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ANNUAL REPORT
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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
SHOWING THE OPERATIONS EXPENDITURES, AND CONDI- TION OF THE INSTITUTION
FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1906
W ASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1907
LETTER
FROM THE
SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONTAN INSTITUTION
ACCOMPANYING
The Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Institution for the year ending June 30, 1906.
SMITHSONIAN Instirurion, Washington, May 13, 1907. To the Congress of the United States:
In accordance with section 5593 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, I have the honor, in behalf of the Board of Regents, to submit to Congress the Annual Report of the operations, expendi- tures, and condition of the Smithsonian Institution for the year ending June 30, 1906.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully. vour obedient servant, Cuas. D. Watcorr, Secretary.
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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1906.
SUBJECTS.
1. Proceedings of the Board of Regents for the sessions of Decem- ber 5, 1905, and January 24, March 6, and May 16, 1906.
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, 1906.
3. Annual report of the Acting Secretary, giving an account of the operations and condition of the Institution for the year ending June 30, 1906, with statistics of exchanges, ete.
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. These memoirs relate chiefly to the calendar year 1906.
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GENERAL APPENDIX.
ihe Smithsonian institution =... 22-0 eee eee Modern Theories of Electricity and Matter, by Madame Curie___________ ahosciyicy. Dy Eran: Himstedt.—-—- =) Besse ee eee
Recent Advances in Wireless Telegraphy. by G. Marconi___-____________ Revisions of the Theory of Electrolysis, by H. S. Carhart_______________ Recent Progress in Astronomical Research, by C. G. Abbot______-__-____ AStronomy on Mont Blane by . Radau =e The Problem of the Metalliferous Veins, by James Furnam Kemp________ Tron Ore Reserves, by Charles Kenneth Leith... -_-- =~ -§- = == The Geology of the Diamond and Carbonado Washings of Bahia, Brazil.
By Orville A. Derby: 2 5. 22 yi ee The Eruption of Vesuvius in April. 1906. by A. Lacroix__________________ To the North Magnetic Pole and through the Northwest Passage, by
eG@ald A MmUNOSON Sa Iceland: Its History and Inhabitants, by Herr Jon Stefansson__________ The Recently Discovered Tertiary Vertebrata of Egypt. by C. W. Andrews_ Polyembryony and the Determination of Sex, by E. Bugnion____________ A Contribution to the Morphology of the Mammoth, Elephas primigenius
Blumenbach; with an explanation of my attempt at a restoration, by
E. Pfizenmayer Heredity, Dy i. Cucnolsa2 |= es te a ee eee The Bisons of the Caucasus, by A. Yermoloff._________- The Founding of Colonies by Atta sexdens, by Jakob Huber_____________ Quaternary Human Remains in Central Europe, by Hugues Obermaier___ The Origin of the Slavs, by Professor Zaborowski Scalping in America, by Georg Friederici_____________ === Zoology and Medicine, by Raphael Blanchard_________-_______-_ The Role of Chemistry in Painting, by Eugene Lemaire________________ Oils, Varnishes, and Mediums Used in the Painting of Pictures, by A. P.
PanTie! 2-8 ee ee ee eee National Reclamation of Arid Lands, by C. J. Blanchard____________ international Science, by Arthur Schuster_____________________________ Samuel Pierpont Langley, by Cyrus Adler
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THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
MEMBERS EX OFFICIO OF THE “ ESTABLISHMENT.”
June 80, 1906.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States. CHARLES W. FaArRBANKS, Vice-President of the United States. MELVILLE W. FULLER, Chief Justice of the United States. ELinv Root, Secretary of State. LESLIE M. SuHaw, Secretary of the Treasury.
WILLIAM H. Tart, Secretary of War.
WiLiiamM H. Moopy, Attorney-General.
GrorcE B. CorTELYou, Postmaster-General.
CHARLES J. BONAPARTE, Secretary of the Navy.
ETHAN ALLEN HitcHcock, Secretary of the Interior. JAMES WILSON, Secretary of Agriculture.
Victor H. Mrercatr, Secretary of Commerce and Labor.
REGENTS OF THE INSTITUTION.
(List given on following page.)
OFFICERS OF THE INSTITUTION.
(Vacancy) Secretary. RIcHARD RATHBUN, Assistant Secretary, in Charge U. S. National Musewm (Acting Secretary). Cyrus ADLER, Assistant Secretary, in Charge of Library and Exchange.
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REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
By the organizing act approved August 10, 1846 (Revised Statutes, Title LX-XITI, section 5580), “ The business of the Institution shall be conducted at the city of Washington by a Board of Regents, named the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, to be composed of the Vice-President, the Chief Justice of the United States, three members of the Senate, and three members of the House of Representatives, together with six other persons other than Members of Congress, 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 the same State.”
REGENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1906.
Term expires. The Chief Justice of the United States: MELVILLE W. FULLER, elected Chancellor and President of the Board January 9, 1889. The Vice-President of the United States:
CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS, ex officio March 4, 1905________ Mar. 3, 1909 United States Senators: SHELBY M. CULLOM (appointed March 24, 1885; March 28, 1889; December 18, 1895, and March 7, 1901) ----_________ Mar. 3, 1907 HENRY CABOT LODGE (appointed December 7, 1905) _—-__ Mar. 3, 1911 AUGUSTUS O. BACON (appointed December 7, 1905)_-____ Mar. 3, 1907
Members of the House of Representatives : ROBERT R. HITT (appointed August 11, 1898; January 4, 1894; December 20, 1895; December 22, 1897; January 4, 1900; December 13, 1901; January 12, 1904, and December ae TRG. OS) ico san eet og ie ES oh oe Re ee ee a Dec. 25, 1907 ROBERT ADAMS, Jr. (appointed December 20, 1895; De- cember 22, 1897; January 4, 1900; December 13, 1901; January 12, 1904, and December 13, 1905. Died June 1,
AG 9) eee rece es eee eg ee ee Pe HUGH A. DINSMORE (appointed January 4, 1900; Decem-
bere 190l and damvery 25904) aoe Ss ee eee Dee. 27, 1905 WILLIAM M. HOWARD (appointed December 13, 1905) _____ Dee. 25, 1907 JOHN DALZELL (appointed June 12, 1906) -______________- Dec. 25, 1907
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Citizens of a State: JAMES B. ANGELL, of Michigan (appointed January 19, 1887; January 9, 1893; January 24, 1899, and January De OOS) er = eee en a ee ANDREW D. WHITE, of New York (appointed February 15, 1888; March 19, 1894; June 2, 1900, and April 23, 1906) -—- RICHARD OLNEY, of Massachusetts (appointed January 24, 1900} andehebruanye23 6906) ea a a GEORGE GRAY, of Delaware (appointed January 14, 1901) - Citizens of Washington City: JOHN B. HENDERSON (appointed January 26, 1892; Jan- ine Ph eis keys fal dienanbenay AG, NO) a ree ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL (appointed January 24, 1898, ING TANNA Y e210 OF) ee ee ee ee ee
Executive Committee of the Board of Regents.
JOHN B. HENDERSON, Chairman.
Term expires.
. 23, 1911
. 21, 1910
27, 1910
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL. ROBERT R. HITT.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1906.
At a meeting held March 12, 1903, the Board of Regents adopted the following resolution:
Resolved, That, in addition to the prescribed meeting held on the fourth Wednesday in January, regular meetings of the Board shall be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in December and on the 6th day of March, unless that date falls on Sunday, when the fellowing Monday shall be sub- stituted.
In accordance with this resolution, the Board met at 10 o’clock a.m. on December 5, 1905, and on January 24+ and March 6, 1906. A special meeting was also held on May 16, 1906.
REGULAR MEETING OF DECEMBER 5, 1905.
Present: Mr. Chief Justice Fuller (Chancellor) in the chair; Rep- resentative R. R. Hitt, Representative Robert Adams, jr., Represent- ative Hugh A. Dinsmore, Dr. Andrew D. White, the Hon. John B. Henderson, the Hon. George Gray, and the Acting Secretary, Mr. Richard Rathbun.
The Acting Secretary announced that the Secretary was unable to be present on account of illness.
MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING.
The minutes of the meeting held March 6, 1905, were read in abstract and approved.
DEATH OF SENATOR O. H. PLATT.
The Chancellor said: “ It becomes my sad duty to bring to the attention of the Board a matter which is undoubtedly in the minds of us all—the departure of our friend and late colleague, Orville H. Platt. He died in the midst of his labors, cut like a diamond with its own dust. In view of his long and eminent career, and of the many years of faithful, intelligent, and useful service rendered this Insti- tution, I suggest that we put upon our records a minute expressive of our sense of loss.”
Judge Gray then offered the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted: |
Whereas the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution is called upon to mourn the death, on April 21, 1905, of Orville Hitchcock Platt, a member of the Board since 1899;
Be it resolved, That the Regents give expression to their sense of loss in the
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demise of a man of exemplary rectitude, who discharged all his duties with wisdom, fidelity and conscientious care; a statesman of the first rank whose services to his country are of enduring worth. This Board has lost a colleague whose interest in the affairs of the Institution was ever keen, and whose sery- ices were always helpful. At the meetings of the Board, on committees to which he was appointed, and in the Senate Chamber, his voice was always given with that combination of progressive thought and conservative judgment which so distinguished his character. In his death the nation has lost a wise states- man, the Institution a valued counsellor, and the members of the Board a cherished friend.
Resolved, That this resolution be entered as a part of the journal of the Board, and a copy thereof be transmitted to Mrs. Platt.
THE FREER ART COLLECTIONS.
The Chancellor brought before the Board the offer of Mr. Charles L. Freer, of Detroit, Michigan, to bequeath or make present convey- anee of title to his art collections to the Smithsonian Institution or the United States Government, as indicated in his letter to the Secre- tary of December 27, 1904. The Acting Secretary read a letter from Mr. Freer, acknowledging the resolution adopted by the Board at its meeting on March 6, 1905.
After an extended discussion it was, on motion of Judge Gray:
Resolved, That in view of the difficulties concerning any action by the Regents in reference to the offer made by Mr. Freer, and of our high appreciation of the generosity exhibited by him, the Secretary be instructed to write Mr. Freer
asking his permission to make public the correspondence between him and the Regents regarding his said offer.
The following resolution was also agreed to:
Whereas the special committee appointed to visit Detroit and examine the art collection of Mr. Freer reported that ‘it was mutually agreed that, at some early period during the next session of Congress and at the convenience of the Board of Regents of this Institution, Mr. Freer would visit Washington and exhibit such portions of his collection as might properly and fairly represent the whole; ”
Resolved, That the Secretary be requested to provide a suitable place in the building of the Smithsonian Institution or the United States National Museum for the exhibit of such collections as Mr. Freer may desire to bring to Wash- ington, and that he communicate with Mr. Freer to ascertain what time would be most convenient for the exhibit of a representative selection as agreed upon between Mr. Freer and the committee of the Board of Regents.
DEFALCATIONS OF W. W. KARR.
The Acting Secretary submitted to the Board, on behalf of the Secretary, a statement of the defalcations of W. W. Karr, for many years the accountant and disbursing agent of the Institution, involv- ing a serious loss to its income. After remarks by Senator Hender-
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son, chairman of the executive committee, and others, the following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That the matter of the Karr defalcations be referred to the execu- live committee with a request that they will consider it fully and make report at the next meeting of the Board.
NEW BUILDING FOR THE NATIONAL MUSEUM.
The Acting Secretary reported progress in the construction of the new building for the National Museum. The first stone was laid on August 21, 1905, and the walls and piers of the basement were approaching completion. The steel girders for the main floor were at hand, and it was expected that the walls of another story would be finished before the end of the fiscal year.
ANNUAL MEETING OF JANUARY 24, 1906.
Present: Mr. Chief Justice Fuller (Chancellor) in the chair; Sen- ator Henry Cabot Lodge, Senator A. O. Bacon, Representative Rob- ert Adams, jr., Representative W. M. Howard, Dr. J. B. Angell, the Ton. Richard Olney, the Hon. George Gray, Dr. A. Graham Bell,
and the Acting Secretary, Mr. Richard Rathbun. APPOINTMENT OF REGENTS.
The Chancellor announced the appointment of Regents, as fol- lows:
By the Vice President, on the part of the Senate, December 7, 1905: Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in place of Senator Orville H. Platt, deceased; and Senator A. O. Bacon to succeed Senator Francis M. Cockrell, whose term of service in the Senate had expired.
By the Speaker, on the part of the House of Representatives, December 13, 1905: Representatives R. R. Hitt and Robert Adams, jr., to succeed themselves, and Representative W. M. Howard to succeed Mr. Hugh A. Dinsmore, whose term as Representative had expired.
MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING.
The minutes of the meeting held December 5, 1905, were read in abstract and approved.
THE SECRETARY *S ABSENCE.
The Chancellor read a letter from the Secretary explaining that ill- ness would prevent his attendance at the meeting, and asking the indulgence of the Board for his absence from his post. The Secre-
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tary stated that his last annual report to the Board had been com- pleted prior to his illness and would be laid before the meeting, and that he was confident that the affairs of the Institution were well in hand and its work would go forward.
RESOLUTION RELATIVE TO INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.
On behalf of the executive committee Doctor Bell offered the fol- lowing resolution, which was adopted :
Resolved, That the income of the Institution for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907, be appropriated for the service of the Institution, to be expended by the Secretary, with the advice of the executive committee, with full discretion on the part of the Secretary as to items.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY.
The Acting Secretary submitted the annual report of the Secretary to June 30, 1905, which was accepted.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Doctor Bell submitted the annual report of the executive commit- tee to June 30, 1905, which, on motion, was accepted, with the under- standing that it might be brought up at the next meeting for adoption.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PERMANENT COMMITTEE.
The permanent committee reported, through Doctor Bell, as fol- lows:
Hodgkins fund.—The case of Smith v. O'Donoghue has been set tor hearing on the 13th of February next. This case, in which the Institution is interested as residuary legatee under the will of Mr. Hodgkins, involves the hability of the residual estate on a warranty deed of certain property in New York City conveyed by Mr. Hodg- kins in May, 1871. It was decided in favor of the Institution in the appellate division, and the chances are considered excellent for suc- cess in the court of appeals.
Andrews will case.—The hearing upon the application of the exec- utor to have the Andrews will interpreted was had in the New York supreme court, and a decision has been handed down establishing the right of the Andrews Institute for Girls to receive the legacy pro- vided in the will, thus depriving the Smithsonian of the residual legacy of perhaps one and a half million dollars. Counsel of the Institution are of the opinion that though the decision in the lower court is unfavorable to the Institution the prospects of success in the appellate division are good. It is the intention to join with the heirs in appealing the case.
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Avery bequest—Offers have been received during the year from private parties for the purchase of several of the Avery properties, but as they were deemed inadequate, the proposals were not consid- ered. An appraisement of these properties shows an estimated total valuation of $35,500.
Sprague and Reid bequests ——There have been no changes in the status of the Sprague and Reid bequests during the year.
On motion the report was accepted.
REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON THE DEFALCATIONS OF WwW. W. KARR.
Doctor Bell, on behalf of the executive committee, presented a report based upon their examination into the defalcations of W. W. Karr, in comphance with the resolution of the Board of December 5, 1905. The methods employed by the former accountant in abstract- ing funds and the amounts embezzled were fully set forth. The pecu- lations consisted mainly in appropriating miscellaneous receipts derived from the sale of publications, repayments of moneys, ete., though approximately $4,000 had been taken from funds received for the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature and $7,400 from Government appropriations for the National Museum. The latter sum, however, was immediately repaid by the company by which Karr was bonded. The capital of the Institution, in view of the manner of its investment, could not be touched.
Immediately upon the discovery of the defalcation Karr was appre- hended. Later he was indicted, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The report concluded with a statement of the safeguards which had been adopted to prevent the further misappropriation of funds, and with a draft of the following resolution :
Resolved, That the executive committee be authorized to employ an expert
sccountant to act as clerk of the committee in connection with its examination of accounts.
The resolution was agreed to and the report accepted.
Doctor Bell expressed the opinion that the Institution was respon- sible for the amount abstracted by the accountant from the funds of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, which amount should have been forwarded to the London office by the Institution, in accordance with its agreement to act as the American representa- tive for the collection and transmission of subscriptions. This view was accepted by the Board, and on motion of Judge Gray the follow- ing resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That the executive committee be instructed to make application to Congress, as they may see fit, for an appropriation to cover the amount col-
lected by the Institution for the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature and embezzled by its former accountant.
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THE FREER ART COLLECTIONS.
The Chancellor laid before the Board a letter from the President, urging the acceptance of the Freer collections, and inclosing a com- munication from Mr. Freer, dated December 15, 1905, reciting the terms and conditions of his offer as then made through him.
These letters are as follows:
THe WHITE Howse, Washington, December 19, 1905. To the Chief Justice of the United States, Chancellor of the Smithsonian Insti- tution. and Member of the Board of Regents:
Sm: I herewith inclose a copy of a letter sent to me by Mr. Charles L. Freer offering to bequeath his art collections to the Smithsonian Institution or the United States Government. together with $500,000 in money to construct a suit- able building; or if it is deemed preferable, to make a present conveyance of the title to such Institution or the Government and a bequest of the sum of $500,000 for the building. The offer is made upon certain terms and conditions which, in my judgment, are proper and reasonable.
It is impossible to speak in too high terms of the munificence shown by Mr. Freer in this offer: and it is one which the Government of the United States should at once close with as a matter of course. Mr. Freer’s collection is liter- ally priceless; it includes hundreds of the most remarkable pictures by the best known old masters of China and Japan. It also includes hundreds of pic tures, studies, and etchings by certain notable American artists, those by Whistler alone being such as would make the whole collection of unique value— although the pictures by the Chinese and Japanese artists are of even greater worth and consequence. There are other art pieces which I need not mention. Any comptent critic can testify to the extraordinary value of the collection. I should suggest that either Doctor Sturgis Bigelow or Mr. John La Farge be sent to Detroit to examine the collection, if there is any question about it; although I assume that every member of the Board of Regents is familiar with its worth. The conditions which Mr. Freer imposes are in effect that nothing shall be added to or taken from the collection after his death, and that the col- lection shall be exhibited by itself in the building to be constructed for it with- out charge to the public; furthermore, that he shall have the right to make such additions to the collection as he may deem advisable, but not to take any- thing away from it after April next. the collections remaining in the possession of Mr. Freer until his death and then in the possession of his executors until the completion of the building. These conditions are, of course, eminently proper.
All that is asked of the Government or the Regents of the Smithsonian now is that they shall accept this magnificently generous offer. Nothing whatever else is demanded at present. When Mr. Freer’s death occurs land will, of course, have to be allotted for the erection of the building—a building which will itself be a gift of great beauty to the Government—and when the building is com- pleted and the collection installed therein, and not before, Congress will have to take some steps to provide the comparatively small sum necessary to take care of what will be a national asset of great value.
