10 EEPOET OF THE SECRETARY. 



on the early development of Pkidendrinni. A brief summary of the 

 work of Doctor Hargitt lias l>een received and will appear in the first 

 quarterly issue of the Smithsonian jVIiscellaneous Collections. A 

 more detailed report is to be published later in the Zoologisches 

 Jahrbuch. 



Dr. C H. Bardeen, associate professor of anatomy in Johns Hopkins 

 University, occupied the Smithsonian seat during- the months of April, 

 May, and June, 1903, for the purpose of makino- experimental inves- 

 tigations in enil)ryological development. 



In view of the exceptional opportunity for special research afforded 

 at the Naples Station, which is frequently mentioned appreciatively 

 in the reports sul)niitted by the appointees of the Institution, the Sec- 

 retary^ is glad to have found it practicable to renew again the lease of 

 the Smithsonian Table, which he hopes on the expiration of the present 

 contract to be in a position to extend for another term of years. 



The submission })y a Smithsonian appointee of a brief summary of 

 the work done at Naples is an appreciated courtes}', but it may be 

 again stated that should an investigator desire to publish the results of 

 his work on his own responsibility, a copy of his memoir has always 

 been deemed sufficient for the purpose of the Institution, which is 

 chiefly to make suitable reference in the annual report to the often 

 noteworthy work of those occupying the Smithsonian seat. 



It may be said that while the summary of the scientific history of 

 an applicant, which it is customary to submit with a request for an 

 appointment, is often unnecessary as a means of acquainting the Insti- 

 tution with the work of an investigator, such a sketch is of service in 

 completing the files of the Institution relative to each appointee, and 

 an abstract of the data thus submitted is transmitted to Doctor Dohrn, 

 with each notice of an approved application, for the files of the zoo- 

 logical station. 



Dr. T. H. Morgan, of Bryn Mawr, who has several times filled vacan- 

 cies caused by the absence of members of the advisory committee, 

 courteously consented again to supply the place of Prof. E. B. Wilson, 

 during liis absence in Europe from February till September, 1903. 

 With this exception the personnel of the committee has been unchanged 

 during the year. It gives me pleasure to record again my apprecia- 

 tion of the aid rendered me l)y the committee in all questions relating 

 to appointments to the Smithsonian table. 



EXPLORATIONS. 



The Institution has continued to carry on various biological and 

 ethnological explorations through the medium of the National Museum 

 and the Bureau of American Ethnology, and has also cooperated with 

 the Executive Departments in these directions. The details of most 

 of these explorations are given in the paragraphs devoted to the sev- 

 eral bureaus. 



