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Department of Geology 19 



Services as Expert on Structural Materials 19 



Resurvey of the Petrified Forests 20 



Petrographical work in Montana 20 



Studies of the so-called Meteor Crater of Arizona 20 



Mineralogical Services during the late War 20 



Cambrian and Ordovician Paleontology and Stratigraphy of 



Virginia 20 



Cooperation with the Geological Survey of Maryland 21 



Geologic Studies in Central Tennessee 21 



Cambrian Paleontology of Wisconsin 21 



Permian Paleontology of the Island of Timor 21 



Studies in Recent and Cenozoic Bryozoa 21 



Cooperation with the Geological Survey of Canada 21 



Vertebrate Studies with the National Park Service 22 



Studies of North CaroHna Vertebrate Fossils 22 



Vertebrate Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada 22 



Cooperation with the U. S. Geological Survey 22 



Department of Anthropology 23 



Archeological Investigations in Guatemala 23 



Archeological Investigations in New Mexico 23 



Anthropological Studies at the Panama-California Exposition. . 23, 



Anthropological work with the Rockefeller Foundation 24 



Work with the Department of Justice 24 



Department of Arts and Industries 24 



Bureau of American Ethnology 25 



The National Gallery of Art 26 



National Zoological Park 27 



The Astrophysical Observatory 28 



International Exchanges 28 



The International Catalogue of Scientific Literature 29 



V. Conclusion 30 



I. HISTORICAL AND GENERAL 



The annotmced policy of the Smithsonian Institution has ever 

 been one of cooperation. In the plan of organization as given in 

 the first annual report (1847), "It is proposed — (i) To stimulate 

 men of talent to make original researches, by offering suitable re- 

 wards for memoirs containing new truths; and (2) To appropriate 

 annually a portion of the income for particular researches, under 

 the direction of suitable persons," the " suitable rewards " to consist 

 of money, medals, etc., offered for original memoirs on all branches 

 of knowledge. As examples of objects for which such appropria- 

 tions might be made, the following was given: 



(i) Systems of extended meteorological observations, for solving the 

 problem of American storms. 



