REPORT ON COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL AND 



RESEARCH WORK CARRIED ON BY THE 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



AND ITS BRANCHES 



CONTENTS 



I. Historical and General 2 



II. The Smithsonian Organization 3 



III. Cooperation : Definition of the Term 4 



(i) Cooperation through advice and correspondence 4 



(2) Cooperation through furnishing materials 5 



(3) Cooperation through furnishing facihties 7 



(4) Cooperation through personal assistance, expert and other- 



wise 7 



(5) Cooperation through supply of funds 8 



(6) Cooperation through publications 8 



IV. Specific instances of Cooperation by the Smithsonian Institution and 



its Branches 9 



The National Museum 9 



Department of Biology 10 



North Pacific fur-seal investigations 10 



Investigations on the life history of the lobster 12 



The Geographic Society of Baltimore expedition to the 



Bahamas 12 



Harriman Alaska Expedition 13 



The Zoological Expedition of Dr. Theodore Lyman to the Altai 



Mountains, Siberia and Mongolia 13 



General Survey of the Mexican Flora 14 



Study of the Cactaceae 14 



Exploration of northern South America 14 



Trees and Shrubs of Mexico 15 



Flora of Central America and Panama 15 



Studies in West Indian Ferns 16 



North American Flora 16 



Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone 16 



Flora of the District of Columbia 16 



Flora of the National Parks 17 



Flora of the Pacific Coast 17 



Cooperation with the U. S. Department of .A-griculture 17 



Mississippi Pearl Fisheries 18 



Research Work on Ship worms iS 



Experiments in heredity 19 



Cooperation with the Chemical Warfare Service 19 



Other cooperation by the Division of Mollusks 19 



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