REPORT 



OF THE 



SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



CHARIvES D. WALCOTT 

 FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1914, 



To the Board of Regents of the STrdthsonian Institution: 



Gentlemen : I have the honor to submit herewith a report on the 

 operations of the Smithsonian Institution and its branches during the 

 fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, including work placed by Congress 

 under the direction of the Board of Regents in the United States 

 National Museum, the Bureau of American Ethnology, the Interna- 

 tional Exchanges, the National Zoological Park, the Astrophysical 

 Observatory, and the United States Bureau of the International 

 Catalogue of Scientific Literature. 



The general report reviews the affairs of the Institution proper 

 and briefly summarizes the operations of its several branches, while 

 the appendices contain detailed reports by the assistant secretary 

 and others directly in charge of various activities. The reports on 

 operations of the National Museum and the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology will also be published as independent volumes. 



THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



THE ESTABLISHMENT. 



The Smithsonian Institution was created an establishment by act 

 of Congress approved August .10, 1846. Its statutory members are 

 the President of the United States, the Vice President, the Chief 

 Justice, and the heads of the executive departments. 



THE BOARD OP REGENTS. 



The Board of Regents consists of the Vice President and the 

 Chief Justice of the United States as ex officio members, three Mem- 

 bers of the Senate, three Members of the House of Representatives, 

 and six citizens, " two of whom shall be resident in the city of Wash- 

 ington, and the other four shall be inhabitants of some State, but no 

 two of them of the same State." 



In regard to the personnel of the board, it becomes my sad duty 

 to record the death on December 22, 1913, of Representative Irvin 



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