CI 



CONTEXTS. 



Page. 



The Smithsonian Institution. - 1 



The Establishment. 1 



Organization of the Board of Regents 2 



Meetings of the Board of Regents 2 



General considerations . 5 



Buildings 6 



Finances 7 



Research .._ \ 9 



Hodgkins fund 9 



Naples table 12 



Explorations . . '13 



Publications . 17 



Library 19 



Correspondence 20 



National Galler j' of Art _ 20 



Hamilton lecture 22 



International congresses . 22 



National Museum . _ 23 



Bureau of American Ethnology . - 26 



International Exchanges 26 



National Zoological Park 27 



Astrophysical Observatory 28 



Necrology 30 



Appendixes: 



I. Report on the United States National Museum 31 



II. Report on the Bureau of American Ethnology . _ 40 



III. Report on the International Exchange Service 53 



rV. Report on the National Zoological Park 67 



V. Report on the Astrophysical Observatory 74 



VI. Report of the Librarian 85 



VII. Report of the Editor . 89 



Illustrations: 



Plates I, II. Smithson mortuary chapel 6 



Plate III. African ostrich 68 



Plate IV. Grevy's zebra 70 



Plate V. Terrestrial temperature and solar radiation 76 



Plate VI. Intensity of solar radiation 80 



Plate VII. New 15-inch ca-lostat 82 