I need hardly say that there are any number of communities and of institu- tions which would be only too glad themselves to promise to erect such a build- ing as that which Mr. Freer is going to erect, for the sake of getting this col- lection. The offer is one of the most generous that ever has been made to this Government, and the gift is literally beyond price. All that is now asked is
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that we shall agree to accept on behalf of the nation the great benefit thus to be bestowed upon the nation.
I hope that the Regents of the Smithsonian will feel warranted to close with the offer; for they are the national guardians of such a collection. If in their wisdom they do not see their way to accept the gift, I shall then be obliged to take some other method of endeavoring to prevent the loss to the United States Government, and therefore to the people of the United States, of one of the most valuable collections which any private individual has ever given to any people.
Sincerely yours, (Signed ) THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
WASHINGTON, D. C., December 15, 1905. To the PRESIDENT:
Permit me to repeat my offer to bequeath my art collections to the Smith- sonian Institution or to the United States Government, and also the sum of five hundred thousand dollars in money for the purpose of constructing a suitable building in which to house them, upon the following terms and conditions:
First. The sum of five hundred thousand dollars shall be paid by my executors to the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution or the United States Government promptly after my decease, and shall be used forthwith for the construction of a fireproof building connected with the National Museum, the construction of which has been recently authorized, or reasonably near thereto.
Second. The interior of this building shall be arranged with special regard for the convenience of students and others desirous of an opportunity for uninter- rupted study. A suitable space shall be provided in which the Peacock Room shall be reerected complete. The whole interior arrangement of the building shall be agreed upon between the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution and myself within a reasonable time after the acceptance of this offer.
Third. The collections, with such additions thereto as shall be made during my lifetime, shall be delivered by my executors to the Regents immediately after the building is constructed and ready to receive them.
Fourth. The collections and the building shall be cared for and maintained perpetually by the Smithsonian Institution or the United States Government at its own expense.
Fifth. No addition or deduction shall be made to the collections after my death, and nothing else shall ever be exhibited with them, or in the same build- ing, nor shall the said collections, or any part thereof, be removed at any time from the said building except when necessary for the purpose of making repairs or renovations in the building.
Sixth. No charge shall ever be made for admission to the building or for the privilege of examining or studying the collections.
Seventh. The collections and building shall always bear my name in some modest and appropriate form.
In lieu of the foregoing offer, I am willing, upon the conditions above expressed, to make a present conveyance of the title to said collections to the Institution or the Government, and a bequest of the sum of five hundred thou- sand dollars for the building, provided :
1. The collections shall remain in my possession during my life, and in the possession of my executors after my death until the completion of the building.
2. I shall have the right to make such additions to the collections as may seem to me advisable or necessary for the improvement of the collections, or any of them.
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3. On or before April next, I will file with the officials of the Smithsonian Institution or the United States Government a descriptive inventory of the objects belonging to the collections.
4. Both I and my executors shall be free from any liability on account of any loss in, or danger that may accrue to the collections while in my or their charge, even though such loss or injury shall occur by reason of my or their negligence, or the negligence of my or their servants, agents or employees.
The exact form of the bequest or gift, and the details for carrying it into execution, are legal questions that can be agreed upon by counsel representing the Institution or the Government and myself.
I am, with great respect, very sincerely yours. 2 CHARLES L, FREER.
This offer differed from that made directly to the Secretary of the Institution under date of December 27, 1904, in omitting the word “changes” in section 3 of the proposition to bequeath, leaving to Mr. Freer only the right to add to the collections, section 2 of the offer to make present conveyance being also modified to the same effect. Under the offer of present conveyance an additional clause, numbered 3, had been added, as follows: “ On or before April next I will file with the officials of the Smithsonian Institution or the United States Government a descriptive inventory of the objects belonging to the collections.”
After a discussion of the significance of these changes and of reso- lutions offered by Doctor Bell looking toward the acceptance of the offer, the following resolution was adopted :
The Board of Regents, recognizing the great value to the people of the United States of the art collection so generously offered by Mr. Charles L. Freer, of Detroit, Michigan,
Resolved, That the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution do hereby accept the tender of Mr. Freer to make present conveyance to the Institution of the title to his art collection, and to bequeath to the Institution the sum of five hundred thousand dollars for the construction of a fireproof building in which
to house it—under the terms as stated in his communication to the President of the United States dated December 15, 1905.
REQUEST OF BELL & CO. FOR REIMBURSEMENT IN CONNECTION WITH THE BARNETT FORGERIES.
Doctor Bell read a letter from Messrs. Bell & Co., bankers, request- ing that the Institution submit an estimate to Congress for the sum of $525, with interest, to reimburse the bank in that amount, which had been paid on forged indorsements of Frank M. Barnett while an employee of the Bureau of American Ethnology. Doctor Bell said that the letter had been considered by the executive committee which had resolved to submit it to the Board of Regents with a recom- mendation that it be referred to the attorney of the Institution for examination and report. On motion, the letter was so referred.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS. XIX REGULAR MEETING OF MARCH 6, 1906.
Present: Mr. Chief Justice Fuller (Chancellor) in the chair; the Vice-President, Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks; Senator Henry Cabot Lodge; Senator A. O. Bacon; Representative Robert Adams, jr.; Representative W. M. Howard; Dr. Andrew D. White; Dr. A. Gra- ham Bell, and the Acting Secretary, Mr. Richard Rathbun.
DEATH OF SECRETARY LANGLEY.
The Chancellor announced the death of Secretary Langley, at Aiken, South Carolina, on February 27, 1906, and designated the Vice-President and Senator Lodge as a committee to draft a suitable minute to be spread upon the records and to be transmitted to the family of Mr. Langley. The following resolution was subsequently adopted by a rising vote:
Resolved, That the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution express their profound sorrow at the death on February 27, 1906, of Samuel Pierpont Langley, Secretary of the Institution since 1887, and tender to the relatives of Mr. Langley their sincere sympathy in their bereavement ;
That in the death of Mr. Langley this Institution has lost a distinguished, efficient and faithful executive officer, under whose administration the interna- tional influence of the parent Institution has been greatly increased, and by whose personal efforts two important branches of work have been added to its care—the National Zoological Park and the Astrophysical Observatory ;
That the scientific world is indebted to Mr. Langley for the invention of important apparatus and instruments of precision, for numerous additions to knowledge, more especially for his epoch-making inventions in solar physics, and for his efforts in placing the important subject of aerial navigation upon a sci- entific basis ;
That all who sought the truth and cultivated science, letters, and the fine arts, have lost through his death a coworker and a sympathizer ;
That the executive committee be requested to arrange for a memorial meeting to be held in Washington ;
That Dr. Andrew D. White be invited to prepare a suitable memorial which shall form a part of the records of this Board ;
That the expenses of the funeral of Mr. Langley be provided for out of the income of the Institution.
APPOINTMENT OF REGENT.
The Chancellor announced the reappoitment of Mr. Richard Olney asa Regent by joint resolution of Congress approved February 23, 1906.
MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING.
The minutes of the annual meeting held January 24, 1906, were read in abstract and approved.
xX PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
The report of the executive committee for the year ending June 30, 1905, presented and accepted at the annual meeting, was adopted.
REQUEST OF BELL & CO. FOR REIMBURSEMENT.
Doctor Bell, on behalf of the executive committee, reported that in accordance with the action of the Board at its last meeting the request of Bell & Co. had been submitted to the attorney for the Institution, who had expressed the opinion that the Institution was neither morally nor legally obligated. The matter was referred back to the committee for further inquiry and consideration, and Senator Bacon was designated to act with the committee.
INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE.
Doctor Bell, on behalf of the executive committee, referring to the resolution adopted at the last meeting, authorizing the committee to apply to Congress for an appropriation to cover the amount collected for the International Catalogue by the Institution, and embezzled by the late accountant, reported that it was deemed inadvisable to make such application, but recommended that Congress be asked to appro- priate funds for the continuance of the catalogue on behalf of the Government. He offered the following resolutions, which were sepa- rately adopted:
Resolved, That there be paid to the Central Bureau of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature at London, from time to time as the funds permit, the sum embezzled by W. W. Karr from the subscriptions to this Cata- logue collected by the Institution.
Resolved, That it is the sense of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution that the work for the International Catalogue of Scientific Litera- ture be continued, and that application be made to Congress for a sufficient
annual appropriation to enable this work to be carried on under the direction of the Institution.
RESOLUTIONS OF THE AERO CLUB.
The Acting Secretary read the following resolutions regarding the aerodromic work of the late Secretary, which had been adopted by the Aero Club of America on January 20, 1906:
Whereas our esteemed colleague, Dr. S. P. Langley, Secretary of the Smith- sonian Institution, met with an accident in launching his aerodrome, thereby missing a decisive test of the capabilities of this man-carrying machine, built after his models, which flew successfully many times; and
Whereas, in that difficult experiment, he was entitled to fair judgment and distinguished consideration because of his important achievements in investi- gating the laws of dynamic fiight, and in the construction of a variety of successful flying models: Therefore be it
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Resolved, That the Aero Club of America, holding in high estimation the contributions of Doctor Langley to the science of aerial locomotion, hereby expresses to him its sincerest appreciation of his labors as a pioneer in this important and complex science; and
Be it further resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution and to Doctor Langley.
ELECTION OF A SUCCESSOR TO THE LATE SECRETARY LANGLEY.
May 16, 1906, was fixed by the Board as the date for a special meet- ing for the election of a Secretary.
SPECIAL MEETING OF MAY 16, 1906.
Present: Mr. Chief Justice Fuller (Chancellor) in the chair; the Vice-President, Mr. Fairbanks, Senator S. M. Cullom, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Senator A. O. Bacon, Representative R. R. Hitt, Rep- resentative Robert Adams, jr., Representative W. M. Howard, Dr. J. B. Angell, Dr. Andrew D. White, the Hon. J. B. Henderson, the Hon. Richard Olney, the Hon. George Gray, and Dr. A. Graham Bell.
The Chancellor stated that the meeting had been called by the action of the Board at its last meeting for the purpose of electing a successor to Secretary Langley. The Board then went into execu- tive session, Judge Gray acting as Secretary.
DONATION OF MR. S. P. LANGLEY’S MEDALS AND TOKENS.
The Chancellor read the following memorandum from the Acting Secretary :
IT am sure you will consider it of interest to announce to the Board of Regents that the heirs of the late Secretary Langley have presented to the Smithsonian Institution all of the medals and other tokens received by Mr. Langley in recogni- tion of his contributions to the advancement of knowledge. Among these are gold medals from the Royal Society of London, the Institute of France, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
It is proposed to assemble these, together with some of the earlier pieces of apparatus with which Mr. Langley began his memorable observations on the physics of the sun, in a case in the National Museum, alongside of those dedicated to the memory of Professor Henry and Professor Baird.
ELECTION OF A SECRETARY.
The question of the election of a Secretary was then taken up, and, after discussion, it was “moved by the Vice-President that the election of a Secretary be postponed to the next regular meeting of the Board.” So voted.
REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
For THE YEAR ENpDING JUNE-30, 1906.
To the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution:
Your executive committee respectfully submits the following report in relation to the funds, receipts, and disbursements of the Insti- tution and the disbursement of the appropriations by Congress for the National Museum, the International Exchanges, the Bureau of American Ethnology, the National Zoological Park, and the Astro- physical Observatory for the year ending June 30, 1906, and balances of previous appropriations.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
Condition of the fund July 1, 1906.
The permanent fund of the Institution and the sources from which it has been derived are as follows:
DEPOSITED IN THE TREASURY OF THE UNITED STATES.
BEC UESErOt a SI TUNSO Tyee 64 gate ee ee ee $515, 169. 00 Residuary lacacysor Smithson 1867222 = ee 26, 210. 63 DepOsit from tsuvings sof income. I8Gfe==— "= 2s eee ss ee 108, 620. 37 Bequestiot James Hamilton? 1S fo2s2 2 = $1, 000. 00 Accumulated interest on Hamilton fund, 1895__________ 1, 000. 00 a 2, 000. 00 Bequesicot Simieon! EaneligiSSO sas = aoe a ee ee ee 500. 00 Deposits from proceeds of sale of bonds, 1881_____-___-___________- 51, 500. 00 GiltoOf hnOmasyG-) FOOL KINS wl Soles 2s Se ee eee 200, 000. 00 Part of residuary legacy of Thomas G. Hodgkins, 1 SO 8, 000. 00 DEPOSIE MLOMeESAVInES "OL INCOME)? 190322. 222s sen ee ee es 25, 000. 00 Total amount of fund in the United States Treasury_______ 937, 000. 00
HELD AT THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
Registered and guaranteed bonds of the West Shore Railroad Com- pany pact of lesicy, oft homas! G, Hogrkine== 2 Ss 42, 000. 00
Totlempernianent dwn =— o> = fee a ee a 979, 000. 00
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XXIV REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
That part of the fund deposited in the Treasury of the United States bears interest at 6 per cent per annum, under the provisions of the act of August 10, 1846, organizing the Institution, and an act of Congress approved March 12, 1894. The rate of interest on the West Shore Railroad bonds is 4 per cent per annum.
By the final settlement of the estate of the late Thomas G. Hodg- kins during the past year the Institution received, in May, 1906, the balance of the residuary legacy left by this benefactor. It amounted to $7,850, in the form of registered bonds of the United States, now recorded in the name of the Smithsonian Institution, and held subject to the order of the Board of Regents. Interest had accumulated on these bonds to the amount of $3,225.55, which sum was paid in cash and deposited in the United States Treasury to the credit of the cur- rent account of the Institution.
Statement of receipts and disbursements from July 1, 1905, to June 30, 1906.
RECEIPTS. Cash on deposit in the United States Treasury July 1, 1905_________ $5, 153. 92 Interest on fund deposited in the United States Treasury to July 1, 1905__________ $28, 110. 00 Interest on fund deposited in the United States Treasury to January 1, 1906_______ 28, 110. 00
$56, 220. 00 Interest on West Shore Railroad bonds to January 1,
SLOG): pees = eee ER Seemed Cae PEN. Le Oe oa 1, 6SO. 00 Accumulated interest on Hodgkins residuary legacy_____ By, LRA), YD Real-estate rentals, Avery bequest____.________________ 440. 41 Repayments, cash from sale of publications, ete_________ 6, O96. 43
67, 662. 39 RO tal=Treceip tse Saks a Ts See 14, SING, Bl
DISBURSEMENTS.
suildings, care and repairs_______ Se oe eo TA A OO esi
MOMS EME) THURS So ES Oh ee 368. 87 General expenses: Salaries ee eee ob kee Abal te ois, Ue BLM $15, 615. 28 Meetings ______ Base See er ee 699. 20 Stationery; = ae SE 568. SO HOStag emai datele csc saan en 279. O09 HRSA a) cee oe eam, see rs Meer eee ed te vs 139. 66 incidentals: =< CLS: PIES he eee 3, 316. 17
20, 618. 20 Library : Purchase of books, binding, ete __________ 826. 00
SS Dares ee A EO ee OF 1 ce eee 1, 193. 00 ———— 2,019.00
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Publications and their distribution:
Contributions to knowledge______________ $73. 06
TCDOLLS sean = we ere ame Se oe ee 482. 02
Miscellaneous collections ___-_____________ 5, 094. 90
Bubkcationesuppliess A822! 28 oe 58. 37
Seer see ek cere eens 9 ak 6, 319. 00
— ———$12, 027. 35 ESplOrahions sand! sesearenes=— ae ae Tee ee 1, O54. 66 Hodgkins specific fund :
Researches and publications 2-2-2. 2 e 3, 906. 66 Invernationall exchangsege—* -2- 2 ee eee eS 2, 110. 78 International Catalogue of Scientific Literature:
Silani@Sye 22 2 2S ee 2 eee ae ee 3, 760. 34
SHU DLW CS ese ee a Bee 153. 38
er oie ee NSEC) ee ee ee ae ee ee 1, 069. 82 Obituary expenses, Secretary Langley _________ a i ee 1, OSO. 81
EST Sat ative eee ee er ee ee ee ee 10, 000. 00 SS RS IS
Balance June 30, 1906, deposited with the United States Treas- Wire Se ee Ce bee ee Se ee ee ee ae ee ee ane ea 10, 184. 13
All moneys received by the Smithsonian Institution from interest, sales, refunding of moneys temporarily advanced, or otherwise, are deposited with the Treasurer of the United States to the credit of the Institution, and all payments are made by checks signed by the Secretary.
Your committee also presents the following statements in regard to the appropriations and expenditures for objects intrusted by Con- gress to the care of the Smithsonian Institution, based on expendi- tures by the disbursing agent and audited by the Auditor for the State and other Departments.
Detailed statement of disbursements from appropriations committed by Congress to the care of the Smithsonian Institution for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906, and from balances of former years.
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1906. RECEIPTS.
Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906: “For expenses of the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaris or compensation of all necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and peri- odicalse (Sundin, cCiviltact Marches, 190s) 252 ee ee $28, SOO. 00
DISBURSEMENTS. Salaries or compensation :
1 assistant secretary, at $225___.________ $2, 700. 00 iRclenicwaie yi) 0 a= =e ee ee 1, 800. 00
PAPC ORICS es clitcar piled 5 nek meee ea PS ed 1, 750. 00
Keil REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Salaries or compensations—Continued.
fclerk 3a $116:6622 2-22 ee $1, 399. 92
2 Clerks + at. S00 ao oe 1, 886. 66
imclerk sat S102 see ee eee 835. 34
fe clerk ail: S652 25—-e nes Sen ee ee 780. 00
1 stenographer, at $110 and $125________ 1, 402. 50
iecarpenter at: p01. eee 84. 93
AP WOLKMA Vatu (Se = eee ee ee 840. 00
IR PACKEE ats oo ee eee ee ee 512. 42
ieskilled) laborer. at fs02 40. 00
1 skilled laborer, at $45 and $55_________ 140. 75
1 messenger, at $30 and $35__________-__ 387. 50
2 messenger DOYS, dt 20-2 267. 50
1 messenger boy, at $20 and $25______-_- 267. 50
ieacent at SO6:004——- == eee 800. 00
ieavent ateplos. s-s ae a eee 180. 00
AS CIG aie eee ee eee ee 900. OO Motalisalaries om compensations .— === =a $16, 975. 02
General expenses:
JEXOYO eS) see a ee ee ee 76. 15
IB OXCS Steen Se. Se Se eS 1, 319. 00
Hireignt Cte <2 2s ob ee eS 8, 503. 6!
MNCL R ee a ee ee 14. 05
Postage ie hey st hou st 29s ine le Re ee 400. 00
Srpples electricity. cte2—-— 299. 03
Stationery: -ciC@== == ee eee 307. 20
10, 919. 03
Total GdiSbursements S52 ss ree ee ee ne ee $27, 894. 05 Balance July 1, 1906, to meet outstanding liabilities_________ 905. 95
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1905.
