ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE ENDING JUNE 30, 1912. SUBJECTS. 1. Annual report of the secretary, giving an account of the operations and conditions of the Institution for the year ending June 30, 1912, with statistics of exchanges, etc. 2. Report of the executive committee, exhibiting the financial affairs of the Institution, including a statement of the Smithsonian fund, and receipts and expenditures for the year ending June 30, 1912. 3. Proceedings of the Board of Regents for the sessions of December 14, 1911, and February 8, 1912. 4. General appendix, comprising a selection of miscellaneous memoirs of interest to collaborators and correspondents of the Institution, teachers, and others engaged in the promotion of knowledge. These memoirs relate chiefly to the calendar year 1912. IX THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. JUNE 30, 1912. Presiding officer ex officio.-WILLIAM H. TAFT, President of the United States. WILLIAM H. TAFT, President of the United States. JAMES S. SHERMAN, Vice President of the United States. EDWARD DOUGLASS WHITE, Chief Justice of the United States. PHILANDER C. KNOX, Secretary of State. FRANKLIN MACVEAGH, Secretary of the Treasury. HENRY L. STIMSON, Secretary of War. George W. WicKERSHAM, Attorney General. FRANK H. HITCHCOCK, Postmaster General. George von L. MEYER, Secretary of the Navy. WALTER L. FISHER, Secretary of the Interior. JAMES WILSON, Secretary of Agriculture. CHARLES NAGEL, Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Regents of the Institution: JAMES S. SHERMAN, Vice President of the United States, Chancellor. SHELBY M. CULLOM, Member of the Senate. HENRY CABOT LODGE, Member of the Senate. Augustus O. BACON, Member of the Senate. JOHN DALZELL, Member of the House of Representatives. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, citizen of Washington, D. C. CHARLES F. CHOATE, Jr., citizen of Massachusetts. JOHN B. HENDERSON, Jr., citizen of Washington, D. C. CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS, citizen of Indiana. Executive Committee.—A. O. BACON, ALEXANDer Graham Bell, John Dalzell. Secretary of the Institution.-CHARLES D. WALCOTT. Assistant Secretary in charge of National Museum.-RICHARD RATHBUN. Assistant Secretary in charge of Library and Exchanges.-FREDERICK W. TRUE. Chief Clerk.-HARRY W. DORSEY. Accountant and Disbursing Agent.-W. I. ADAMS. Editor.-A. HOWARD CLARK. ΧΙ THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. Keeper ex officio.-CHARLES D. WALCOTT, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secretary in charge.—RICHARD RATHBUN. Administrative Assistant.-W. DE C. RAVENEL. Head Curators.-WILLIAM H. HOLMES, LEONHARD STEJNEGER, G. P. MERRILL. Curators.-R. S. BASSLER, A. HOWARD CLARK, F. W. CLARKE, F. V. COVILLE, W. H. DALL, B. W. EVERMANN, J. M. Flint, U. S. N. (retired), W. H. HOLMES, WALTER HOUGH, L. O. HOWARD, ALES HRDLIČKA, G. P. MERRILL, GERRIT S. MILLER, Jr., Richard Rathbun, ROBERT RIDGWAY, LEONHARD Stejneger, CHARLES D. WALCOTT. Associate Curators.-J. N. ROSE, DAVID WHITE. Curator, National Gallery of Art.-W. H. HOLMES. Chief of Correspondence and Documents.-RANDOLPH I. GEARE. Editor.-MARCUS BENJAMIN. Photographer.-T. W. SMILLIE. Registrar. S. C. BROWN. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. Ethnologist in charge.-F. W. HODGE. Ethnologists.-J. WALTER FEWKES, J. N. B. HEWITT, FRANCIS LA FLESCHE, TRUMAN MICHELSON, JAMES MOONEY, MATILDA COXE STEVENSON, JOHN R. SWANTON. Philologist.-FRANZ BOAS. Editor.-JOSEPH G. GURLEY. Illustrator.-DE LANCEY W. GILL. INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES. Assistant Secretary in charge.-FREDERICK W. TRUE. Chief Clerk.-C. W. SHOEMAKER. NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK. Superintendent.-FRANK BAKER. Assistant Superintendent.-A. B. BAKER. ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY. Director.-C. G. ABBOT. Aid.-F. E. FOWLE, Jr. REGIONAL BUREAU FOR THE UNITED STATES, INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE. Assistant in charge.-L. C. Gunnell. REPORT ANFO OF THE SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION CHARLES D. WALCOTT, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1912. To the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution: GENTLEMEN: I have the honor to submit herewith a report showing the operations of the Smithsonian Institution and its branches during the year ending June 30, 1912, including the work placed by Congress under the direction of the Board of Regents in the United States National Museum, the Bureau of American Ethnology, the International Exchanges, the National Zoological Park, the Astrophysical Observatory, and the United States Bureau of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. The general report reviews the affairs of the Institution proper, with brief paragraphs relating to the several branches, while the appendix presents detailed reports by those in direct charge of the work. Independently of the present report, the operations of the National Museum and the Bureau of American Ethnology are fully treated of in separate volumes. THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. THE ESTABLISHMENT. The Smithsonian Institution was created an establishment by act of Congress approved August 10, 1846. Its statutory members are the President of the United States, the Vice President, the Chief Justice, and the heads of the executive departments. THE BOARD OF REGENTS. The Board of Regents consists of the Vice President and the Chief Justice of the United States as ex officio members, three Members of the Senate, three Members of the House of Representatives, and six citizens, "two of whom shall be resident in the city of Washington, and the other four shall be inhabitants of some State, but no two of them of the same State." |