REPORT 



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S. p. LANGLEY, 



SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 

 FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1897. 



To the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Gentlemen: I have the honor to present herewith the Secretary's 

 report, showing the operations of the Institution during the year end- 

 ing June 30, 1897, including the work placed under its direction by 

 Congress in the United States National Museum, the Bureau of Ameri- 

 can Etbnology, the International Exchanges, the National Zoological 

 Park, and the Astrophysical Observatory. 



Following the custom of several years, I have in the body of this 

 report given a general account of the affairs of the institution and its 

 bureaus, while the appendix jjresents more detailed statements by the 

 persons in direct charge of the different branches of the work. Inde- 

 pendently of this, the operations of the National Museum are fully 

 treated in a separate volume of the Smithsonian Eeport prepared by 

 Acting Assistant Secretary 0. D. Walcott, and the report of the work 

 of the Bureau of American Ethnology constitutes a volume prepared 

 under the supervision of Maj. J. W. Powell, the Director of that 

 Bureau. 



THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



THE ESTABLISHMENT. 



The Smithsonian Establishment, as organized at the end of the fiscal 

 year, consisted of the following ex officio members: 



William McKinlet, President of the United States. 



Garret A. Hobart, Vice-President of the United States. 



Melville W. Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States. 



John Sherman, Secretary of State. 



Lyman J. Gage, Secretary of the Treasury. 



EussELL A. Alger, Secretary of War. 



Joseph McKenna, Attorney- General. 



James A. Gary, Postmaster- General. 



John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy. 



Cornelius N. Bliss, Secretary of the Interior. 



James Vf ilson, Secretary of Agriculture. 



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