Balance July 1.1905, ‘as per’ last report eee $4, 513. 95 DISBURSEMENTS. Salaries: lvagent ath Sipe 2) ee ee eee $450. 00 ivagent.) at -$66;66% = =e ee 400. 00 agent ate) 2 = ee 90. OO otal sSalaries = ess = 232 ee ee eee $940. 00 General expenses: Mreight. .etem = = ei ea A ee 2, 676. 49 IBORCS Ss os Sb eo ee 442.50 MMe a2 Se ser Fee Lee ee 29. 50 iehtin eves a ee ee a ee 30. 94 Miscellaneous supplies —_ = 104. 35 Stationery, books, printing, etec___________ 290. 11
———— ay dete!
Balance July 1) 19062 eee ioe eee 0. 06
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INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1904. Balance Gules Loa er IaAst RepORts= = 9 2 ee $10. OS
Balance carried -under provisions of Revised Statutes, section 3090, by the Treasury Department, to the credit of the surplus fund, June 30, 1906.
AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1906. RECEIPTS.
Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906: “For continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, in- cluding salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $40,000, of which sum not exceeding $1,500 may be used for rent of building” (Sundry civileacrenlarchio+ 1OOR) =e a ee Se ee $40, 000. 00
DISBURSEMENTS. Salaries or compensation :
NECHICi a binacoo: seas ae ns 2 ee SSS OOONOG Pen ROlLOSISteat ene Ones ee eee ee 3, OOO. OO MeeEnnoOlocist at S200. 22-2" Se eee 2, 400. 00 Wethnolocist-cat $2002 2 = 2, 400. 00 IPERHNOLOLISt aio oo = a ee 1, 599. 96 JeCLINOLOAISt etl wilson ee ee 1, 599. 96 PReWINOLOSIStS. athlete ee ee 3, OOO. 00 PHNUStrAtOr, at) o166.68 2, 000. O4 MGLCT Kwa ios ee a ae 375. OO IWRECHCOLORISE Ab plUQS= === ees ee ae 450. 00 ReCITOR salts pl OOE a eee ee eee Ee 443. 33 1 editor and compiler, at $100___________ 356. 67 Leneadeclenks at e100 S22. ne 1, 200. 00 PEC] CUES melita pil ere ee age ee 2, 400. 00 1 stenographer and typewriter, at $100__ SOG. 67 iMiEvpewinitenr: Mie sOb.=s 2.2.22 2 Se see SI 637. OO ItERDe WEIR vat po0L = oe ea ee 250. 00 iiskuledwaborer- at S60222 25). 2s 720. 00 I SMESSEN en sah hop sae 8 ae ek 660. OO Messen Sei diy pol ease ee 501. 67 [PADOTET: cath pA pws nee Otome ees 540. 00 2 WaADOFeLS al ol. 50) per adaye =e = 120. 75 i aborerneatapl.2oy pel Gaye === 37. 50 iwlaborereatcoioper day.) ==. 1. 50 Rotali salaries orsconipensation= = a= ae $29, 500. O1
General expenses : Books, binding, ete
Drawines maps etCs=— = ee 179. 95 Le CERIC type tees re ee Oe 3800. 71 Breishies hawling ete. se ae 218. 52 ES UST tytn eee es a Se Ee ee ee 219; il IWIEKO DEE OPS ee Se ee ee oe eee 1, 714. 76
NMiscellanecousi = = n= = ee 191. 36
XXVIII REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
General expenses—Continued.
Postage, telephone, and telegraph__-~_~~ $132. 70 Vent alles ee ee ee 1, 500. 00 Specialisenvi cesa= = ee ee S225 SDE CIMET Sii Ss = eae a ee SS oe 605. 00 Stavionerny. == ee fate oe ee eee 530. 44 Sup piles! = ares ee ees 2 eee 494, 09 Travel and! eld vexpenses asa ee ee 1, 704. 54
$9, 877. 71
Total ediSbursements eas 2 es ee ee
Balance July 1, 1906, to meet outstanding liabilities____-___
AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1905.
Balancersuliv ds 1905s ase pers last epOnts === a
DISBURSEMENTS.
__ $643. 26
eh ae Sena te te oe ee nae $59. 57 SMUT tee ee eS Pe a ee ee ee 10. OT GTN Cae OE ae Pe ee ee eee 83. 40 INGISGCIIAMNECOUS = 62-5. Se ene ee ae i eee ees TY, (395) Rosie telephone; sand stele eu ai} ee ee ee 67. 48 emis sae MIE, TE eo eS eee 125. 00 SDECIAlk SCRVIGES Het... Be Ss 2 eee ee oe eee ee 26. 69 Staionenvye ibOOkG-CiCs = ss a se ee 130. 56 DS TUIIBOTO IL SS rte gr ps ee a A ee Bo WY) iramely-and: tel dice xpenSes. ==" 92) 2 ae ee ee eee 45. 60 otal rdishursementS2 =.= -- ee ee ee ee eee 638. 86 Balance July 1, 1906, to meet outstanding liabilities_____________ 4. 40
AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1904.
Blanes Able al IGOR ISS Gore WB Isie Teejorne ree $75. TO DISBURSEMENTS.
JR EYEN <2) 0 i ee ee ng etsy OMe Shee a ee eek ee tT a eal ee a oe ge Te (BU
STEEN CY Go pane meee Rees pe er ie a ee ae eee De ee 68. 03
Balance carried under provisions of Revised Statutes, section 3090, by the Treasury Department, to the credit of the surplus fund, June 30, 1906.
ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY, SMITHSONIAN (UNSTITUTION,
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 39, 1906: “For maintenance of Astrophysical Observatory, under the direc- tion of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assist- ants, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, printing and pub- lishing results of researches, not exceeding 1,500 copies, repairs and alterations of buildings, and miscellaneous expenses, $15,000 ” (sundry civil act, March 38, 1905)
1906.
$15, 000. 00
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DISBURSEMENTS. Salaries or compensation :
[PaO ate ne te oe ee $2, 700. 00 LIUMOSVASSIStAME edb. plo = se ae 1, S00. 00 Iclerkeeate piezo so) = eer Se eke 125. 00 1 stenographer, at $116.66 ______________ il, atau, ARCOM ULC aie hSe. see a 477. 76 1 photographie assistant, at $70_________ 210. 00 IFDOLOMELELCASSIStaIt, ue PoOm = == = 111. 67 ihmessenser boyeradh woOs === == 360. 0O 1 instrument maker, at $120 and $100____ 1, 220. 00 eSioledeaboOrer an OQ ee eee 50. 00 ICALDCNCCR Ak pol = es Se LBS, ONT HESIolled el aborers ates ee ee ee 43. 99 IphiTmenlameneit. SOO 2 = ee ee ee See TO4. OO 1 electrician, at $4 per day_—__-___- 24. OO HEPAT VAs Pel Gays. 2822) a eee 18. 00 (Ghee alt. Say Del Cay =a. we Soe 14. 00 IeCleaNneErate sles Wer Ceiye = = ae see oe 163. 75 ie Cleaner waite silk Peeve se eae eee 11. 00 Total salaries or compensation_____-___--_______ $9, 6118. 05 General expenses : IN) alse See ee ee eee eee ee Ts) 80 Bookseand: Dindinges= 2 ee. eee 97. 92 CUS OC ees aut & er hae ae Bo FE Ex 28. 40 Drawninos tables: eles = = 22 - Se = eee 175. 00 HIGEIRIGitvT eis. Clea 522. ele 209. 15 Ueno eS Re i Se Se a 70. 20 RARER eters Se k= eee Se es 9, OO Vid Jil [QVC AR ep 6 a a a ed eee sleet Postage, telephone, and telegraph ________ 7. 92 SELION Cygne oe ee ee ee oe 58. 3 Supplies, chemicals, tools, ete_____--_--_- 611. 69 Travel-and field’ expenses=——2 === 5 === G57. 61 ————— 3,135. 87 INOTAIGISHUESeMents Bae eee se ee eS ee aoa 2 Le toes Balance July 1, 1906, to meet outstanding liabilities_________ 2, 246.
ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1905.
Balancersuly: lem OOb ass per lasiten COR. = = =e eee ee $4, 188.
DISBURSEMENTS. Salaries :
1 bolometric assistant, at $50 per month______________ $25. OO General expenses :
JNO) OF G61 Cie ee So ee ee eee Se. SU es 1, 154. 92
SUL GGn oneness Se ee Te ee eee 38. 50
RUS In rer ee ee Peres es eee a ee ee 7.88
Nit pees eee re eee Oe ee ee ee 90. 00
SUTIN Clee eee ee ee ee pee Se eee Se 537. 88
Miscellaneous supplies, chemicals, tools, ete___-_______ 307. 73
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General expenses—Continued.
Postage, telephone, and telegraph _____-______________ $3. 46 Special (S@LviCes =a = a a ee 105. 00 Stationery, books, 'et¢==— =. =. 2 os SS 298. SO Travel, fieldsexpenses; ete*-_—= -- = _ === === = ee eee 1, 596. 96 (otal disbursements: —-_-s. -2 2 2s eee ee ee $4, 166. 13 Balance July 1, 1906, to meet outstanding liabilities__________ 22. 39
ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1904. Balancesduly: tel G055 aS) pets laste Ort ae ee het e)2
Balance carried, under provisions of Revised Statutes, section 3090, by the Treasury Department to the credit of the surplus fund June 30, 1906.
PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS, NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1906. RECEIPTS.
Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 50, 1906: “For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or com- pensation of all necessary employees, and all other necessary ex- penses, $180,000, of which sum $5,500 may be used for necessary drawings and illustrations for publications of the National Mu- Sen. (Sundry ebvallacthot Mars 3.1009) = 25-2 ae ee $180,000.00
DISBURSEMENTS.
Salaries or compensation______-__________ $163, 002. 81 Specialeservices=222 2 352 es 1, 199: 01 Total salariessandeSservicess 222. = === aa $164, 201. 82
Miscellaneous :
Drawings and illustrations________-_ 1, 991. 98
Breicht andy Gartaces. = ee 1, 349. 78
SPECIMENS) os wes Se No ee eer 886. 99
Stationery (222-222 ees 1, 5382. 62
SUD plies we = 22 2s ee 5, 003. 71
Traveling .expenses=—— === eee 874. 40 otal miscellancous2===-- == -— =e eee 11, 639. 48 otal disbursements: 233.2 3-3 ee eee 175, 841. 30 Balance July 1, 1906, to meet outstanding liabilities_________ 4, 158. TO
Analysis of disbursements for salaries or compensation.
Scientific and administrative staff:
imassistantesecretany.. al po0G00.. eee $3, 099. 96 1 administrative assistant, at $291.66________ 3, 499. 92 3 NEACIEUPALOLS Ab peolAbO Ss = eee 10, 499. 76 associate CULALOL ab 22002... 2 = Se 2, 400. 00
A CULALGES Wala cOU == aoe = AR ee ee 4, 800. 00
REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Scientific and administrative staff—Continued.
He CUT LOT pet g coil RO eee Se ee ee $1, 200. AT ASSISTANTACULALOES oie Oe = 2 - e 7, 200. DB ASSISTAMERCULATOES eatimilicecco ss = ee 3, 199. PPASSIStANEACHLALOPS. Ab pula) oo. se 1, 500. IASSIStAM PECULACOES RL oO LeO eS ce 1, 440. PASSISEADE, CURALOLS. itcedlG.662_- — 22 2, 799. 4 JassistaniyCuraors.: at, S100: = = 22 4, 200. issecond assistant ieurator, at SlO0L= ==) 2 aaa bey licassistant, Curator, tisee:50-—- = = 999. 1GCMeHOlGivisiony tb lOO 2-2 2 eee See 2, 400. Th SPECS DRO ey Ser AS aU fae ee nee ea 2, 004. imeditorialeassistant, at ploa-co—- = oe 1, 033. WEEE IS a Ecotec ee 2 oS Eee 2, 004. IkGishursine, agent: “Ai pilsol = 2 2) ee ee 1, 500. i assistant Uprarians at ploo.oo. = 1, 599. ee CL te Ota Dil CM) eee we See ar ue es Ae ea 840. Pa EEE O ASS P21 Bf Nota ca che i ae eee ce eee 1, 874. CULL Sgr cl bere hed sees Soe pee chs ee eS Ee a, 95: Seo ICS rel eA OU ee eas oe oe en eee ee ee 1, 680. ay EEK ES OPT Reats 3-5 0 eae ee es See Seat ft a ee ee CR 1, 799. Ogeechee Serene et Ee WA Cee 540. IGASSistait, clindosDel Oa yeaa ae ee ee ee 8 87. Preparators : ie puotoecrapher. atin ose ee ee 2, 100. 1 photographer’s assistant, at $50 PRC aE eS Oe AN 250. (eGhieta taxi CLM Sia it wkeo sae ee Se 1, 500. Meee MIGeLNISte ca tep le ea ee ee 1, 200. eta Germist wate 22-8 = a ee ee ee 720. eta ermist Apprentice, ab pads —— 299. HA STARE CH Le Testes epi k OM) ea tne a re ee ee ee. 1, 100. NMOSTCOLO SIS is ata nO seer a ee ee 1, OSO. LBpreparaormnats-pill Oy ee a 2 ee 1500! (ENLePaALalOk pb gue sea ne ee See ee ee ee ee 1, 200. PBOLCMALACOUS tabi ole ee eS a ee eee 2, 019. DEULCVULALOLS NOs = oe eee ee Se 1iGLS: iSpreparatonwa: 50 cents per houri222 2 516. HE PLOV AR ACO MAE OO pe ae ae a ee a Le 960. i “prepaLratorpab pila. 2-222. 2585 SS as Bea aS SRE PLE PAL ALO mabe oO ee ee oe 660. Le Prep Anat ea up eye ees ee ee ee 540. TS pPreparacone sates 0 Set ew Sel eee 480. PPLE PAL alo Te bop oe ee ess es Se 300. IASSIStanispreparatony ain pte 2 Se 538. ef CUSTOM Tala aiby nee a ee ee ee 287. ferclassitien, ates! OOS. = ae a ee ee 1, 200. 1PECOTGEIy aire yO == wees se ee ee eS 720. DE CALALOLIELSs ln pO = eee ens ek 870. CAT ALOSUET REM he) =e ate eee eee 522. So CaLAlorMersiiatsin oe oe 22 oe ee ah ee 335% itecathlocuercat ol Der Cays =. 2 a ee ee 18. MEEK EE VAG 251 DCL Cayenne a nae eens eo Ee 15.
92 00 00 84 00 67
00
SSS SSS SSS SSS SS SSSSSSSESSES
for) ie)
XXXI
$67, 123. 39
23, 379. 71
XXXII REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTER
Clerical staff :
jl tana, (Cladkee eyp sss oe ee ee $1, 500. 00 il jomojoereiy Clevals, fue GINO) ual SHO 1, 135. 00 il Goemment @ledk, Mil MH eee ee eects eee 660. 00 tl CSS el heer BOS Pe See ge ee ee Se ee 750. 00 TY SCO ele ts 3 OL og a ae Nr 1, 380. 00 a beet (rel geet eet 0) 0 |e renal st Ree Se ee a ee 1, 200. 00 MCL OTIGS Rtas (a= 2 Ane a ge eres ee ee hones ee 6, 297. 50 ME Cl Ore erat nh 10) eee esp ee ee ea 812. 00 AReCleTIES* aie nO) ee ee er ee os So ee es 2, 040. 00 £24 OMEN a teSIS Col Ia) een eee no a oe ee eee Pe Se Se oa 1, 190. 00 ClO eae ho ook 2 a> ee eee ee ee ee ee 420. 00 il leak ung! wyoewielier, aie Hyp 900. 00 il Geek Aine! jorseRneaOE, Ble tk = : 720. 00 STEN OST AME ara ey ee eee ee wen ee ee ee ree 2, 100. 00 iestenoorapher ate $9022 252s 65-2 Lae eee 1, O74. 00 TL SeTAYO ARAN] OUIES Cle bers ye ey ee 999. 96 1 stenographer and typewriter, at $90 and $100_______ 1,180.00 1 stenographer and typewriter, at $83.33____________ 166. 66 1 stenographer and typewriter, at $75-___-__________ 75. OO 3 stenographers and typewriters, at $60_____________ 1, 272. 00 5 stenographers and typewriters, at $50_____________ 969. 16 Pe iYPEWRLER Abi eSb= 2 = eee a. 2 a eee 1, 000. 17 AV EW RIEL, MA bot s= = 8a ee Pe oS ee ee 900. 00 EVE WRleR WAT SOOs oo 2 a es oe ee 712. 00 Shy PCWRILEE nal OHO L = 22 — wee wk eS eee eae ee 193. 33 it |SOuRINICAl ASSISiAiO, Ge S77 215. 00 1 loxoyeuakeaill Ere, Fane OSGi ea INT, BO I joougnnnezll elec, ehr Ghilsa0) joer Clyne 27. 00 OMIMESSENSENS | dit 1402222. a a Se 800. 00 DEM ESSENLELS altho waa ae ee ee ee oe 422. 92 A PIMmeSSeN era alt ho Oe aes eee a ee Sn eee es ee 60. 00 SMNeSSEN ers sat Noe = 9 eee eee eee 423. 83 5
MVESSEN SETS aire eee Se eS 447. 50
Buildings and labor:
I CHOU Oe “yee, elie GW 1, 080. 00 2 IeuiOmeows CHE WECM, Bie SSL 2 1, 680. 00 aL Peeves CHINN ENT pre tig gs Oe) a ees ree 780. 00 oes Vea i ETN ES ke Eos Go) lee ve 15, 044. 00 Zevwealehimen ation) === —— == Cele Bye ear eee 550. 00 eS eneralle Oem aims ate piles 2s () meee ee 1, 184. 17 IME OREM EN heh ae Se ae oe ee a ee es eee 150. 00 imcarpentercwat SOl = 226 ale ee ee eee 57. 64 IEWOtkKMaAn Sate hoOl l= feos Ss). ee ee ee ee 598. 33 Ski ed Valores ait yng eee ees ere ae 660. OO 5) skilled Waborerss ate S50 22 = ee ee ee is, Oil lgsicilled Waborer aig h4 oe Sas eee ee eee 270. 00 DISK Ed LlabOners, ain pte. B= ee ee ee ree 465. 33 SSK ledgMaborer sate nope ae ee =e eee eee pee 302. 50 SESIMLEG MAD ORES) itech 2 ee = WA Oash os
3 Skilled laborers; at $1.50! per day == ae 605. 25
$32, 160. 53
REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. XXXII
Buildings and labor—Continued.
1 skilled laborer, at $1 per day_____________________ $11. 50 Se 1classined Waborers, at S42 = ee ee 1, 585. 40 3 Classined laborers; at $4005 ee 1, O85. 00 i elassitied laborer, at S402" 20 eee 280. 00 ADORE Gre Hike wap ee eee e EE eee eo ee 6, 606. 82 mela ORE Terabe nse) ene eee Len eae ee ies PS 420. 00 Pi apOrerss ab sl 50 per Gay. = 2 Ss ets 891. 69 INIA HOrer Aten eo per day. 22-292) 2 2 eee bs Fa 6. 25 SUIAWOLELS sali ersGaya = 2 2 eee ee 1S 247459 esheets y amen See ee oe ee Re 832. 00 TP ACLEN GANT sates AONpen Cay == 22 = = =e 4 a 227. 50 1ORClGANCES Wath ehonss = eee eee 2, 959. 71
$40, 839. 18
ROT Esa aRiesTGl COMpPCUSa LONE =5 ae ee A ee 163, 002. 81 PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS, NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1905. RECEIPTS.
