RE PO KT 



OF 



S. p. L^ISTGLEY, 



SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 



FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 8(1.1903. 



To the Board i>f Regents of the Suuthmman Instltrdton. 



Gentlemen: I have the honor to present herewith my report, show- 

 ing the operations of the Institution dnring the year endino- June 30, 

 1903, inchidino- the work placed under its direction hyConoress in the 

 United States National Musenni, the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 the International Exchanges, the National Zoological Park, and the 

 Astroph\'sical Observator}". 



Following the precedent of several 3"ears, there is given, in the body 

 of this report, a general account of the afl'airs of the Institution and 

 its bureaus, while the appendix presents more detailed statements b}" 

 the persons in direct charge of the different ])ranches of the work. 

 Independent!}' of this, the operations of the National Museum are 

 fully treated in a separate volume of the Smithsonian Report, and the 

 Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology constitutes a volume 

 prepared undei- the supervision of the Chief of that Bureau. 



THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



THE KSTABLISHMENT. 



By act of Congress approved August 10, 1840, the Smithsonian 

 Institution was created an Establishyient. Its statutory members are 

 the President, the Vice-President, the Chief Justict^ of the United 

 States, and the heads of the P^xecutive Departments. The preroga- 

 tive of the Establishment is "the supervision of the affairs of the 

 Institution and the advice and the instruction of the r)<)anl of Regents." 



A vacanc}' continues to exist in the Establishment caused by the 

 succession to the Presidency of Vice-President Roosevelt. By the 

 orgamzation of the Department of Commerce and Labor its Secretary' 

 has become a member of the Estatdishment. 



SM 1903 1 1 



