ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FOR THI YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1895. SUBJECTS. 1. Proceedings of the Board of Regents for the session of January 1895. 2. Report of the Executive Committee, exhibiting the financial affairs of the Institution, including a statement of the Smithson fund, and receipts and expenditures for the year ending June 30, 1895. 3. Annual report of the Secretary, giving an account of the opera tions and condition of the Institution for the year ending June 30, 1895 with statistics of exchanges, etc. 4. General appendix, comprising a selection of miscellaneous mem oirs of interest to collaborators and correspondents of the Institution, teachers, and others engaged in the promotion of knowledge. Thes memoirs relate chiefly to the calendar year 1895. IV CONTENTS. Page Letter from the Secretary, submitting the Annual Report of the Regents to III JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE Board of REGENTS.. XI Stated meeting January 23, 1895.. XI ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS relative to the Smithsonian Institu- tion, National Museum, etc.. Fifty-second Congress, third session..... II. Report of the Director of the Bureau of Ethnology.. III. Report of the Curator of Exchanges.. Oceanography, Bionomics, and Aquiculture, by William A. Herdman. Botanical Work of the British Association, by W. T. Thiselton-Dyer. Polychromy in Greek Statuary, by Maxime Collignon Relation of Primitive Peoples to Environment, Illustrated by American Exam- |