Balancerauly do1505. asi per dast neport._- 9 -=-— = 2s see ek $6, 645. 34
DISBURSEMENTS.
Drains sean UIStatiOns a. — aes ee ee ee ee $250. 6 reonieamMumeatta re ses = eee” EE ee ee 812. 28 SAAMeS Ore COMlpPCO Sat OMe =.= ts See See 6. 67 We Glall sSeihyi COS ee eo teats i ee 959. 64 NY OY SXCUECA EN NS ea DN a ea eee 437. 58 SOOM SS 2 Se ee a Soe ee ee ee ee 652. 36 SSUE(O) ORS) Se eae oe ee eee PG) rave limo exenses:= kn ses ee le A ee 727. 18 EO CaCI SW UGSCM CICS: 28 voor sees Lee ene Sree oe ee 6, OTA. 04 Balance July 1, 1906, to meet outstanding liabilities__._______ 571. 30
PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS, NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1904.
RECEIPTS. Balance uly it005) as per last repotie === 82) = ee $198. 99 DISBURSEMENTS. EEC ELS Ne am ACA bere OR ee See eS ee ee $68. 13 SPCC SCLVICOS 2am meee. a rere» ene, SEs ee ee eee ee 120. 00 ROTA GISHDUESeNentS 22 = Ee oe WS a ee 188. 13 ISCW EM OQer Lt? eee SN ee ee a ee ee eee eee a5 oe ee 10. 86
Balance carried, under provisions of Revised Statutes, section 3090, by the Treasury Department, to the credit of the surplus fund, June 30, 1905.
sM 1906——1II
KX XIV REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. FURNITURE AND FIXTURES, NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1906. RECEIPTS,
Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906: “Wor cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensation of all necessary em- MOGs” (Katha, Gill per Weyren &, 105). = $
bo
DISBURSEMENTS.
2, 500. 00
SHALTES MOL COMM CIS altel ON ee eee $11, 563. 09 SPeCalSehivil Cesena eee Se ets 333i, aS Motalesal Aries vain Gexsernvil CCSe ee $11, 596. 34 MiscelManeous : CASCSIStOnAS Cres ee = ae ee ane 1, 745. 71 Cloth eotion etes=2 2. eee 343. 71 DRAW EESS tGAySy WOKCSas 2 eee =, eee 2, 618. 86 IO RAW INES Pre a ee ee 18. OO Glassen eee ae = ee Se ee 168. SO GlassmaAquanhihO a. 22-2. 5a eee 6. 25 ABO WARG rs a8) Sa See ES 53. 92 JGR YS) Panes = ee See ee eee 690. 56 OMCesnuEnibureses= = ae ae ree il, WOES, OS AMES OLS DEUS CS ale UC mae en ee a 226. 30 PAR 22 peas eae ao a eee ae 24. 00 Rubber earher cor eee ee 336. 80 Slaten sos 22 ase Fs eae ae Seer ee 157. 42 ROO) See oe = a 181. 00 CUTE GCS) Us, Sa gy a er 30. 8O WYN Da CO i re pera ee eile 50) MoraleniScellanecOus == ee eee 8, 246. 68 TRO GAN CNS ONES TIN Ta tS ee neLcee ie Sees 19, 843. 02 3alance July 1, 1906, to meet outstanding liabilities__________ 2, 656. 98 Analysis of disbursements for salaries or compensation. i] Syby pevevayeroVeevaye, fie onion $999. 96 Me CLE eel te eee gh ee eee Sete, eee Baas 1, 320. 00 HeShoOprioremian, at: 90e 2 es = oe ee ee eee 1, O8O. 00 APCALDeNters | ab PObe= 2a. 2 = Sa eee ees 3h Oilae SO) PL) LUO Sag el yeep me ee = ore a et in ee al oe il, OS), OR ELAR YANN STW EUUEE SRC I a a ee ee 840. 00 (iF pavuinterishelpervat Shi sa ns oe ee 660. 00 ASkilled laborer, cat PillOQ0 e223 eS a es ee es Bo 550. 00 AGSIcilled laborer vat'S 6522-5 ok 28 ae ee 780. OO eslkilledwaborer ak S5p-2-0 = Se ee ee 550. OO Pe wOrlontal, ail boom =S2 2 Se = Ee ee ge eee 660. 00 ANON! SENIENNES Ole Gonjaengnnonml 11, 563. 09
REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. XXXV FURNITURE AND FIXTURES, NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1905. RECEIPTS. Balances uly, 1905. as per Tash neport222 == $2, 769. 99
DISBURSEMENTS.
Miscellaneous :
ClOBH COLON tye 1G rest o> Be pen None e 2 ee ee $79. 20
IDTANVELS cba Vis DORCS se) se 23 fee oe eases 728. 75
GAMES Scan OSs elCe= =e ee are eee ee 5. 00
TTR VA ese eee ee ee ee eens ee i Eo 33. 6
Beatheror ib bermCOR Ke = = ee a5 2 Pe ee a 4. 50
LEON aa Oye) eS we ety e 5 BPE ed eae ea IEE got ee oe ee ee ee 87. 16
Oficesandyhally hunni tines = aoe aes ae ee 225. 3(
LEER AY OSH. COT] Smee Se os SRS peas eI eR id oe Seer ey Se eee 13. 85
OURS Sls Nk See ee es Se er ee 2 Se ee 9. 30
SS CORA GO CAS CS a= ae ee es ee 863. 25
StruGhiralesteeliworke 2 92 ote ee eee ee 98. 84
ERGY OY IST C9 (C: = ee e Sie i eas De a ee ae Ne ee 432. 55 MOtAGISHULSEMENTS! 2 See a ee wae ee Pee ee ee 2 68s Balance, July 1, 1906, to meet outstanding liabilities__________ 88. 68
FURNITURE AND FIXTURES, NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1904.
RECEIPTS. Balance July 1.1905, as per last report___<=-—_.-—_- = 2 eS $6. 94 DISBURSEMENTS. DT SO UES CN Espen ee ee eee Se ee ee ee ee None, Saal Sn) Come es eee Se en ee ee age ee Se es hl eee PN a ey a 6. 94
Balance carried, under provisions of Revised Statutes, section 3090, by the Treasury Department to the credit of the surplus fund June 30, 1906.
HEATING AND LIGHTING, NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1906. RECEIPTS.
Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906: “For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service for the National Museum” (sundry civil act, Mair elise 3 29 OO) 0)) te Bile ere en ee Se A oo et $18, 000. 00
Salaries or compensa tiona= == se $8, 267. 34 Specialy Servi Ces uee eis et es ee Bes 80. 50 Motalmisalariesrand services sts. 22 seo 8 ee $8, 347. 84
Miscellaneous:
AGVeGUISIN Ca se et ee ey ay oe ae 13. 95 CoalandewOo0d = 2 ee 4, 812. 70 Blectrical supplies =— = ee ee 343. 97
LC CERI Cb yiee = oe ee ee ee 1, 605. 44
XXXVI REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Miscellaneous—Continued.
(CGS aS Se eee ee ee $568. 20 HeahinessUppli¢s== == === =—) saa Ble TE TReWHE Ore fell yosANs ee a 110. 00 Melesram Shs a Se eee ES eer 14. 57 Melephones "= s=2 2s 2 ee 413. 85 Motalsamiscellancous! ee. =S2—— ==. = ee eee ee $8, 255. 41 DRG Cale CLUS WME STING tise ee = mee ae eee oe ee ee $16, 603. 25 Balance July 1, 1906, to meet outstanding liabilities_________ 1, 396. 75 Analysis of disbursements for salaries or compensation. HOTU SAT CET eel bsg pil ys) ee oe ware eee dee ee $1, 500. 00 detelephoneroperator cat Sis. ae a ee eee 840. 00 MLE LED MOM ESTO MELA OLS eects ep ille sy (iio CTs Cl ei ees eee 39. OO im@elechr Ciamtate $4 pens (ay aes se ae ta. Se pe Bee ae ee 100. 00 RBA TIN ANE Ate GO) sete aoe is et ee ee i ee ee 720. 00 eb Acksnalth sete s GO ners tins es ae he 2 ee ee See eee 720. 00 ES Team relat po OMe ween 2s a a a ee ee 913. 34. TS plUMpersraASsIstant: atspGo = a= as ee ee ee 780. 00 deSkled laborers at ol002 = ee ee ee eS ee 600. OO eS kMledmlanoOrercaik poOe =e = alt 2 8 es ee ee 920. 00 ieSkilled: Waboner, tabs $602.-2— Saas a SD ee ee ee 120. 00 He ADORE. Ate p4OManG: S45 2= 2 ee ee ee ee 442. 00 i laborer. cat $40 ands $452 == = = ae 2 SS ee ee ee 519. 00 NMI ORE wat 4h 2a ee See os ss as Pe ee eee 54. 00 Motalesalariess Or COMP EMS alo Tle eee eee er ee 8, 267. 34 HEATING AND LIGHTING, NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1905. RECEIPTS. Balance Julysie 1905; as per lastire porte $1, 469. 40 DISBURSEMENTS. Woalvand/pwood Se 22 ee ee ee, Be eee Be a eee $5. 90 Electricalisupplies| 422-22. = se eee 338. 46 Electricity. Ase 92 ee el ee 303. 22 OASIS oc SA al Ef ee 41. 20 ELE AGM SY ISTP YO CS a eS ee ine ae eo pee 330. 59 FREME ACAD ORES: = .- te) FEN sel ee ae ee 30. 00 Special services: =. <2 = he Ae eee 113. 38 UNE ESEA 0 Se eee eB ee aia (7 pRelephonwes! =: 2" Sa 2 ee eS ee ee eee 186. 90 ERO Cea «CLUS TUITE CaO rs Sa a a 1, 388. 38 Balance July 1, 1906, to meet outstanding liabilities___________ 81. 02
Balance, July 1, 1905, as per last report
HEATING AND LIGHTING, NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1904.
RECEIPTS.
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REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. AXXXVII
DISBURSEMENTS. ESTSTSUTISS INVENT sg er ee ne eee ee ee ee None, FEES SUL ET Cee eae ae md ee a spe on ee $54. 48
Balance carried, under provisions of the Revised Statutes, section 3090, by the Treasury Department, to the credit of the surplus fund, June 30, 1906. POSTAGE, NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1906. RECEIPTS. Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906: “For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum an (Sundryscivill act = Marehss,, 1905) see =e ee $500. 00 DISBURSEMENTS. MOLRDOStASeEStaMp Se ans CALOS aes ees ae rene ee ee 500, 00 PRINTING AND BINDING, NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1906. RECEIPTS. Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906: “For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks, and for the ‘ Bulletins’ and ‘ Proceedings of the National Mu- seum,’ the editions of which shall not be less than 3,000 copies, and binding in half turkey or material not more expensive, scien- tific books and pamphlets presented to and acquired by the National Museum Library” (sundry civil act, March 3, 1905)____ $25, 000. 00
DISBURSEMENTS.
Ue LNs 2Oie one wVEUSC UMN == =e ee ee $7, 413. 42
Proceedinesvor the MiMseume === oe ee 1 OSOL aK
Gontributions to National Herbarium: 3-2 3, 045. 93
TE GEN) OYEUESS: ee Se a ae ae gegen 217. 39
Bl Micsean Oe CinGUlais += as 2 Sey Re eee ee 382. 29
ETO GARG OCMM CM US even es ee ee ee eee fie
ESET CL eee ee See ee ee re ee ee ee Se BO, 2A
FRCCOL CMD OOS mame ear a en ie ee ee ae 145. 40 RocalescishursementS = 2a e = == ee eee 24, 775. 93 Balance July 1, 1906, to meet outstanding liabilities__________ 224. OF
RENT OF WORKSHOPS, NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1906. RECEIPTS.
Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906: “For rent of workshops and temporary storage quarters for the National Museum” (sundry civil act, March 3, 1905) ~--_----____ $4, 580, 00Q
DISBURSEMENTS. Rent of workshops:
431 Ninth street SW., 12 months, at $166.66_________ $1. 999. 92
217 Seventh street SW., 12 months, at $105__________ 1, 260. 00
309 and 313 Tenth street SW., 12 months, at $80_____ 960. OO
915 Virginia avenue (rear), 12 months, at $30________ 360. 00 LOtalerdishursement sees as See eee eee Po 4, 579. 92
3 silanes uiliy-al mel Oe es ca eo LS 0. 08
XXXVIII REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
RENT OF WORKSHOPS, NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1905.
RECEIPTS.
Balance suly’ 1h; 190G==s 2" 2 et ee eee ee ee $0. OS DISBURSEMENTS.
DDISHULSEMICMTS = ss Se a ee ee eee eee None.
Balancechiliyw 3 900). =e SS ee eee $0. O8
RENT OF WORKSHOPS, NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1904. RECEIPTS. leymeravee dipdby 1, Wea, IS) Ose JIRIGIE Tey pou = $0. OS
DISBURSEMENTS.
LDS ORO RS YSN DENI FS a ee Ee he Bey ee ae ee een EGS None. BRE SAIL ANN CC pe ee a ee Le Gs eee $0. OS
Balance carried, under provisions of Revised Statutes, section 3090, by the Treasury Departinent to the credit of the surplus fund June 380, 1906.
BUILDING REPAIRS, NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1906.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906: “For repairs to buildings, sheps. and sheds, National Museum, including all necessary labor and material” (sundry civil act, Marc higSy el 905) = ea 2 ee ee ee ee $15, 000. 00
SRIATIES TOL TCOMIpPSn Sait Ome ee $7, 452. 05 SpeClallisernviGes=ae= = se Pea ee = NE 8 48. 00 AME GRUEMIES BinGl “ReRGaS $7, 500. 05 Miscellaneous: EAST) Ha Gee = se ar rn gees ee tee ee 21. 50 (CEMEMIF WhRNWOe TROIS ot 230. 00 Clothe eee ee Se Se i ee eee 38. 25 GUaASS i oS ee ae cae Bo) ee 30. 65 EVAR Ware sab O ls eee ee 434.91 Iron and steel doors, steps, ete___________ 168. 50 Lime, plaster, sand, fireproof blocks______ 863. 55 TIM Dei ee ease ea ae ee ay oe 2eAL TS IPB HHAES, CUS allies Toeeiivess 221-59 Leiovenlommayer renenrerse ll PALS, 9) Repairs to roofs (by contract) ——~________ 144. 00 steel beams, angles, ete _2---2--) 40. 90 WViOOdWOr] = 5 == = sates eee ee 2 eee 12. 30 SNOUT Mabie VSO oe 2, T06. 47
Total disbursements 10, 206. 52
Balance July 1, 1906, to meet outstanding liabilities__________ 4, 793. 48
REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. XX XIX
Analysis of disbursements for salaries or compensation.
ae Ssuperintendent, ate SlGG:G6_2 = 2 a $999. 96 MRLOLCM tire Leh) ramen wen ern. rein ce Aes 2 ees so ne 1, O80. 00 ASCENT] OSTINE ASD, EVP Yo 1 a EES as ee a a 1, 232. 50 SVU CCR apelin a ae ee ee ee Se re spline a SIORRNR EE ponte See me ha ee ee 725. 67 He SiaMlecml ao rerenaiti thi) = eee wee eee 2 ee ee 81. 67 IGlASSined ml aDOLeL gals OU eae ee ee ee ge ee 2 a ee 720. 00 IBIS Cera hl eee ee ee ee a oS Be ee te ee 600. 00 SETTLE SST LCC Dea eAiln yeh) eee Sc ee ae ee eg 120. 00 IE TE OTR, ABTS ce eS ee ee es oe ee ee 141. 00 TEP VEST OYON REN ee Noticed) 2s ce SD eee 480. OO Sa ADOLELS walked OO Ger dynos == Ss One Se eae eee = fet 153. 75
Morslesalariescor COMpPENSAuO Me sess ae ee ee 7, 452. 05
BUILDING REPAIRS, NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1905. RECEIPTS. Balances iuly.), 1905,,as per last reports = = $1, 800. 90
DISBURSEMENTS.
Cement Mortar emurble; ete] = Be ee $37. 95 (HOSS). 2cacece ae ee alee er = ae ee ne cena 5. 70 IVECO LO OLS CCE Se a es ee ee ee 259. 20 UGG OST a Se et ee em TS es la a ee ee ee ee 12. 97 PaintserOuls: BClCa: 222207 225. ee ee oe ee a ee ee es BOM re En Ser aera Ss ee wee See ee a se ee 2 8832 Repaicse to coors. (Dy. COnbEACh) a= = ee Shee Se 438. 50 ANUS “Tilouess See ose es EE oe ee ee ee Fe 19000 INO EW HOS Ongena Ne eS Se re eee 1, 493. 31 Balance July 1, 1906, to meet outstanding liabilities__.-_- = 307. 59
BUILDING REPAIRS, NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1904.
RECEIPTS. Balancer Jilly lO0a = asepel Last re pORGs == = == = ee ee DOO DISBURSEMENTS. DDiSbuEsementsheeee = = ae ae eee ee ek ee ee oe = Sees None. al an COs = a ee ee a ee ee ge sr es ee nn, ee = D3. 34
Balance carried under provisions of Revised Statutes, section 3090, by the Treasury Department, to the credit of the surplus fund, June 30, 1906.
BOOKS, NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1906. RECEIPTS.
Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906: “Por purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals, for reference in the National Museum” (sundry civil act March 3, 1905)_______ $2, OOO. 00
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DISBURSEMENTS. Books AMP hletSy rane peLLO CNC ais ee ee $1, 262. 18 Balance July 1, 1906, to meet outstanding liabilities_____-_—__ 737. 82
BOOKS NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1905.
RECEIPTS. Bailes diel Th GOs, IS oreo Mens, Teo a $965. 96
DISBURSEMENTS.
IBOOK, jORVEMO MES, Ghaol je AO CNCRN. = ee a2 (90569 Balance July 1, 1906, to meet outstanding liabilities___-_________ 60. 27
BOOKS, NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1904. RECEIPTS. Balancer ulvanley a9 OS salina Creal este 10 O Teter a ee $18. 32
DISBURSEMENTS.
BOOS, jOeianlfaywulestss eave! jovesmo kegs = = ee LOS a Balan Cer. A] 4 Sakae oes See eee a Se ee eee ee ee ee 7. 61
Balance carried under provisions of Revised Statutes, section 8090, by the Treasury Department, to the credit of the surplus fund, June 30, 1906.
NATIONAL MUSEUM, TRANSPORTATION OF EXHIBITS ACQUIRED FROM THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION.
