International exchanges, estimates 933 



appropriations 933 



Army Medical Library and Museum 934 



Appointment of Regents 938 



University of Medicine 939 



Ethnology, reports 940 



National Museum, Sunday opening 944 



transportation 944 



report 944 



estimates 944 



appropriations 947 



Bureau of Fine Arts 949 



Privilege of floor of Senate 949 



Acting Secretary of Smithsonian Institution 952 



Neumann's silk flag 953 



Expositions, New Orleans 953 



Cincinnati 957 



Louisville 957 



London Fishery 957 



Report of Smithsonian Institution 957 



. Ventilation of Hall of House of Representatives 959 



Free postage 961 



Public printing and binding 962 



Henry statue 962 



Grant relics... 962 



