REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 13 



The Establishment and the Regents, by Mr. Goode ; and list of Regents with brief 



biographical notices, by Mr. W. J. Rhees. 

 The Secretaries, by Mr. Goode. 



The Benefactors of the Institution, by Mr. Langley. 

 Buildings and grounds, by Mr. Goode. 

 The Smithsonian Library, by Mr. Cyrus Adler. 

 Tbe National Museum, by Mr. F. W. True. 

 The Bureau of Ethnology, by Mr. W J McGee. 

 Tbe Bureau of Exchanges, by Mr. W. C. Winlock. 

 The As trophy sical Observatory, by Mr. Langley. 

 Tbe Zoological Park, by Dr. Frank Baker. 

 Expeditions and explorations, by Mr. F. W. True. 

 The Smithsonian publications, by Mr. Cyrus Adler. 



I have now decided to add to this another chapter, being the biography 

 of the late Dr. Goode, by Dr. David Starr Jordan, president of Lelaud 

 Stanford, Junior, University. 



The second part of the book, which may be described as apprecia- 

 tions of the work of the Institution in different departments of science, 

 is almost entirely written by gentlemen not connected with the Insti- 

 tution. The chapters are as follows: 



1. Physics, by T. C. MeudenhalL president of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 



Worcester, Mass. 



2. Mathematics, Robert Simpson Woodward, professor of mechanics, Columbia Uni- 



versity. New York City. 



3. Astronomy and Astrophysics, by Edward S. Holden, director of the Lick Observa- 



tory, Mount Hamilton, Cal. 



4. Chemistry, by Dr. Marcus Benjamin, United States Natioual Museum. 



5. Geology and Mineralogy, by William N. Rice, professor of geology, Wesleyan Uni- 



versity, Middletown, Conn. 



6. Meteorology, by Dr. Marcus Benjamin. 



7. Paleontology, by Edward D. Cope, professor of zoology and comparative anatomy, 



University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and editor of the American Natu- 

 ralist. 



8. Botany, by William G. Farlow, professor of cryptogamic botany, Harvard Uni- 



versity, Cambridge, Mass. 



9. Zoology, by Dr. Theodore N. Gill, professor of zoology, Columbian University, 



Washington. 

 in. Ethnologj and a rchaeology, by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, late director of the Hemen- 

 w ay Expedition. 



11. Geography, by Gardiner G. Hubbard, president of the National Geographic 



s i n • i c i \ , Washington. 



12. Bibliography, by Dr. H. Carrington Bolton. 



i:s. Cooperation of the Smithsonian Institution with other institutions of learning, 

 l > \ Daniel Coit Gilman, president of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. 



1 I. The influence of the Smithsonian Institution upon the development of libraries, 

 the organization of the work of societies, and the publication of scientiiic lit- 

 eral ure in the United Slates, by Dr. .John S. Billings, director of the New 

 York Public Library. 



15. Relations between tbe ^mitlisonian Institution and the Library of Congress, by 

 Ainsworth K. SpolVoril, Librarian of Congress. 



The illustrations will consist of copies of the two known portraits ot 

 James Smithson and a representation of the memorial tablet erected at 