RECEIPTS.
alkenes: diwbky a, aes), GIS) javere JIRVSic age ore Say, Zaisy, 12 DISBURSEMENTS. MnrehtsandScarticehe= 2s) ees eee 5S re aso ee a 4, 063. 79 Balance July 1, 1906, to meet outstanding liabilities__________ iL Wal, 33 PURCHASE OF SPECIMENS, NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1904. RECEIPTS. Balance July 1, 1905, as per last report______-___ 2) ea ed eS ee ee $614. 72 DISBURSEMENTS. DISDUESCIICHLS = 22 = 2 eee = eee ee ore on ae Le ee ees None.
PES E11 as 2 a fa ES a ee ee ____ $614. 72
Balance carried under provisions of the Revised Statutes, section 3090, by the Treasury Department, to the credit of the surplus fund, June 30, 1906.
REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK, 1906. RECEIPTS.
Appropriation by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906: “For continuing the construction of roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, subsistence, purchase and transportation of animals; including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, the printing and publishing of operations, not exceeding 1,500 copies, and general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, in- cluding purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles required for official purposes, $95,000” (sundry civil act, Mareh oaamee OA) c) |) ee are ees ee a oes Eee an Yas Ee te eA et
DISBURSEMENTS.
Salaries or compensation :
1 superintendent, at $275 per month_____ $5, 8300. 00 1 assistant superintendent, at $166.66 per
TO TG eee ee et Re A ee . 1,999. 92 2 clerks, at $125 per month______ Pe 3, 000. 00 1 stenographer, at $83.33 per month_____ 999. 96 1 messenger, at $50 and $60 per month__ 650. 00 1 messenger, at $45 per month__________ 540. 00 1 messenger boy, at $1 per day__________ 22a. 20 1 photographer, at $70 per month ______ 280. 00 1 head keeper, at $125 per month________ 1, 500. 00 7 keepers, at $65 per month ______ | 5, 421. 00 1 keeper, at $60 and $65 per month___-___ 750. 00 5 keepers, at $62.50 per month ________ __ 3, 750. 00 1 sergeant of watch, at $60 and $65 per
TYG) GF] Ss ae See a ee ee eee ee 750. OO 1 watchman, at $65 per month __________ TSO. OO 4 watchmen, at $60 per month__________ 2, 850-00 1 attendant, at $22.50 per month________ 270. 00 1 attendant, at 75 cents per day___-____ a0)
Total salaries or compensation__________________ $27, 071. 63
Miscellaneous :
EG eS ee Nee Se Pe ee 4, 307. 47 Buuldinesmateriall 2a = eee 2, 638. 03 Rencinevcaresmaterialess = =" = oes sos 235. 84 Hoodstomanimials= sae = ene Se 14, 424. 60 Relea eae 2 ee ee ee a ee 479. 96 10S) Le Cae Se ee ee eee 1, 651. 83 UG GUC a2 ee eee ple! 186. 50 d Ei: OYE) ae ee es ee ee a Osean Dpto A SO a ee ee ee (Go tsifl MachinenyantOOlS: Cu@s = = eee 346. 16
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$95, 000. 00
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Miscellaneous—Continued.
Miscellaneous 7 = =e ee $1, 235. 92 Panis TOUS: S1aSS (Olesen ee Filey 1188 Postage, telegraph, and telephone________ 215. 03 Pur chasevoLeaainalS =e a 1, 308. 41 Road material and grading._-__ = 515. 76 Stationery. books, ete2. === tse 256. 97 SRVeyIne. Plans) etee =e eee’ 340. 00 Travel and field expenses_______________ 220. 40 Brees 7 platits: CtGl—= = - os ae S82 ee 107. 08 Water supply, sewerage, etc_____________ 510. 84 FoLtalamiscellanecous +2 == 2 = SS ee $30, 236. 31
Wages of mechanics and laborers and hire of teams in constructing buildings and inclosures, laying water pipes, building roads, gutters, and walks, planting trees, and otherwise improving the grounds:
1 draftsman, at $100 per month_________ $150. 00 1 machinist, at $100 per month__________ 1, 200. 00 fi foreman, at Sis per month... -—__. . _— 900. 00 1 assistant blacksmith, at $60 per month_ 720. 00 i workman, at $60 and $65 per month___ 750. 00 1 classified laborer, at $60 and $65 per
MI OUL ese ee 2 Re ee ee ee ee oe 748. 00 1 classified laborer, at $62.50 per month__ 750. 00 1 classified laborer, at $60 per month____ 720. 00 2 Aaborers, ab jo) per month] 2- === 1, 320. 00 2NADOTELS abs SHU spel MOM. LASS SD 2Alaporers, at $40 per month! == 2 = see 960. 00 i jpainter) at S75 per month =] = == 57. 50 ikpainter;, at.$3 per day]_=---- = == ss 55. 50 1 carpenter, at $3 per day and $75 per
MOU Ch ee ene 2 ee eee 979. 50 S\Carpenters, at do per Gay. === == 216. 00 1 blacksmith, at $3 per day_______ eens 493. 50 af aborern at o2-25 per day=— 22s. 689. 62 8 classified laborers, at $2 per day_______ 1, 981. 00 2 laborers, at $2 per day___ = - = 782. 00. 1 classified laborer, at $1.75 per day______ 624. 75 AS MlADOTEES. Ab ole iD oper Gaya eee 6, 725. 70 HO MADOECES: iia 1-50) penday= = =e 8, 841. 52 2 aporers at oper Gay ee 156. 50 4 helpers, at 75 cents per day___________ Sie, (il 2 helpers, at 50 and 75 cents per day____-_ 376. 02 3 helpers, at 50 cents per day___--------- 67. 26 2 wagons and teams, at $3.50 per day____ 846. 99 2 horses and carts, at $1.75 per day____-__ 247.19
Total wages of mechanics, etc______ Te Soe en 32, 880. 01
Total disbursements: 2.2. }25-Ses = ee eee 90, 187. 95
Balance July 1, 1906, to meet outstanding liabilities__________ 4, 812. 05
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NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK, 1905.
Balancesvuly cl. 160b.as per last reports 22— = -- == Calne alse 7s DISBURSEMENTS.
NErwices OmsnOlrsecdUG Cait melts. = ae eee SE Ay er (5:
PES UL CLL seme eB es a oe Se ne I SF 5, 745. 61
EUG In abemaile oa ee seers Sets ee ee Se ek 313. 35
Henecine "ea renmaterial Cle2=. =.= 25) 2s ee 81. 19
FOO ee eats MEY Ley Sy ena ee ee ee ge ee eee Dy HOSTAL
1D Gey 4 0 ee Se ee el ee 520. 21
LAST nT) OVE eee a ena pe ra ee Sees Dilenioe
MACHINE? VsLOOLSmelLClo a ep ame ony =A See eee 198. 88
MESCEL AIG OU See ae een en Ce lee Ae ee ee ee 320. 26
PAINTS OLS AelASS CUG 2 22. 28 eg Le ee ee 134. 97
Postage, telephone, and telegraph ______________________ a 64. 22
PACH ASCL OTA DIN Se sake ee eee Be Ae, Se 2 ee 436. 14
howd material oragdineg, ete: 2. 2-2 26-7 oe Sete 74. 30
StamoneLy, DOOkS. printing, Cle. =). eee eee 86. 53
TCE AMES OCG 2s a ae en 9 oD none eg Cn te 1. 00
Winter Supply, Sewerage, Cl@2. 2 ree ee iis Mota CUSDUESCMENES 22 2s aes ee ees ee ee 11, 006. 39 Balance July 1, 1906, to meet outstanding liabilities__.-_______ 151. 34
NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK, 1904.
Balance sully ds 1905: as per last, report. 2. $1, 376. 99 DISBURSEMENTS. RTRGUUINE seo SE 2 ee i ee ee ee eee $1. 00 DSC = ene eee ern oe ee ee ee Eee 1, 372. 70 RO tale GUS OUESEMeM [See ae Sea on ee ee ee A SSO aN Ge wee ee ee ae ee ee eee fete A ee ane ES 3. 29
Balance carried, under provisions of Revised Statutes, section 3090, by the Treasury Department to the credit of the surplus fund June 30, 1906.
RECAPITULATION.
The total amount of funds administered by the Institution during the year ending June 30, 1906, appears from the foregoing statements to have been as follows:
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
HrOMepAlanCer une Os 1 OOH sere. eee ee eee eee $5, 153. 92 Krom receipts to June a0) 190622 = =. eee 67, 662. 39
$72, 816. 31 APPKOPRIATIONS COMMITTED BY CONGRESS TO THE CARE OF THE INSTITUTION.
International exchanges—Smithsonian Institution :
Home aAlAnCes 0 fe O 0A errata ee a ee $10. 08 HOME al anCero ts LO) ee ee ee ee 4, 513. 95 Hromeappropriavion torn G0GZ2=— 2 === = ss es 28, SOO. 00
————— _ 38, 324. 03
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American Hthnology—Smithsonian Institution :
Mromubalance of dO eae Sow eS ee $75. TO
Mrom-=balancevotel (05s == ea eee 648. 26
IMR Ayo oRgjdverennkon ioe WO 2 a 40, 000. 00 Astrophysical Observatory—Smithsonian Institution :
Hromy balances of 2190422222252 = eS ee 33. 02
Dos Love naverss Coe INGO NS Ss ee ee es 4, 188. 52
HOM Map POPE ALIOM NO Teal O 0) Gee ee 15, 000. 60 Preservation of collections—National Museum:
Hromapalancenofel O02 222s. 26.2 See sees 198. 99
Krome balan CexOfel S052] === 6, 645. ¢
From appropriation for 1906____ Se oats A EP ee 180, 000. 00 Furniture and fixtures—National Museum:
Krommbalancesor lO042. 222 22" Sees tae 6. 94
Mromeb lance tO fel GOR ee = ee ee eee 2, 769. 99
IDROGO BO OKO MN, ioye IMG = - 2 22, 500. 00 Heating and lighting—National Museum :
Hrommbalance of 1904222 eee eee ea tee eat 54. 48
INO MEWS GE IR oe 1, 469. 40
Igieos Ajo ooyeehaom soye ING. 18, 000. 00 Postage—National Museum:
INTRON LYoo MONE ioe WO se Printing and binding—National Museum:
INTRON ByovoreoyoveeueKONN ioe IMG = ee Rent of workshops—National Museum :
Krom) balancesot 904222222 _2 2 eee . .O8
Hromebalance of s905j2 2222 a2 - en eee eee O08
IMO Ayajorroy genevieve WOH —_ 4,580. 00 Building repairs—National Museum :
HrLOms balancer fel O04. 222 Aen ee eee ee 53.3
lnygoyedy loenves wir UR a 1, 800. 90
IDTECN— By ORO) Oven KOM) Toe I Nj po 15, 000. 00 Books—National Museum :
Hronubalancerioiel $042. ee eee 18. 32
Krombalanceorl 0522.22 =e ee 2 eee 965. 96
MrOMPAp POD Lia blOM kOe tO (6 ee een ee 2, 000. 00
Transportation of exhibits acquired from the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition—National Museum :
IhroveN lOVEVKCE Oe EyoomOyOOENNOMN—
Purchase of specimens—National Museum:
Mronitbalancevofd 904 22) 22 u 4o5 Se es Le ee eee aa
National Zootogical Park:
OM all an Cem Of S 4 cee eee ee ee eee $1, 376. Hrombalancey ot 905-322 ee ae eee Wl, UDC. EVE OMA DLO Le Gl Ome fT! OG ae ee 95, OOO.
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SUMMARY. SHITE SOM TS Wes kn SbLCU OMe ee tn Be Pe ee $72, 816. 31 LUT te NEHER Al pC) 0 eT 0 eS Pe a ee 30, 024. 03 PAU Teel Thee er NT) Oyen as eee es SR ee ee 40, 718. 96 ENSSHCTRLOY OV ONAST RGN (C0 | OFSC2) e821 0) gene ie sn 19, 221. 54: National Museum: PReSeCLyaAuoOn Of COlechons-—2-= ===. = = ee $186, 844. 3 HUGMIRUre and sce hIres. =. ee Seek ee 25, 276. 93 Heating and liehting= == 3222 =e eae ER eee 19, 523. 88 LENG URE( Stel i a 5 ne ee ee ee 500. 00 Rringineeanda bin ing. S- 2 ee ee 25, 000. 00 Reni OLaWOR SOUS 225 se ee a ee ee 4, 580. 16 Eunldine srepaitss ===). == 2 59s eee oe ee ee 16, 854. 24 IOC GSS < ek ak SS ae See ae ese eee ee ee 2, 984. 28 Transportation of exhibits acquired from Louisiana Purchase Exposition ________ ee eee eee = 5, Zoo. 12 Purehasevor Specimens. 6 25-2 esa 614. 72 —— 287, 413. 66 NaGLOn a eZOOLOSiGal Parco == se ne Se eee 107, 534. 72
961, 029. 22
The committee has examined the vouchers for payment from the Smithsonian income during the year ending June 30, 1906, each of which bears the approval of the Secretary or, in his absence, of the Acting Secretary, and a certificate that the materials and services charged were applied to the purposes of the Institution.
The books and vouchers have been examined and found correct.
Statement of regular income from the Smithsonian fund available for use during the year ending June 30, 1907.
TREN NCGS: dil take Uo See ee ee ee eee ee ee $10, 184. 13 Interest due and receivable July 1, 1906_______________ 528, 110. 00 Interest due and and receivable January 1, 1907________ 28, 110. 00 Interest, West Shore Railroad bonds, due July 1, 1906__ $40. 00 Interest, West Shore Railroad bonds, due January 1, 5 eee ee pen Aen sh eee Nn Se SL 840. 00
57, 900. 00
Total available for year ending June 30, 1907_______________ 68, 084. 13 Respectfully submitted. J. B. Henperson, Chairman, ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, EHxecutive Committee.
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ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS RELATIVE TO THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, ETC.
[Continued from previous reports. ]
{Fifty-ninth Congress, first session. ] SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution of the class other than members of Congress shall be filled by the reappointment of Richard Olney, a citizen of Massachusetts. (Approved February 23, 1906; Statutes, XX XIV, 822.)
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the vacaney in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution of the class other than members of Congress shall be filled by the reappointment of Andrew D. White, a citizen of New York, whose term expires June second, nineteen hundred and six. (Approved April 23, 1906; Stat- utes, XXXIV, 827, 828.)
SmirHsoniaAN Deposrr |Liprary or Coneress|.—For custodian, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand two hun- dred dollars; messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messen- ger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, three thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. (Approved June 22, 1906; Statutes, ROO LY, S98:)
Ruin or Casa Granpe, Arizona.—For protection of Casa Grande Ruin, in Pinal County, near Florence, Arizona, and for excavation on the reservation, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, three thousand dollars. (Approved June 30, 1906; Statutes, XX XIV, 729.)
PRINTING AND Brinprnc.—For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing and binding the Annual Reports of the Board of Regents, with general appendixes, ten thousand dollars; under the Smith- sonian Institution, for the Annual Reports of the National Museum, ‘with general appendixes, and for the Annual Report of the American Historical Association, and for printing labels and blanks, and for® the Bulletins and Proceedings of the National Museum, the editions
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of which shall not exceed four thousand copies, and binding, in half turkey or material not more expensive, scientific books and pamphlets presented to and acquired by the National Museum Library, thirty- nine thousand dollars; for the Annual Reports and Bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology, twenty-one thousand dollars; in all, seventy thousand dollars. (Approved June 30, 1906; Statutes, XXXIV, 760.)
SMITHSONIAN GROUNDS: For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds, three thousand dollars.
For resurfacing asphalt roadways in the Smithsonian grounds, five thousand dollars. (Approved June 30, 1906; Statutes, XXXIV, 733.)
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES.
For expenses of the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and the purchase of necessary books and period- icals, twenty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars. (Approved June 30, 1906; Statutes, XX XIV, 704.)
Navau Opservatrory: For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences, furniture, gas, chemicals, and stationery, freight (including trans- mission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange), foreign postage, and expressage, plants, fertilizers, and all contin- gent expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars. (Approved June 92, 1906; Statutes, XXXIV, 425.)
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY.
For continuing ethnological researches among the American In- dians and the natives of Hawaii under the direction of the Smith- sonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all neces- sary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, forty thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be used for rent of building. (Approved June 30, 1906; Statutes, XX XIV, 704.)
ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY.
For maintenance of Astrophysical Observatory, under the direc- tion of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, printing and publishing results of researches, not exceeding one thousand five hundred copies, repairs and alterations of buildings and miscellaneous expenses, four- teen thousand dollars. (Approved June 30, 1906; Statutes, XXXIV, 704.)
ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. XLIX INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE.
For the cooperation of the United States in the work of the Inter- national Catalogue of Scientific Literature, including the preparation of a classified index catalogue of American scientific publications for incorporation in the International Catalogue, the expense of clerk hire, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and other necessary incidental expenses, five thousand dollars, the same to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, (Approved June 30, 1906; Statutes, XX XTV, 704.)
NATIONAL MUSEUM.
For continuing the construction of the building for the National Museum, and for each and every purpose connected with the same. five hundred thousand dollars. )
For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhi- bition and safe-keeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, twenty thousand dollars.
For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and _ tele- phonie service for the National Museum, eighteen thousand dollars.
For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Gov- ernment, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and all other necessary expenses, one hun- dred and eighty thousand dollars, of which sum five thousand five hundred dollars may be used for necessary drawings and illustrations for publications of the National Museum.
For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference in the National Museum, two thousand dollars.
For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, National Museum, including all necessary labor and material, fifteen thousand dollars.
For rent of workshops and temporary storage quarters for the National Museum, four thousand five hundred and eighty dollars.
For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum, five hundred dollars. (Approved June 30, 1906; Statutes, XXXIV, 704.)
For preservation of collections, National Museum, twenty-six dol- lars and thirty cents. (Approved June 30, 1906; Statutes, XXXIV, 667.)
NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK.
For continuing the construction of roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage and drainage; and for grading, planting, and other- sM 1906
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wise improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of ani- mals; including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, the printing and publishing of operations, not exceeding one thousand five hundred copies, and general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles required for official purposes, ninety-five thousand dollars; one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. (Approved June 30, 1906; Statutes, XXXIV, 704, 705.)
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION.
That there shall be exhibited at the Jamestown Exposition by the Government of the United States from the Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum, and the Library of Congress such articles and materials of an historical nature as will serve to impart a knowledge of our colonial and national history; and such Government exhibit shall also include an exhibit from the War and Navy Departments, the Life-Saving Service, the Revenue-Cutter Service, the Army, the Navy, the Light-House Service, the Bureau of Fisheries, and an exhibit from the Island of Porto Rico. And the Bureau of American Republics is hereby invited to make an exhibit illustrative of the resources and international relations of the American Republics, and space in any of the United States Government exhibit buildings shall be provided for that purpose. The Jamestown Tercentennial Com- mission, created by an act of Congress, approved March third, nine- teen hundred and five, shall, in addition to the authority and duties conferred and imposed by said act, be authorized and empowered and it shall be their duty to select, prepare, transport, and arrange for the exhibition and return of the Government exhibits herein author- ized. In addition to the articles and materials which the said James- town Tercentennial Commission may select for exhibition as aforesaid, the President of the United States may in his discretion designate other and additional articles and materials.
