VI CONTENTS. 



The Smithsonian Institution — Continued. Page. 



Library 10 



Hodgkins fund 11 



Avery fund 16 



Correspondence 16 



Miscellaneous : 



Naples table 17 



Atlanta Exposition 17 



Oriental Congress 17 



Archives 18 



Assignment of rooms 18 



History of James Smitbson 18 



The Hamilton fund 19. 



Portrait of Professor Baird 19 



American Historical Association 19 



American Medical Association 19 



United States National Museum 19 



Bureau of American Ethnology 22 



International exchanges 24 



United States National Zoological Park 25 



Astrophysical Observatory 32 



Necrology 33 



Appendixes : 



Appendix I. The United States National Museum . . 39 



II. Eeport of the Director of the Bureau of Ethnology 42 



III. Eeport of the Curator of Exchanges 55 



IV. Eeport of the Superintendent of the National Zoological Park. 68 

 V. Eeport upon the Astrophysical Observatory 75 



VI. Eeport of tbe Librarian 80 



VII. Eeport of the Editor 83 



GENEEAL APPENDIX. 



Atmospheric Electricity, by Prof. Arthur Schuster 91 



The General Bearings of Magnetic Observations, by Ettrick W. Creak 107 



Eecent Progress in Optics, by Prof. LeConte Stevens 117 



Air and Life, by Dr. Henry de Varigny - 135 



The Atmosphere in Eelation to Human Life and Health, by Francis Albert Eollo 



Eussell 203 



The Air of Towns, by Prof. J. B. Cohen 349 



The Composition of Expired Air and its Effects upon Animal Life, by Drs. J. S. 



Billings, S. Weir Mitchell, and D. H. Bergey 389 



Physiological Light, by Eaphael Dubois 413 



Oceanography, Bionomics, and Aquiculture, by William A. Herdman 433 



Botanical Work of the British Association, by W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 455 



Zoology since Darwin, by Prof. Ludwig v. Graff 477 



The Evolution of Modern Scientific Laboratories, by Dr. William H.Welch ... 493 



The Yellow Eaces, by Dr. E. T. Hamy 505 



Compulsory Migrations in the Pacific Ocean, by Otto Sittig 519 



The Old Settlements and Architectural Structures in Northern Central America, 



by Dr. Carl Sapper 537 



The Cliff Villages of the Eed Eock Country, and the Tusayan Euins of Sik- 



yatki and Awatobi, Arizona, by J. Walter Fewkes 557 



Eace and Civilization, by Prof. W. M. Flinders Petrie 589 



