REPORT 



OF 



S. P. LAIGLET, 



SECEETARY OP THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 



FOR THE TEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1895. 



To the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Gentlemen: In accordance with established custom I have the 

 honor to submit herewith a report of the operations of the Smithsonian 

 Institution for the year ending June 30, 1895, including the work placed 

 by Congress under its supervision in the National Museum, the Bureau 

 of Ethnology, the Bureau of International Exchanges, the National 

 Zoological Park, and the Astro-physical Observatory. 



I have given briefly in the body of the report a general account of 

 the affairs of the Institution and of its bureaus for the year, reserving 

 for the appendix the more detailed and statistical reports from the offi- 

 cers in charge of the different branches of work. 



The full report upon the National Museum by the assistant secretary, 

 Dr. G. Brown Goode, occupies a separate volume (Report of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, National Museum, 1895). 



THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



THE ESTABLISHMENT. 



The changes in the heads of the Executive Departments of the Gov- 

 ernment have effected likewise the Smithsonian establishment, which, 

 as organized a; the end of the year, consisted of the following ex officio 

 members : 



Grover Cleveland, President of the United States. 



Adlai E. Stevenson, Vice-President of the United States. 



Melville W. Fuller, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of 

 the United States. 



Richard Olney, Secretary of State. 



John G. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury. 



Daniel S. Lamont, Secretary of War. 



Judson Harmon, A ttorney- General. 



William L. Wilson, Postmaster- General. 



Hilary A. Herbert, Secretary of the Navy. 



Hoke Smith, Secretary of the Interior. 



J. Sterling Morton, Secretary of Agriculture. 



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