28 REPOET OF THE SECRETARY. 



ready for the press, the curator of exchanges, William Crawford Win- 

 lock, passed away. 



Mr. Winlock died at Bay Head, N. J., September 20, 1896, having 

 but a few days before returned from a journey to London, Leipsic, and 

 Paris, whence he had gone in the interest of the affairs of the Bureau. 



Mr. Winlock, already well known as an astronomer, having been 

 attached to the United States Naval Observatory, continued to exer- 

 cise the functions of his profession after associating himself with the 

 Institution, and, in addition to his onerous duties as curator of ex- 

 changes, he was made honorary curator of physical apparatus in the 

 United States National Museum. At the time of his death he occu- 

 pied the chairs of astronomy in the Corcoran and Graduate schools of 

 the Columbian University. 



In the death of Mr. Winlock the Institution hac. lost not only one of 

 its most efficient officers, and one to whom the exchange service was 

 specially indebted, but one whose personal character endeared him in 

 an uncommon degree to his associates. 



GEORGE HANS BOEHMER. 



George Hans Boehmer died at Gaithersburg, Md., November 20,1895. 

 Mr. Boehmer was born in Berlin, Germany, May 6, 1842, and in 1868 

 came to the United States. 



In 1876 he was appointed on the staff of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 and after various promotions became chief clerk of the Exchange 

 Bureau, which position he held at the time of his death. He was an 

 accomplished linguist, and his efforts aided greatly in bringing the 

 Exchange Bureau to its present efficient standing. 



Bespectfully submitted. 



S. P. Langeey, 

 Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



