CONTElNrTS. 



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The Smithsonian In'stitution 4 



The Establishment 4 



The Board of Regents 4 



General considerations 5 



Administration 8 



Finances - 9 



Researches : 



Smithsonian grants 11 



Hodgkins fund 12 



Naples table 14 



Publications 16 



The Library 21 



International Catalogue of Scientific Literature 21 



Preservation of American Antiquities 23 



Gifts to the Institution 23 



Correspondence 24 



Expositions, congresses, and celebrations 25 



Miscellaneous 26 



National Gallery of Art 27 



The art collections of Charles L. Freer 2& 



The art collection of Harriet Lane Johnston 31 



National Museum 35 



Bureau of American, Ethnology 36 



International exchanges 37 



National Zoological Park 39 



Astrophysical Observatory 40 



Appendix: 



I. Report on the United States National Museum 43 



II. Report on the Bureau of American Ethnology 47 _ 



III. Report on the International Exchanges 51 



IV. Report on the National Zoological Park 68 



V. Report on the Astrophysical Observatory 73 



VI. Report on the Library 79 



VII. Report on the Publications 85 



VIII. Report on the Lewis and Clark Exposition 88 



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