The officers and employees of the Government who may be ap- pointed by the Jamestown Tercentennial Commission to carry out the provisions of this section and any officers and employees of the Government who may be detailed to assist them, including the officers of the Army and Navy, shall receive no compensation in addition to their regular salaries, but they shall be allowed their actual and neces- sary traveling expenses, together with a per diem in lieu of subsist- ence not to exceed four dollars. The officers of the Army and Navy
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shall receive said allowance in lieu of subsistence and mileage not allowed by law and the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy may in their discretion detail retired Army and Navy officers for such duty. Any provision of law which may prohibit the detail of persons in the employ of the United States to other service than that which they customarily perform shall not apply to persons detailed to duty in connection with said Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition. And to carry out in full all of the provisions of this section not herein otherwise specifically appropriated for, the sum of two hundred thou- sand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appro- priated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropri- ated, the same to be expended in accordance with law and under such rules and regulations as the said Jamestown Tercentennial Commission may prescribe.
That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause suitable buildings to be erected on the site of the said Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition for said Government exhibit, including a suitable building for the exhibit of the United States Life-Saving Service; a fisheries building, including an aquarium; also a building for use as a place of rendez- vous for the soldiers and sailors of the United States Navy and Army and of the foreign navies and armies participating in said celebration ; also a building for use as a place of rendezvous for the commissioned naval and army officers participating in said celebration; also the preparation of the grounds for, the approaches thereto, and the light- ing of all of said buildings. Said buildings shall be erected, as far as practicable, on the colonial style of architecture from plans prepared by the supervising architect of the Treasury, to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to contract for said buildings in the same manner and under the same regulations as for other public buildings of the United States: Provided, That the aggregate cost of all of said buildings, including the preparation of grounds, approaches, and lighting, shall in no event exceed the sum of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which sum is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. (Approved June 30, 1906; Statutes, XXXIV, 764, 765.)
REP OR f
OF
RICHARD RATHBUN,
ACTING SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, FOR THE
YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1906.
To the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
GENTLEMEN: It is with profound sorrow that I record the death at Aiken, S. C., on February 27, 1906, of Samuel Pierpont Langley, Secretary of the Institution since 1887.
This is not the place to give an adequate review of the work of Mr. Langley as a man of science, or to recall his contributions to the prog- ress of thought and to the upbuilding of the various scientific insti- tutions with which he was connected.
I may be permitted, however, to express here my sense of bereave- ment in the passing away of a man whose friendship and personal and official confidence I was privileged to enjoy. Although connected with the Museum and the Institution in one capacity or another for more than thirty years, my close relations with the late Secretary did not begin until 1896. Within this decade I learned to know him as a man of the most profound intellect, an acknowledged master in that branch of astronomy which he had virtually made his own, and a pioneer in the difficult subject of mechanical flight. In his youngvr years he set himself to determine the nature and composition of the sun, and the properties of heat and light in their relation to life upon this planet. Later he attacked that fascinating problem, the main- tenance and progress in the air of bodies many fold heavier than the medium through which they move.
That he should have investigated these two large difficult subjects was but typical of his most marked intellectual characteristic, which required that he knock incessantly upon the doors which were closed to others. He was equally, if not professionally, concerned with all
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the difficulties which had presented themselves to the human intellect from the abstractions of the mathematician and the metaphysician to the mysteries of the theologian and the secrets of lost civilizations.
But this great man also lived upon the earth. In his youth and earlier manhood he had a business training and a business career, and he carried to the verge of the grave most scrupulously exact business methods. His theory of administration lay mainly in select- ing men whom he could trust, and when he found that this trust was justified, in giving them his unbounded confidence. A man of the world, he yet retained the simplicity and rigid straightforwardness of the Puritan character, and though the arts of flattery were un- known to him, he bound to himself with indissoluble ties of affection, respect, and loyalty those who had the opportunity of coming closely in contact with him.
With this Institution he had completely merged his life; not even his favorite scientific pursuits weighed where the interests of the In- stitution were concerned; in season and out of season it was the object of his constant care. To it he added two new and important activi- ties, the Astrophysical Observatory and the National Zoological Park. It was during his administration that the Smithson fund received its only considerable additions since the original gift, and that the new building for the National Museum was authorized by Congress.
The elegance of his style in writing and the clearness of his pres- entation, no matter what the subject might be, greatly enhanced the Tnstitution’s reputation both here and abroad. Hardly any other American man of science so frequently met the learned men of the Old World or received so many distinctions from the academies and universities and societies of Great Britain and the Continent.
He was not by any means solely devoted to the natural or physical sciences. The breadth of his knowledge of the things that make for culture, and especially his interest in the fine arts were almost equal to his devotion to science, and his wide knowledge of history, though confined to no one country, was more especially directed to France, with whose annals and memoirs his acquaintance was almost that of an expert. His literary sense, not surpassed by even the most culti- vated of men, took the double direction of an enjoyment of all that was good in the best of literature, and an attempt to produce writing on scientific subjects which should be clear and intelligible to the man of ordinary education, and sometimes even to the child.
Many of these personal characteristics were reflected in the con- duct of the Institution during his incumbency. The Smithsonian Report was made more popular in the best sense, conveying exact
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information as to the advancement of science and the progress of knowledge to all who have an intelligent desire to keep themselves abreast of the world’s thought.
The fine arts, which were provided for in the original law of the Institution, and which formed the object of its care at the beginning. had made but little progress for many years, because of the pressure of other subjects. He revived interest in this field in the early years of his administration and his action in this regard was more than justified by the noteworthy developments in the department of fine arts here in the past few years, developments which were slowly taking shape just as his hfe was drawing to a close.
In the passing away of this distinguished man of science, broad minded, cultivated, this Institution and the world at large lose a great leader, and the writer of these lines an inspiring guide and a sincere friend.
Out of respect to his memory the flags on the buildings of the In- stitution were carried at half mast until after the interment of his remains at Boston, on March 3. The offices of the Institution were closed on March 1, on which day the remains arrived in Washington, and on March 2, the day of the funeral services here. On the latter day business was also suspended in the offices of the National Mu- seum, International Exchanges, Bureau of American Ethnology, National Zoological Park, and Astrophysical Observatory, and dur- ing the hours of the funeral services the exhibition halls were closed to the public.
A formal announcement of the death of Secretary Langley was sent to the foreign correspondents of the Institution, and many ac- knowledgments have been received, expressing regret at the loss which the world of science and the Institution have sustained.
In consequence of this sad event, it becomes my duty as Acting Secretary to submit a report showing the operations of the Institu- tion during the year ending June 30, 1906, including the work placed under its direction by Congress in the United States National Mu- seum, the Bureau of American Ethnology, the International Ex- changes, the National Zoological Park, and the Astrophysical Observatory.
In the body of this report there is given a general account of the affairs of the Institution and its bureaus, while the appendix pre- sents more detailed statements by those in direct charge of the differ- ent branches of the work. Independently of this, the operations of the National Museum and of the Bureau of American Ethnology are fully treated in separate volumes. The scientific work of the Astrophysical Observatory is recorded in occasional publications,
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THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. THE ESTABLISHMENT.
By act of Congress approved August 10, 1846, the Smithsonian Institution was created an Establishment. Its statutory members are “the President, the Vice-President, the Chief Justice, and the heads of Executive Departments.”
As organized on June 30, 1906, the Establishment consisted uf the following ex officio members:
TueroporEe Roosevett, President of the United States.
Cuartes W. Fatrpanks, Vice-President of the United States.
Metvitte W. Fuuuer, Chief Justice of the United States.
Exinu Root, Secretary of State.
Lesuiz M. Suaw, Secretary of the Treasury.
Wituiam H. Tarr, Secretary of War.
Witu1am H. Moopy, Attorney-General.
GrorcE B. Corteiyou, Postmaster-General.
Cuartes J. Bonaparte, Secretary of the Navy.
Eruan Auten Hircucocn, Secretary of the Interior.
JAMES Witson, Secretary of Agriculture.
Vicror H. Mercatr, Secretary of Commerce and Labor.
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 mem- bers of the Senate, three members of the House of Representatives, and six citizens, “two of whom shall be residents of the city of Washington, and the other four shall be inhabitants of some State, but no two of them of the same State.”
The following appointments and reappointments of Regents were made during the year: By appointment of the Vice-President on December 7, 1905, Senator. Henry Cabot Lodge in place of Senator Orville H. Platt, deceased, and Senator A. O. Bacon to succeed Senator Francis M. Cockrell, whose term of service in the Senate had expired; by appointment of the Speaker on December 18, 1905, Representatives R. R. Hitt and Robert Adams, jr., to succeed them- selves, and Representative W. M. Howard in place of the Hon. Hugh A. Dinsmore, whose term as Representative had expired. By joint resolutions of Congress approved February 23 and April 28, 1906, respectively, the Hon. Richard Olney and Dr. Andrew D. White were appointed Regents for terms of six years each.
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Tt is with deep regret that I have to record the death of the Hon. Robert Adams, jr., on June 1, 1906. Mr. Adams was a member of the Board of Regents on the part of the House of Representatives for nearly ten years, and always displayed a deep interest in the welfare of the Institution. He was succeeded by the Hon. John Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, who was appointed by the Speaker on June 12, 1906.
The membership of the Board at the end of the fiscal year was as follows:
The Chief Justice, Mr. Melville W. Fuller, Chancellor of the Institution; the Vice-President, Mr. Charles W. Fairbanks; Senator S. M. Cullom; Senator Henry Cabot Lodge; Senator A. O. Bacon; Representative R. R. Hitt; Representative John Dalzell; Repre- sentative William M. Howard; Dr. James B. Angell, of Michigan; Dr. Andrew D. White, of New York; the Hon. John B. Henderson, of the city of Washington; Dr. A. Graham Bell, of the city of Wash- ington; the Hon. Richard Olney, of Massachusetts, and the Hon. George Gray, of Delaware.
At a meeting of the Board of Regents held March 12, 1903, the following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That in addition to the prescribed meeting held on the fourth Wednesday in January, regular meetings of the Board shall be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in December and on the 6th day of March, un- less that date falls on Sunday, when the following Monday shall be substituted.
In accordance with this resolution the Board met on December 5, 1905, January 24, 1906, and March 6, 1906. A special meeting was also held on May 16, 1906. The proceedings of the Board at these meetings will be found in its annual report to Congress.
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS.
The year just passed marked an important epoch in the life of the Smithsonian Institution, the completion of its sixth decade.
Few establishments of learning have secured so wide a recognition in so limited a time, short in comparison with the history of the older universities and societies in America and covering but a brief period in the life of the seats of learning and of the academies of the Old World. This circumstance is principally due to the fact that no institution founded in trust ever had so powerful a guardian as the Government of the United States, and to the stability of policy given to the Institution by the permanence of position guaranteed to its head. It is doubtful if any other such organization in this country can point to sixty years of existence under the direction of but three men, and probably no other has been presided over in succession by
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three persons of such great distinction as were called to the responsi- ble position of Secretary.
When James Smithson bequeathed his fortune to the United States of America to found at Washington an institution for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men, he left the broadest direction possible for the establishment of an institution of learning. He placed no restrictions whatever upon the means or methods which the United States might use in carrying out his noble idea. It is clear, however, that he had in mind that concrete means must be employed for accomplishing the purpose of his bequest, and this was the judgment of the Members of Congress for a period of ten years, while the subject of the Smithsonian bequest was under dis- cussion, and of all the distinguished scientific men and educators whose views were sought prior to final action by the National Legis- lature. So broad was the idea that it required to be interpreted and defined lest the energies exercised under the fund be scattered in many directions and prove wasteful and ineffective. As long as the two purposes were kept in mind, namely, to increase the sum total of human knowledge and to spread it abroad, the objects of the be- quest were being accomplished.
Congress in the act of foundation directed that the sum of nearly a quarter of a million of dollars of interest, which had accrued since the receipt of the bequest, be appropriated for the erection of a suitable building, at once giving to the new institution a local habitation and a name, and it prescribed, moreover, to what purposes this building should be put—a museum, a chemical laboratory, a library, a gallery of art, and lecture rooms. The law at once stamped the Institution with a national character by declaring that for exhibition in this building there be delivered over to the Institution all museum objects belonging to the United States which were in the city of Washington, and made the Institution coequal with the Library of Congress in the matter of receiving copyright books, engravings, and other articles. This act, however, comprehensive as it was, required further interpretation, and in addition to the purposes so clearly set forth it was decided to offer prizes for original memoirs, to make grants for special objects of research, and to diffuse knowledge by publishing a series of reports giving an account of new discoveries in science as well as separate treatises on subjects of general interest.
In brief, the new institution was to take upon itself the functions of a great museum representing the sciences, the arts, and the indus- tries; a gallery of art; a library; an academy stimulating research and issuing publications, and a publishing house for the populari- zation of knowledge, and all these upon an income of what was then
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not much more than $30,000 per annum. Nevertheless all these activities were undertaken and more not named were added, and by great economy and through the then larger purchasing power of money they were carried on with credit. Moreover, in view of the absence of many national scientific institutions which have since grown up, the Smithsonian, through its Secretary, was for a long period the general adviser of the Government in scientific matters. He served on the Light-House Board; he was called upon to make experiments to improve the acoustic properties of the Capitol; in times of war he advised in ordnance matters, whilst at different periods the several secretaries took up such large questions as the study of meteorology and the making of meteorological observations all over the United States, finally resulting in the formation of the United States Weather Bureau; the artificial propagation of food fishes and the investigation of problems relating to ichthyology in their bearing upon the fisheries, resulting in the establishment of the Bureau of Fisheries; or so large a problem as the practical use for the purposes of war of the principle discovered in connection with the maintenance and flight of heavy bodies through the air.
As Congress and the people generally realized that the programme of operations was vastly larger than was commensurate with the income from the fund, they endowed this ward of the Government by annual budgets and thus made what was originally a compara- tively small museum a great museum of the nation; provided for the system of exchanges of Government and scientific publications between this country and other countries; maintained ethnological and archeological work on a considerable scale; established a splen- did home for the custody of living animals, at once serving for the recreation and instruction of the people and affording valuable ma- terial for students; and within the past year has assisted in a vast scheme of cooperative international bibliographical work, which had its inception in a suggestion made by the first Secretary in 1855. In this and in other ways has the Government aided in carrying out the conditions which it imposed upon the Smithson bequest, coming more and more to the help of the Institution, and making its own fund freer for that portion of its programme of work which has to do with research and publication and the general diffusion of knowledge.
By a gradual and wise development of the system of administra- tion the four or five activities of the Institution have been put into separate groups, each with a responsible head answerable to the Sec- retary, which renders possible the greatest freedom of action and judgment consistent with an orderly and harmonious organization. Thus, at the end of sixty years, it may be said with truth that the
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name of the Smithsonian is a household word throughout the United States, that it has been carried to every land where civilization exists, and that the benefits of this foundation, while naturally inur- ing most strongly to the people of the land in which the establish- ment was created, are yet truly extended to all men, and that the United States, through its legislative and executive branches of the Government, through the distinguished men who have served upon the Board of Regents, and the great scientific leaders and thinkers— Henry, Baird, and Langley—has rendered to the world at large a more than faithful account of its stewardship of this unique bequest.
ADMINISTRATION.
The duties of the Secretary during his absence in the summer and from the time when his final illness began, in November, 1905, were performed by Mr. Richard Rathbun, an assistant secretary of the Institution, by designation of the Chancellor under authority of the act of May 13, 1884, providing for the appointment of an acting secretary. That the work progressed so well is due to the hearty support given by the entire staff in what proved to be one of the most trying years in the history of the Institution.
Dr. Cyrus Adler entered upon the discharge of his duties as assistant secretary in charge of library and exchanges on July 1, 1905, and on the same date Mr. F. W. Hodge, who, for about four years, had served as acting curator of exchanges and assistant in charge of the Smithsonian office, resumed his duties as ethnologist in the Bureau of American Ethnology.
It is gratifying to report that the current business of the Institu- tion was conducted in a prompt and efficient manner, and that no arrearages in the work of the Government branches under its di- rection had to be noted in the quarterly statements made to the Presi- dent and the annual statement made to Congress in accordance with law.
As has been customary, the estimates submitted to Congress in October, 1905, were accompanied by a letter explaining concisely but as forcibly as possible the reasons for requesting the amounts named in connection with each item. In the hearings on these estimates before a subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations, which occupied the greater part of two days in April, 1906, the workings of the Institution and its branches were fully discussed, und it is my opinion that the importance of the activities conducted under the direction of the Board of Regents is well appreciated by the members of that subcommittee.
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In accordance with an enactment of Congress, the Government branches of the Institution join with the Executive Departments in drawing up each year a list of the more important supplies required during the next twelve months. Proposals are thereupon requested and awards are made to the lowest bidders. Reduced prices are secured in this manner and the machinery of purchasing is greatly simplified. The parent Institution has been privileged to share in this arrangement, greatly to its advantage.
FINANCES.
The permanent fund of the Institution and the sources from which it was derived are as follows:
Deposited in the Treasury of the United States.
CUES UO tet SMLGNSOMs) HS46: = ae eh ee ee eee $515, 169. 00 Reidianyelecsdeycol Smithson 1 S6te- ss a ee 26, 210. 638 Deposnrpirom savings Of income, wS6ie22: - Se 2 ea 108, 620. 37 Requese.ot games, Hamilton) 185222 = ee $1, 000. 00 Accumulated interest on Hamilton fund, 1895__________ 1, 000. 00 —_———. 2, 000. 00 Bequest of Simeon Habel, 1880______ ee ae eee ae, ee Se 500. 00 Deposit from proceeds of saleiof-bonds, 188i = — = = 51, 500. 00 GitorehnomassiG= HOGeRINSS WSO lees Se ee 200, 000. 00 Part of residuary legacy of Thomas G. Hodgkins, 1894____________ 8, 000. 00 Depositetrom savings of imcome, 19032222 2s eee a 25, 000. 00 Total amount of fund in the United States Treasury_______ 937, 000. 00
Held at the Smithsonian Institution.
Registered and guaranteed bonds of the West Shore Railroad Company, part of legacy of Thomas G. Hodgkins_______________ 42, 000. 00
Totalenpermanent: und! == - ee Ae oe eee eae 979, 000. 00
That part of the fund deposited in the Treasury of the United States bears interest at 6 per cent per annum, under the provisions of the act organizing the Institution and an act of Congress approved March 12, 1894. The rate of interest on the West Shore Railroad bonds is 4 per cent per annum.
