REPORT 



OF 



S. P. LANGLEY, 



SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 



FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1898. 



To the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Gentlemen : I have the honor to present herewith my customary 

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

 ing June 30, 1898, including the work placed under its direction by 

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

 can Ethnology, the International Exchanges, the National Zoological 

 Park, and the Astrophysical Observatory. 



Following the precedent 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 presents more detailed statements by the 

 persons indirect charge of the different branches of the work. Independ- 

 ently of this, the operations of the National Museum are fully treated 

 in a separate volume of the Smithsonian Eeport, prepared by Acting 

 Assistant Secretary C. D. Walcott, and the report of the work of the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology constitutes a volume prepared under 

 the supervision of Major J. W. Powell, the Director of that Bureau. 



THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



THE ESTABLISHMENT. 



I have to record three changes during the year, caused by the resig- 

 nation of Secretary of State John Sherman, Attorney-General Joseph 

 McKenna, and Postmaster-General James A. Gary, who were suc- 

 ceeded by the Hon. William B. Day, the Hon. John W. Griggs, 

 and the Hon. Charles Emory Smith. As organized at the end of 



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