REPORT 



OF 



S. P. LANGLEY, 



SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 



JFOK THE YE Alt ENDING JUNE 30, 189G. 



To the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Gentlemen: I liave the honor to submit herewith a report of the 

 operations of the Smithsonian Institution for the year ending June 30, 

 1890, including the work placed by Congress under its supervision in 

 the National Museum, the Bureau of Ethnology, the Bureau of Interna- 

 tional Exchanges, the National Zoological Park, and the Astrophysical 

 Observatory. 



I have, as is customary, given briefly in the body of the report an 

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

 reserving for the appendix the more detailed reports from those in 

 charge of the different branches of work. 



The full report upon the National Museum by the assistant secre- 

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

 Smithsonian Institution, National Museum, 1896). 



THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



THE ESTABLISHMENT. 



The Smithsonian Establishment, as organized at the end of the fiscal 

 year, consisted of the following ex officio members: 



Gkovek 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, Attorney- General. 

 William L. Wilson, Postmaster- Genera I. 

 Hilary A. Herbert, Secretary of the Navy. 

 Hoke Smith, Secretary of the Interior. 

 J. Sterlino Morton, Secretary of Agriculture. 



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