By the final settlement of the estate of the late Thomas G. Hodg- kins during the past year the Institution received, in May, 1906, the balance of the residuary legacy left by this benefactor. It amounted to $7,850, in the form of registered bonds of the United States, now recorded in the name of the Smithsonian Institution, and held sub- ject to the order of the Board of Regents. Interest had accumulated on these bonds to the amount of $3,225.55, which sum was paid in
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cash and deposited in the United States Treasury to the credit of the current account of the Institution.
The income of the Institution during the year amounted to $67,588.08, derived as follows: From interest on the permanent fund, €57,900; from interest on the Hodgkins residuary legacy, $3,225.55 ; from .rentals, $437.53; from miscellaneous sources, $6,025—all of which were deposited to the current-fund account in the Treasury of the United States, which, through the courtesy of the Treasurer, is now receiving and collecting miscellaneous checks for the Institu- tion, thus making unnecessary the intermediary of a bank. With the addition of the nominal balance of $5,153.92, brought forward from the previous year, the total credits for the year reached $72,742. The disbursements, which will be given in detail in the report of the executive committee, amounted to $62,557.87, leaving a credit balance on June 30, 1906, of $10,184.13.
Mr. W. I. Adams, chief clerk of the International Exchanges, was on June 12, 1905, appointed accountant of the Smithsonian Institu- tion and disbursing agent for the Government appropriations for the National Museum, the International Exchanges, the Bureau of American Ethnology, the Astrophysical Observatory, the National Zoological Park, and such other objects as may from time to time be placed by Congress under the direction of the Institution.
Certain additional safeguards suggested by experience were adopted early in the fiscal year for the protection of the funds of the Institution and the Government.
The Institution was charged by Congress with the disbursement of the following appropriations for the year ending June 30, 1906:
International Exchanges ees aes ee $28, 800 American SH thnology 2 — ee ee ee ee ee 40, 000 AStrophysical Observatory 22-525 ee ee ee eee 15, 000 United States National Museum: Murni ture and Siixtunes 2.2 Sen 22s eee eee ee eee eee 22. 500 Heating randlighiting 222s. ee ae ee ee ee 18, 000 IPLeServatlOn sO fs COM eC HOTS = eee eee ee 180, 000 Transportation of exhibits acquired at the Louisiana Purchase HX OSITONY 222 =e ee ee ee ee es 6, 500 BOOKS: "2 Atel 6 ULE Sees ee eer Fs Os et ee ee ee Pee 2, 000 OS CAS Ce RPS SS ee pa ea ha ee eae cae ea 500 Rent, of workshops 22-25 eee. 2 = ee ae 2 eee 4, 580 BULGING: (re DAES 2a ese. es ees Ae ee ee 15, 000 INK? lO WU Ghooke; ioe qovey INGnenorafall WeoEWiON = 1, 500, 000 INAtVOM Ale Zoologia ae airs ee ee ee en es 95, 000 200) 521 (Re eee re eae a ee SOO wey, cP eRe aie NOMI Ee Le 1, 927, 880
The estimates forwarded to Congress in behalf of the Government branches under the Institution and the appropriations based thereon
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for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907, are shown in the following table:
Estimates. Appropria: TYLOR ALLO al SH PX CHAM ECR: cia'm ere neste clerelaaisisicisinia /aatale emia Sarieraacecse area see le $28, 800. 00 $28, 800 FATT GAN BHIUHT OLORY cence Seta n ena Orci a eines = Saat Sean e ee cecctecuiemeiacce 50, 000. 00 40, 000 AStrQp hy sical OPSELVatOLyisanscme asieisinie i ciarclels oleae a aioe oe emer cleieiniea s arcimars 15, 000. 00 | 14, 000 National Museum: eM Gamera Gti LURES eerie cele e tae ciara wa coe ear Sales orejgaoneeten oe ante 22,500. 00 20, 000 Hea oan GuIO RGN. a oas sack cow azo = Saseas sees Secies cosines teases cicls ose 18, 000. 00 18, 000 Preservation COLECTIONSE soos cae ccc soos Sanieneiee sales ws aac cstesers 210, 000. 00 180, 000 é IPUrGhaseOMSPCCiIMeNA sess scs arias «Sa eean- scianesaeese so) ee cists asia's 1LO%000;00))||Seceeeeesee BOOK Sheetecttats ee sie a ctaie’e ayainre wis cletore wis afonciie esate ciao swoon sce meses mceec 5, 000. 00 2, 000 PB URLGIN SOP MINA ees arac sara sae States icc are alae rss ee aio tuiore mise sila’ oemsa seas 15, 000. 00 15, 000 RentOiwOrkShops's ssecccsissas -sl sees ce origwecere © ae sa ckeskitecsulees<eemcce 4, 580. 00 4,580 ROSA Coaamcicinwc se cesia nae ciiemeasecciwas cine a neces cuinet cee cce wesc coos. 500. 00 500 SUNGaViaNnG MiPNTOPCMING 25. <2 cc seccn.w seen isjaceda ccc eae cmibies sis co 4ctiaeic Ms FOS280 SE We esesseoeee New building: torithe National Museum... ./.<c.jcccccccncte scenes ccoceceenac 750, 000. 00 500, 000 Net LON AE ZOOLOPI CRUE ATK c sa7 ace site cls ac's/onnisastnse aianiswas cetacean manecsicaa's 118, 000. 00 95, 000 International Catalogue of Scientific Literature......................------- 5, 000. 00 5, 000 Protection and excavation, ruin of Casa Grande, Arizona..........-..---... (eee sonconcee 3, 000 RO Cae enn sek Sa oisiiin doa cules Meldcamacnccee sede boets udetesctiowsewcsceae 1, 264, 088. 80 925, 880
RESEARCHES.
The fact that at the beginning of the fiscal year there were no funds to the credit of the current income of the Institution rendered it prudent that new research work should not be entered upon until at least a slight surplus to the credit of the Institution should have been accumulated in the Treasury. Accordingly, no enter- prises of this character were initiated during the year, and for the same reason publications in the Smithsonian series proper were suspended for several months. Such investigations as were in progress, however, were continued, and all obligations which had been incurred for grants or publications were met.
SMITHSONIAN GRANTS.
Prof. A. M. Reese, of Syracuse University, who had received a moderate grant from the Institution for the purpose of collecting material for an embryological study of the alligator, submitted in August, 1905, an interesting account of the results of his field work in Florida. A series of nearly 300 embryos was gathered. comprising practically all the stages of development except the very early ones, which Professor Reese proposes to obtain later. Strangely enough, very little has been made known regarding the embryology of this large reptile, once so common in our southern
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waters, and the material now at command will thus furnish the means for an original biological investigation of much importance.
Dr. Edward L. Greene, who, as noted in previous reports, has in course of preparation a paper to be entitled “‘ Landmarks of Botan- ical History,” reports satisfactory progress. The completed manu- script is to be submitted early in 1907, and it is believed that the intimate knowledge of the history of botany possessed by Doctor Greene will render its publication of great value to students in this branch of science.
The International Fishery Congress will hold its fourth general meeting in the city of Washington during the summer of 1908, and to enhance the interest in its proceedings prizes for contributions of merit have been offered by a number of organizations and individ- uals. In view of the importance of the occasion the Institution has tendered an award of $200 for the best essay or treatise on “ Inter- national Regulations of the Fisheries on the High Seas, their His- tory, Objects, and Results.”
HODGKINS FUND.
Several important investigations are in progress under grants from the Hodgkins fund of the Institution, the results of which have not yet been fully reported. The conclusion of others has been un- expectedly delayed, and these will properly be summarized in a later report.
In March, 1906, Dr. R. von Lendenfeld announced the conclusion of the second part of the investigations on the organs of flight car- ried on under his direction. It relates to the air sacs of birds, and was conducted by Mr. Bruno Miiller, whose report has been submitted and approved for publication by the Institution.
Another paper, on the wings of hymenopterous insects, prepared under the same supervision by Dr. Leo Walter, has also been received.
The investigation of Prof. W. P. Bradley, of Wesleyan University, to determine the relation between the initial and the final tempera- ture of air which in flowing through a nozzle passes from a high pressure to a lower is reported as progressing satisfactorily. Oppos- ing theories being held as to the physical principle involved in this type of expansion, special interest is felt in these experiments, and while they are not yet sufficiently advanced for a definite conclusion to be drawn from them, the present results are such as to justify a second moderate grant for their continuance during the coming year. It may be added that this investigation is expected to form an important part of an extended inquiry into the factors which make for efficiency in an air liquefier.
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Under a grant from this fund Mr. A. Lawrence Rotch, director of the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, was enabled to continue the ascensions of ballons-sondes at St. Louis during the different seasons of the year and so to ascertain the annual variation of temperature im the free air at great heights. Twelve balloons were dispatched in July, 1905, and all but two of the attached instruments were recovered. Their automatic records of barometric pressure and air temperature showed an extreme height of nearly 10 miles, with the lowest temperature of 74° F. below zero at a less altitude. The place and time of the descent indicated the average direction and speed of the air currents. All of the last 21 balloons and instru- ments, sent up in April and May, 1906, were returned, some of them having risen 10 miles and encountered a temperature of 85° F. below zero 8 miles above the earth. At about 7 miles a relatively warm stratum was entered, which was found to be at a higher level in the summer and autumn.
In April, 1906, a Hodgkins grant was requested by Mr. S. P. Fer- gusson, assistant at the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, for a study of the differences between the meteorological conditions on the summits of mountains and at the same height in free air. An inves- tigation of this nature being important in its bearings on dynamic meteorology, a small grant to aid in the purchase of the necessary apparatus was approved.
The apparatus adapted and arranged by Mr. Alexander Larsen for experiments in photographing the spectrum of lightning has been materially improved during the year and the results carefully re- ported. Several interesting photographs have been received from Mr. Larsen, although the conditions have been generally unfavorable throughout the season for securing such, as the electrical storms, which would have furnished them, have taken place in the daytime. The research will continue to be prosecuted as occasion offers. A paper by Mr. Larsen on photographing lightning flashes by a moving camera is included in the general appendix of the Smithsonian Report for 1905.
In May, 1906, a Hodgkins grant was approved on behalf of Prof. E. L. Nichols, of Cornell University, for an investigation on the properties of matter at the temperature of liquid air. The impor- tanee to the physicist and chemist of this field of research, which greatly extends the range of temperatures throughout which investi- gations on the properties of matter can be conducted, is recognized, and the Institution expects that the experiments to be prosecuted under the supervision of Professor Nichols will mark a definite ad- vance in scientific knowledge in this direction. The outline of work already submitted notes progress in several interesting researches.
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Preliminary measurements testing the method employed in experi- ments on the heat of vaporization and specific heat at constant pres- sure of air, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen have been successfully conducted, and plans are making to extend the investigation to other gases.
The method employed in an investigation to determine the coeffi- cient of expansion of metals and other substances at low tempera- tures makes use of the interference of light, and, being of extraor- dinary delicacy, possesses the advantage of permitting the determi- nation of the expansion in detail throughout the entire range of temperature, instead of giving merely the mean coefficient between fixed points of widely different temperatures. The results already obtained in the case of gold, silver, aluminum, and glass are of an interesting and unexpected character, and it is the intention to extend the experiments to other substances and temperatures. A set of measurements on the Hall effect in tellurium at the tem- perature of liquid air has been completed during the year, and preparations are already in progress for the study of the Hall effect and of electric properties in general of silicon, tungsten, manganese, chromium, molybdenum, and other substances which have only recently become available. An extended investigation on the effect of temperature upon the magnetic properties of cer- tain steels is reported by Professor Nichols as in progress and promises interesting results.
NAPLES TABLE,
The applications for occupancy of the Smithsonian table at the Naples Zoological Station during the past year have been numerous, and the appointments approved for the period from July 1, 1905, to June 30, 1906, aggregated sixteen months. Such action has been made possible through the courtesy of Doctor Dohrn, the director, who has on several occasions permitted the attendance of two Smithsonian representatives at the same time. As hereto- fore, the reports submitted by various occupants of the Smithsonian table mention with appreciation the excellent management of the station, and the unremitting efforts of all connected with it to further the work of investigators.
Dr. Stewart Paton, formerly of the teaching staff of Johns Hop- kins University, who occupied the table for six months beginning November 1, 1905, secured an extension of his time through June and July, 1906. His researches relate to problems of fundamental impor- tance in connection with the structure, development, and function of the nerves, and their relation to the cardiac movements. It is
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gratifying to state that he reports success in demonstrating the presence at an early period in the embryo of a nervous system far more complicated than was previously believed to exist. In sub- mitting an outline of his investigation, Doctor Paton applied for re- appointment for an additional period and his request has been approved for five months, from October 1, 1906, to February 28, 1907. A monograph collating the results of the entire research will be published on its completion.
Mr. W. B. Bell, fellow in zoology in the State University of Iowa, had the use of the Naples table for three months from the Ist of July, 1905. His time was largely occupied in the preparation of embryological material for later study, relative to the hermit crab, Eupagurus prideauxtt Bell. He will report at a future time upon the results of his investigation.
Although the table was already occupied by a Smithsonian repre- sentative, Dr. Harold Heath, associate professor in Leland Stanford Junior University, was received at the station for three months from January 15, 1906, and Dr. E. L. Mellus, of Baltimore, for the months of January and February, 1906, both being appointees of the Institution. Doctor Heath proposed while at Naples to conduct researches on the development of the ctenophore hydroids and on the body cavity of certain invertebrates. Formal reports, however, have not yet been received from either of these gentlemen.
Dr. M. M. Metcalf, from 1893 to 1906, professor of biology in the Woman’s College of Baltimore, and now professor elect of zoology in Oberlin College, has received the appointment to the Smithsonian table for the months of March and April, 1907. It is Doctor Met- calf’s intention to study the early development of the nervous system in the asexual reproduction of Salpa, to make observations upon certain species of the Ama@ba, and to search for indications of conju- gating flagellispores similar to those noted in a fresh-water species which he has heretofore examined.
Thanks are again due to Dr. J. S. Billings, Dr. E. B. Wilson, Dr. Theodore Gill, and Dr. C. W. Stiles, who constitute the Naples Table Advisory Committee, for continued prompt and courteous aid in passing upon the qualifications of applicants for the Smith- sonian table at the station.
The National Museum and the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Institution have carried on numerous biological, geological, and ethnological researches, described elsewhere in this report. Im- portant investigations by the Astrophysical Observatory on the absorption of the solar envelope and on solar radiation have been continued, and will be referred to later.
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It is mainly through its publications that that vital principle of the Institution, “ the diffusion of knowledge among men,” is carried out. The institution proper maintains three regular series of publi- cations, the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, the Smith- sonian Miscellaneous Collections, and the Annual Reports, while under its auspices are issued the annual reports, proceedings, and bulletins of the National Museum, the reports and bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and the Annals of the Astrophysical Observatory, the whole presenting a fund of information covering a wide range of human knowledge in both a specialized and general form.
The Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, now in their thirty- fourth volume, are restricted to the publication of positive additions to human knowledge resting on original research, all unverified speculations being rejected. The Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collec- tions are designed to contain reports on the present state of our knowledge in particular branches of science, instructions for collect- ing and digesting facts and materials for research, lists and synopses of species of the organic and inorganic world, reports of explora- tions, and aids to bibliographical investigations. This series is now in its forty-ninth volume, and in the Quarterly Issue provision has been made for the early publication of short papers descriptive of new discoveries or containing information of current interest in all departments of science.
These two series of publications are printed at the expense of the Institution. Owing, however, to the lack of funds heretofore men- tioned, their issuance was necessarily suspended during the early part of the year, but toward the close there was a partial resumption of the work. The printing of the memoir on “Atmospheric Nuclea- tion,” by Dr. Carl Barus, in the Contributions, was completed, and several papers were published in connection with the Quarterly Tssue.
The last edition of the Smithsonian Geographical Tables having been exhausted, a new one, embodying some minor corrections by the author, Prof. R. S. Woodward, now president of the Carnegie Institution, was put to press near the end of the year. A revision of the Meteorological Tables, for which there is also a great demand, is in course of preparation.
There is under consideration a request that Bowen’s Vocabulary of the Yoruba languages, published by the Institution in 1858, be reprinted for the use of missionaries in the Yoruba country of West Africa, those making the proposition regarding it as the most useful and accurate book dealing with the various phases of Yoruba
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life. It is interesting to note that a work of this character, issued by the Smithsonian nearly fifty years ago, should still remain a standard of authority.
In view of the increased interest and importance attaching to the subject of earthquakes on account of the disaster to San Fran- cisco and its vicinity on April 18, 1906, it has been decided to pub- lish a supplement to the “ Catalogue of Earthquakes on the Pacific Coast from 1769 to 1897,” compiled by Dr. E. S. Holden and pub- lished in the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections in 1898. The work will be prepared by an official of the United States Weather Bureau, and will bring the subject down to date. Through the courtesy of the Department of State and of the Hydrographic Office of the Navy Department, the Institution has also received informa- tion regarding recent earthquakes in Venezuela and other regions, which is available for publication.
The annual report of the Board of Regents to Congress, which is printed at the Government Printing Office, has been the chief medium through which the Institution has been enabled to dissemi- nate scientific information to the world at large. Besides the offi- cial account of the operations of the Institution, this report has for over half a century included a general appendix giving a record of the progress in different branches of knowledge, compiled largely from journals in foreign languages, and the transactions of scientific and learned societies throughout the world. The considerable num- ber of copies of this publication placed by Congress at the dis- posal of the Institution has rendered possible a wide distribution to important libraries and institutions of learning, but the allot- ment is wholly insufficient to supply more than a small fraction of the individual requests, and the popular demand for the volume has so constantly increased that the entire edition of each year’s report is exhausted within a few months of its appearance.
The Proceedings of the United States National Museum, the first volume of which was issued in 1878, are intended as a medium for the publication of original papers based on the collections of the Museum, setting forth newly acquired facts in biology, anthropology, and geology, or containing descriptions of new forms and revisions of limited groups. A volume is issued annually or oftener, for dis- tribution to libraries and scientific establishments, and in view ot the importance of the more prompt dissemination of new facts, a limited edition of each paper is printed in pamphlet form in advance. The dates at which these separate papers are published are recorded in the table of contents of the volume. The Museum Bulletins, publication of which was begun in 1875, comprise a series of more elaborate papers, issued separately, and, like the Proceedings, based chiefly, if not wholly, on the collections of the Museum. A quarto
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form of the bulletin, known as the “Special Bulletin,” has been adopted in a few instances in which a larger size of plate was deemed indispensable. Since 1902 the volumes of the series known as “ Con- tributions from the National Herbarium,” and containing papers relating to the botanical collections of the Museum, have been pub- lished as bulletins.
The annual report of the Museum is printed as a separate volume of the report of the Board of Regents to Congress.
The publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology, consist- ing of annual reports and bulletins, relate to the operations of the Bureau in its various branches of exploration and research. The most important work now in course of printing is a bulletin in two volumes entitled “* Handbook of the Indians,” which will contain a summary of all the information collected regarding the Indian tribes of the United States, arranged in alphabetical sequence for conven- ience of reference.
