CONTENTS.

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Resolution of Congress to print extra copies of the Report....

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Letter from the Secretary, submitting the Annual Report of the Regents to

Congress....

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JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS..

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Stated meeting, January 9, 1889

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REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE for the year ending June 30, 1889

ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS relative to the Smithsonian Institution,

National Museum, etc., for 1889

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Appropriations committed to the care of the Institution..

Estimates for the next fiscal year, 1889-'90....
Museum appropriations transferred to the Institution.

Buildings

Additional Museum building urgently needed....

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THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION-Continued.

Buildings-Continued.

Recent accessions of material very large...
Storage room quite insufficient

Fire-proofing of the west wing greatly desired....

Research.....

Astro-physical observatory contemplated

Valuable apparatus lent to the Institution.

Explorations..............

Investigations in Northern Africa by Mr. T. Williams..

Investigations in Thibet by Mr. W. W. Rockhill

Collections from Egypt by Dr. James Grant Bey

Expected collections from Indians of Hoopa Reservation by Jeremiah

Curtin

Expected collections from Russia and Finland.

Also from Alaska..

Publications........

Classes of publication....

Museum publications no longer included in the Miscellaneous Collec-

tions...

General Appendix to the Annual Smithsonian Report a source of ex-

pense

A change in the character of the papers undertaken..

Distribution of Smithsonian publications....

A small portion reserved for sale ....

Facilities offered to others in publication

Smithsonian exchange system.

Death of the curator, Dr. J. H. Kidder

Mr. William C. Winlock appointed his successor

Magnitude of the exchange operations..

Cost of the exchanges to the Institution...

Claim for increased appropriations..

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Only one-third of Government publications received for transmission.

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Separate halls desired in the new Congressional Library Building, for

the Smithsonian Library

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Temporary quarters for the same suggested..............

Improvement in the reading room of the Institution...

Efforts to increase the number of periodicals by exchange.

Lists of scientific periodicals furnished by correspondents..
Total addition of books received during the past year

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Department of living animals

Gifts of birds and quadrupeds...............

Inconvenience resulting from limited accommodations.....

Total number of living specimens received during the year

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THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION-Continued.

Zoological Park........

Report by the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds

Amendment introduced to the District of Columbia bill....

This finally passed and made a law March 2

Land on Rock Creek selected for the purpose

Miscellaneous....

Assignment of rooms for scientific work..

Toner lecture fund......

Grants and subscriptions.....

Privilege of the floor of the House of Representatives

Smithsonian grounds.......

American Historical Association....

Stereotype plates......

Temporary shed for astro-physical observations...

Reception.....

Correspondence.......

UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM...

Classified service of the Museum.

Schedule of officers and employés..

Increase of the collections...

Tabular statement from 1882 to 1889.

Catalogue entries....

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Principal accessions to the collections..

Co-operation of Departments and Bureaus of the Government...

Photographic exhibit ....

Distribution of duplicate specimens..

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Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States...

Marietta Centennial Exposition ...

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Injury to the collections by frequent transportation .....

Appropriation required to maintain and improve the collections ...

BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY

Field work

Mound explorations..

General field studies

Office work

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The National Scientific Institutions at Berlin, by Albert Guttstadt.....

Hertz's Researches on Electrical Oscillations, by G. W. de Tunzelmann....

Repetition of Hertz's Experiments, etc., by Frederick T. Trouton....

Progress of Meteorology in 1889, by George W. Curtis...

How Rain is Formed, by H. F. Blanford...

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On Aerial Locomotion, by F. H. Wenham

On the Movements of the Earth's Crust, by A. Blytt...

Time-keeping in Greece and Rome, by F. A. Seely

Botanical Biology, by W. T. Thiselton-Dyer.......

Elementary Problems in Physiology, by J. S. Burdon Sanderson

On Boscovich's Theory, by Sir William Thomson..

The Modern Theory of Light, by Oliver J. Lodge.

Michelson's Recent Researches on Light, by Joseph Lovering....

Photography in the Service of Astronomy, by R. Radau..

The Life-work of a Chemist, by Sir Henry E. Roscoe..

Memoir of Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer, by A. Müller

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Memoir of Gustav Robert Kirchoff, by Robert von Helmholtz....

On Heredity, by Sir William Turner....

Anthropology in the Last Twenty Years, by Rudolph Virchow..

Scandinavian Archæology, by Ingwald Unset

Progress of Anthropology in 1889, by Otis T. Mason.

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The Last Steps in the Genealogy of Man, by Paul Topinard

The State and Higher Education, by Herbert B. Adams

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The Molecular Structure of Matter, by William Anderson..

Aluminum, by H. C. Hovey

The Eiffel Tower, by William A. Eddy...

The Great Terrestrial Globe at the Paris Exhibition of 1889

Geographical Latitude, by Walter B. Scaife....

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