EEPOET OF THE SECEETAEY. 7 



vide for carrying on the work of the federal branches of the Institu- 

 tion. 



Not knowing the conditions or reasons for the rejection of certain 

 estimates for 1909, and feeling that the committees and the Congress 

 had approved of the general plan of operation of the several federal 

 branches of the Institution, I have prepared estimates for the fiscal 

 year 1910 on the basis of securing effectiveness in administration; 

 creditable results both in exhibition, research, and publication ; and a 

 natural development so as to compare favorably in the final result 

 with national institutions of the same type in other countries. For 

 instance, I have the feeling that if our Government undertakes to 

 establish and maintain a national zoological park at the capital city 

 it should not rank, as it does now, fifth or sixth among parks of the 

 same type elsewhere. A carefully considered plan has been formu- 

 lated for the development of the Zoological Park, and the estimates 

 have been made in accordance with it. The same has been done for 

 the National Museum and the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



EXPLORATIONS AND RESEARCHES. 



The resources of the Smithsonian Institution are at present too 

 limited to permit of large grants for extensive explorations or inves- 

 tigations, but as far as the income allows aid is given in various lines 

 of research work and it is sometimes found possible to engage in ex- 

 peditions likely to accomplish important results. If funds could be 

 obtained to be administered under the Institution, the scientific work 

 of the Government might often be supplemented by original re- 

 searches of a character that would hardly be undertaken by the 

 Government, and which would be of great service to humanity and 

 to science. 



Through the National Museum, the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 and the Astrophysical Observatory the Institution has been enabled 

 to carry on various biological, ethnological, and astrophysical re- 

 searches, which will be found fully described elsewhere in this report. 



STUDIES IN CAMBUIAN GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY. 



In my last report reference was made to studies of the older sedi- 

 mentary rocks of the North American Continent which I have been 

 carrying on for the past twenty years. This work was continued in 

 the Canadian Eockies during the field season of 1907. Early in July 

 a camp outfit was secured at Field, British Columbia, and work be- 

 gun on Mount Stephen. Subsequently sections were studied and 

 measured at Castle Mountain, west of Banff, Alberta; at Lake Lou- 

 ise, south of Laggan, Alberta ; and on Mount Bosworth, on the Con- 

 tinental Divide near Hector, British Columbia. Upward of 20,000 



