1690 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
example, the Institution has accepted and administered a fund which, under the 
name of the donor, is called ‘‘the Hodgkins fund,”’ and which is given for the 
especial purpose of ‘‘the increase and diffusion of more exact knowledge in regard 
to the nature and properties of atmospheric air in connection with the welfare of 
man.’’ This fund is also deposited in the Treasury of the United States. Other dona- 
tions have been received and are administered for other specific purposes. 
The seat of the Institution is at Washington, but its activities reach throughout 
the world in various ways, and principally through the system of correspondence 
already referred to. The present number of correspondents is about 24,000, and by 
means of this system the Institution not only gives, but receives, communications 
from men of learning in all countries. 
In this and other ways it has gathered at Washington a special library of books 
bearing upon the history of arts, sciences, discoveries, and inventions. The library 
now includes 300,000 titles, the greater proportion of which is, by permission of 
Congress, deposited in the same building and accessible with the National Library. 
Besides the above activities, which are carried on with the special fund already 
referred to, of which the nation has consented to act as the guardian, there are cer- 
tain bureaus or divisions of the Government which the Legislature has placed in its 
especial charge, and for the cost of which Congress has, at different times, made 
special appropriations. In this way it has placed under the charge of the Institution 
the United States National Museum, the Bureau of International Exchanges, the 
Bureau of Ethnology, the National Zoological Park, and the Astrophysical Observa- 
tory. These also are administered by the Secretary, under the direction of the 
Board of Regents. The present Secretary of the Institution is 8. P. Langley, to 
whom all communications should be addressed, at Washington. 
NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK—ENTRANCE TO PARK. 
April 30, 1894—Senate. 
Mr. Witi1am M. Stewart proposed an amendment to sundry civil 
bill for 1895 (H. 5575): 
For improving the Adams Mill road for a driveway into the Zoological Park from 
the entrance thereof, $15,000. 
Referred to Committee on Appropriations. 
June 22, 1894—Senate. 
Mr. I. G. Harris reported favorably amendment proposed by Mr. 
William -M. Stewart to District of Columbia bill for 1895 (H. 5481): 
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For grading and macadamizing the Adams Mill road from Columbia road to the 
Zoological Park, $3,000. 
August 7, 1894. 
District of Columbia act for 1895. 
For opening entrance into Zoological Park, from Woodley Lane 
road, and opening driveway into Zoological Park, from said entrance 
along the west bank of Rock Creek, $2,500, to be paid wholly from 
the revenues of the District of Columbia. 
(Stat., XXVIII, 251.) 