Volume I of the Annals of the Astrophysical Observatory was pub- lished in 1900. A second volume, which has been in preparation for some time, is nearly ready for the press. It will discuss the con- tinuation of the work of the Observatory in Washington and also the investigations on solar radiation conducted by a Smithsonian party at the solar observatory of the Carnegie Institution on Mount Wilson, California.
Two memoirs by the late Secretary Langley, entitled “ Experi- ments in Aerodynamics” and “ The Internal Work of the Wind,” were printed in 1891 and 1893, respectively, as parts of Volume X XVII of the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. A third paper, dealing with later experiments on the same subject, was to complete the volume. At the time of Mr. Langley’s demise the man- uscript was mostly prepared, but it required revision and the writing of several chapters on the engineering part of the work; and by an arrangement with Mr. Charles M. Manly. who was for a number of vears Mr. Langley’s chief assistant in aerodynamics, the memoir has been placed in his hands for completion.
The Annual Report of the American Historical Association for che year 1905 was transmitted to Congress on May 14, 1906, under the requirements of the act of incorporation of the association. The Smithsonian Institution is by law allowed a number of copies of the reports of this association, which are distributed in exchange for the publications of various foreign and American historical secieties.
There was also forwarded to Congress the eighth report of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, in accordance with the act of incorporation of that organization.
In order that the practice of the Institution in the supervision of its publications might correspond with that of the Executive Depart-
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ments as prescribed in the President’s order of January 24, 1906, an advisory committee on printing and publication was appointed by the Acting Secretary on February 7, 1906, whose personnel is as follows:
Dr. Cyrus Adler, Assistant Secretary, chairman; Dr. I. W. True, of the United States National Museum; Mr. F. W. Hedge, of the Bureau of American Ethnology; Dr. Frank Baker, of the National Zoological Park; Mr. C. G. Abbot, of the Astrophysical Observa- tory; Mr. W. I. Adams, of the International Exchanges; and Mr. A. Howard Clark, of the Smithsonian Institution.
The committee has held twenty-six meetings and has examined and reported on fifty-four manuscripts submitted for publication, be- sides numerous blank forms to be printed for use in the bureaus of the Institution. It has also advised the Acting Secretary on many matters connected with the question of printing and binding.
For the guidance of the several branches of the Institution in the preparation of manuscript and the correction of proofs the following rules, recommended by the advisory committee, were issued in March, 1906:
1. Typewritten copy is preferred. Ordinary manuscript will be accepted if the handwriting is clearly legible throughout.
2. The sheets of manuscripts should be of uniform size and consecutively numbered. The writing should be on one side of the sheets only.
3. The subject-matter of manuscripts should be maturely considered and earefully revised by authors, everything unnecessary and irrelevant being ex- cluded. Particular attention should be paid to paragraphing, punctuation, the insertion of side headings, references to illustrations, etc., as only a limited amount of correction in these particulars will be allowed in proof.
4. The whole of the manuscript must be submitted at one time, and with it all the tables and illustrations that are to be used.
5. Illustrations should be used only when necessary for the elucidation of the text; never for mere embeliishment. The copy for colored or other expen- sive illustrations should not be prepared, nor should they be employed, without special authority.
6. A list of illustrations, giving their titles in brief and such explanations as may be necessary, should accompany the manuscript. Upon each illustration should be noted its number and a reference to the manuscript page to which it relates. The places where plate and figure references are to be inserted in the text should be indicated in the manuscript.
7. The use of tables should be avoided whenever it is practicable to present results in a summarized form, and all tables should be condensed as far as pos sible.
8. In order to avoid unnecessary work in the preparation of extended treatises, authors are urgently recommended to submit in advance to the head of the bureau to which such treatise pertains an outline in writing of its proposed contents, stating the probable size of the manuscript and the number of illustra- tions required. Extended treatises should be accompanied with a table of con- tents in which the relative importance of headings is indicated.
9. Galley proof, upon which reasonable corrections and indispensable addi- tlons may be made, will be sent to the authors whenever practicable. If in
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correcting proof an author exceeds what seems to the editor reasonable, the latter will exercise his discretion as to the revisions to be accepted. No mate- rial changes will be permitted in page proof.
10. Editors employed under the Smithsonian Institution are required to see that manuscripts conform with the foregoing rules before they are sent to press. If this can not be accomplished by conference with the author, the matter must be referred to the head of the bureau under which the manuscript is to be published.
11. When ready for the press, the editor wil! send manuscripts to the head of the bureau to which they pertain, with a statement that they are in every respect ready for the printer and that the accompanying illlustrations are necessary.
12. An editor shall not depart from the form established for any series of publications without the knowledge and consent of the head of the bureau under which he is employed. When a departure from approved standards of publica- tions seems desirable, the editor should obtain a sample page for criticism and approval before the printing proceeds.
18. It is the duty of editors to see that copy for illustrations is suitable in kind and quality for the processes of reproduction proposed to be employed, and also to see that figures (especially those in outline) are reduced to a size as small as practicable for the purpose intended. All illustrations should be marked to show the size and the process of reproduction desired.
14. Editors should see that every volume is supplied with a suitable index.
Upon the recommendation of the International Commission on Zoologieal Nomenclature that genera hereafter described be assigned a type species, a rule was issued on April 3, 1906, providing that “a type species shall be designated for every new genus of animal or plant proposed in the publications of the Smithsonian Institu- tion, and it shall be the duty of the editors to see that no new genera are published without such designation.”
Two important laws relating to public printing were passed by Congress at the last session and approved by the President on March 30, 1906. One of these provides that from the general ap- propriation for public printing and binding an allotment shall be made to each Department or independent office of the Government, and that to each shall be charged the first cost of publishing all reports emanating from such Department or office. The custom heretofore has been to charge the entire cost of all public docu- ments, except in a few specific cases, against the general appro- priation without restricting the Departments in this particular.
The other law prevents accumulations of large numbers of docu- ments by providing that they shall be printed in several editions as the demand may require, the total number, however, not to exceed that authorized by law.
The first of these laws rendered it necessary that the allotment made annually to the Institution for printing the proceedings and bulletins of the Museum be extended to include the cost of the an- nual reports of the Institution and Museum, the reports of the
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American Historical Association, and the reports and bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology, all of which had previously been printed under the general appropriation for public printing and binding. The allotment made for these objects for the year ending June 30, 1907, aggregates $70,000, itemized as follows:
For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing and binding the annual reports of the Board of Regents, with general appendixes___________ $10, 000 Under the Smithsonian Institution, for the annual reports of the National Museum, with general appendixes, and for the annual re- port of the American Historical Association, and for printing labels and blanks, and for the bulletins and proceedings of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not exceed 4,000 copies, and binding, in half turkey or material not more expensive, scientific books and pamphlets presented to and acquired by the National
NC SCUMME MIDE AR ye aoe ee a eee ee ee ed ee 5 ee 39, 000 For the annual reports and bulletins of the Bureau of American HUN OLOL Viens eat ears oe ene sei eee en oes 21, 000
THE LIBRARY.
The total accessions during the year to the Smithsonian deposit in the Library of Congress and to the libraries of the Secretary’s office, the Astrophysical Observatory, the National Museum, and the Na- tional Zoological Park aggregated 33,358. There were also nu- merous additions to the library of the Bureau of American Eth- nology, which is separately administered.
One of the most important acquisitions was a unique Tibetan manuscript entitled “ Transcendental Wisdom,” received as a gift from the government of India, which has been deposited in the Na- tional Museum. A notable gift to the Museum library was the work descriptive of the Heber R. Bishop collection of jades and other hard stones. This publication, which was presented by the Bishop estate, is in two volumes of extraordinary size, prepared in the highest style of the bookmaker’s art, the edition being limited to 100 copies. The Gen. John Watts de Peyster hbrary on Napoleon and other sub- jects was increased by 1,234 volumes.
INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE.
The International Catalogue of Scientific Literature is a classified authors’ and subject catalogue of all original scientific papers pub- lished throughout the world. The organization consists of bureaus, established in each of the civilized countries, whose duty it is to furnish references to the scientific publications issued within their several regions, these references being assembled, edited, and pub- lished in seventeen annual volumes by a central bureau in London.
The cost of printing and publishing is met by the subscribers to the Catalogue, and American scientific universities, libraries, and
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scientific societies alone have shown their appreciation of the work by making advance subscriptions amounting to over $30,000. The cost of collecting and indexing the material for the Catalogue is in each case borne by the countries taking part in the work and is for the most part derived from direct governmental grants.
The work has been going on since 1901, the organization having published up to the present time sixty-seven volumes. In the begin- ning of the undertaking the Smithsonian Institution, realizing the value and importance of the work, undertook to represent the United States, and each year made a small allotment to temporarily conduct it here. As it was realized that even the small sum which the Insti- tution was able to devote to this purpose was a serious drain on its resources, the Board of Regents on March 6, 1906, adopted the fol- lowing resolution :
Resolved. That it is the sense of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution that the work of the International Catalogue of Scientific Litera- ture be continued, and that application be made to Congress for a sufficient annual appropriation to enable this work to be carried on under the direction of the Institution.
The Acting Secretary, in carrying out the directions of the Board of Regents, submitted an estimate of $5,000 to provide for the neces- sary expenses, which amount was appropriated in the sundry civil bill and became available on July 1, 1906.
The magnitude of the work will be appreciated when it is said that since the beginning of the undertaking in 1901 the London Central Bureau has received for publication over 750,000 reference cards, of which 92.492 were furnished by the Smithsonian Institu- tion, representing the original contributions of American scholars to the natural and physical sciences.
The limited funds at the disposal of the Institution have consid- erably delayed and embarrassed the work in this country. The sys- tem as at present organized is, however, capable of expansion at any time, either into fields not at present embraced within the scope of the work or in adding to the manner of presenting the index. Monthly or quarterly cards or pamphlets might, for instance, be published immediately after the appearance of the publications indexed, but such methods would only serve as adjuncts to the volumes, which would always be the permanent records.
Recently a plan has been adopted whereby authors of papers are in special cases communicated with, in order that through cooperation the subject-matter may be completely treated from the point of view of both the author and the bibliographer. While this method entails considerable clerical work, the results seem to justify the effort. Another plan which is being gradually worked out is to send to each author from time to time a list of his papers which have been indexed
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at the Institution for the Catalogue, with the request that attention be called to any omission or errors. ‘These two plans, were it possible to devote sufficient time to them, would render the work as exact as it is possible to make a complex index. Besides the value of these plans for the Catalogue itself, they keep the Institution in relation with the entire body of scientific workers in the United States and incidentally result in considerable accessions to the Library.
The supreme control of the Catalogue is vested in an international convention, and during the interval between two successive meet- ings of the convention the administration is conducted by an inter- national council. A meeting of the International Convention was held in London in July, 1905, and was attended by Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, of the United States National Museum, as delegate of the Smithsonian Institution. In view of the success already achieved by the Catalogue, the convention determined to continue it for a further period of at least five years.
PRESERVATION OF AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES.
For several years there has been increasing necessity for legisla- tion to prevent the wanton destruction of the interesting aboriginal ruins in the southwestern part of the United States, and a law, ap- proved June 8, 1906, prohibits the excavation, injury, or destruction of any prehistoric ruin or monument on lands under the control of the United States without the permission of the secretary of the Department of the Government having jurisdiction. It further provides that the President may by proclamation declare such his- toric sites and prehistoric structures to be national monuments.
The sundry civil act approved June 30, 1906, contains an appro- priation of $3,000, to be expended under the supervision of the Sec- retary of the Smithsonian Institution for the protection of the Casa Grande ruin in Pinal County, near Florence, Arizona, and for exca- vations on the reservation.
GIFTS TO THE INSTITUTION.
The Institution has from the beginning been the recipient of many gifts from individuals and establishments, but these have not been enumerated in detail in the Secretary’s report. The donations of books and pamphlets are referred to in the report of the Library, and of objects and specimens in that of the Museum, while the two large collections of art acquired during the year are discussed on a subsequent page under the heading “ National Gallery of Art.”
Mention should be made here, however, of the fact that the heirs of Secretary Langley presented to the Institution the medals and
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tokens received by him in recognition of his contributions to the ad- vancement of knowledge, including the Rumford gold medals from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of London, the Henry Draper gold medal from the National Acad- emy of Sciences, and the gold medal from the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of France, and also the Rumford silver medals from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of London.
CORRESPONDENCE.
One of the important duties of the Institution is the conduct of its correspondence, not alone such as relates to its administrative affairs, but likewise to the mass of inquiries received from all parts of the country and indeed from every quarter of the globe, regarding al- most every conceivable subject. It is not the policy of the Institu- tion to encourage such requests unless they pertain to matters in- cluded within its scope, in which event, however, every effort is made to improve the opportunity for increasing or diffusing knowledge in accordance with the prime purposes of its foundation. Inquiries relating to subjects within the scope of other governmental agencies are referred to the proper sources of information and the writers so informed, but the amount of correspondence along legitimate lines of inquiry is very great and entails much labor upon both the scientific and the clerical staffs.
In addition to the correspondence handled directly from the offices of the Institution proper, each of the bureaus under its direction con- ducts its own correspondence with large numbers of individuals and institutions desiring information upon the subjects to which their activities relate. The National Museum, for example, sends out annually thousands of letters concerning specimens transmitted for identification and a knowledge of their characteristics, while the National Zoological Park disseminates much valuable data regarding living animals. A large amount of authentic information about the American Indian, present and past, emanates annually from the Bureau of American Ethnology of this Institution. There is also a growing public interest in matters relating to astrophysics, and to the component elements in the sun and other celestial bodies, as mani- fested in a rapid increase in the amount of correspondence received by the Institution regarding this branch of scientific investigation.
Numerous letters are received from inventors making application for grants of money with which to develop their various devices, or asking an expression of the Institution’s opinion as to the merits of their respective inventions. The Institution has no funds from which such aid can be given, and the Secretary is, moreover, obliged
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to refuse all requests for an opinion in these matters, since such action is prohibited by a decision of the Board of Regents. The In- stitution furthermore does not endeavor to supply information of a commercial nature, such as is customarily furnished for a fee by engineers or other professional advisers.
In spite of these restrictions, however, the correspondence is, as has been stated, an important agency in the diffusion of knowledge.
EXPOSITIONS, CONGRESSES, AND CELEBRATIONS.
Expositions.—The Institution and its bureaus were represented at the Lewis and Clark Exposition, held in Portland, Oregon, from June 1 to October 15, 1905, mainly by a selection from the objects which had been exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, as nar- rated, on a subsequent page, in the report of the representative Dr. Frederick W. True.
Models of the Langley aerodrome, some photographs and books, and a number of plane surfaces and other apparatus were lent for an exhibition by the Aero Club of America, held in New York from January 138 to 20, 1906. This club subsequently adopted a series of resolutions expressing its appreciation of the important achieve- ments of Secretary Langley in investigating the laws of dynamic flight and in the construction of a series of working models which on trial had successfully demonstrated the principles of mechanical flight.
Congresses.—The Institution was invited to participate in a num- ber of international congresses including the Congress of Anthro- pology and Prehistoric Archeology, held in Monaco in April, 1906, but the duties of the staff were so exacting during the year that it was found impossible to detail any of its members to be present at these important scientific gatherings.
Franklin celebration—The two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin was celebrated at Philadelphia by the American Philosophical Society, from April 17 to 20, 1906, the Institution being represented by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, a Regent. A formal address, suitably engrossed, was presented to the society, and the Institution received a copy of the commemorative medal struck in honor of the occasion.
Aberdeen University.—In response to an invitation to participate in the ceremonies attending the four hundredth anniversary of the founding of the University of Aberdeen, to take place in September, 1906, Prof. Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, honorary curator of the division of minerals in the National Museum, has been appointed to represent the Institution on that occasion.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
National Academy of Sciences—In accordance with the custom of many years the National Academy of Sciences was granted the use of the lecture hall in the National Museum for its annual meet- ing from April 16 to 18, 1906.
California Academy of Sciences——The Institution has assisted the California Academy of Sciences in rehabilitating its hbrary, which was entirely destroyed by the earthquake and fire at San Francisco in April, 1906, by duplicating, as far as possible, the sets of the Smithsonian publications and by soliciting and forwarding to the academy the published works of learned institutions in this country and abroad.
Fire protection of buildings—During the fiscal year a committee was appointed to examine the buildings of the Institution and the Museum and to suggest regulations for their further safeguard against danger from fire. The report of this committee contained valuable recommendations, which have been put into effect.
International Bureau of Ethnography.—At the Congress on the Economic Expansion of the World, held at Mons, Belgium, in Sep- tember, 1905,a number of recommendations were formulated, includ- ing one for the organization by the Belgian Government of an inter- national bureau of ethnography, whose purposes were stated to be>
1. The framing of ethnographical and sociological interrogatories.
2. The transmission of these interrogatories through the proper authorities to colonial officers, explorers, ete.
3. The publication of the answers to such interrogatories.
4. The distribution of these answers, and cooperation in the investigations.
The Smithsonian Institution was invited to cooperate in the organization and promotion of the objects of this bureau, but after careful consideration it was found that most of the objects to be secured thereby were already included within the scope of the pres- ent activities of the Institution and its bureaus, particularly in the National Museum, where all collections belenging to the United States are deposited, and in the Bureau of American Ethnology, which is engaged upon investigations of the primitive peoples of this country. The National Museum is at all times prepared, so far as its collections allow, to enter into exchange relations with the museums of other countries, and this part of the proposed scheme could be carried on among the various countries that are interested without the establishment of a new bureau.
It was found, moreover, that a very considerable sl] are of the general expense incident to the proposed international bureau would
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entail upon the United States without the possibility of a commen- surate return. Since it is enabled by its present system to infor- mally obtain most of the international advantages which would be obtained through the proposed organization, the Institution, while acceding in principle to the project, nevertheless felt obliged to decline an active participation therein.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART.
The curatorship of the art collections of the nation was confided to the Smithsonian Institution by the Congressional act of 1846, providing for its establishment, in terms as follows:
Whenever suitable arrangements can be made from time to time for their reception, all objects of art and of foreign and curious research, and ali objects of natural history, plants, and geological and mineralogical specimens belonging to the United States * * * shall be delivered to such persons as may be authorized by the Board of Regents to receive them, and shall be so arranged and classified in the building erected for the Institution as best to facilitate the examination and study of them.
During its early years this object was promoted in various ways: Rooms for the gallery of art were especially designed in the Smith- sonian building, a very valuable collection of prints and engravings assembled by the Hon. George P. Marsh was purchased, a selection of casts was secured abroad, and loan collections of paintings and sculpture were placed upon exhibition. In 1866 the prints were placed for temporary safe-keeping in the Library of Congress, and in 1874, and again in 1879, various art objects belonging to the Institution were deposited in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which had been established a few years before. With the definite organi- ' gation of the National Museum, art collections of various classes were secured, notably in the graphic arts, ceramics, metal, lacquer work, ivories, etc.
Suitable fireproof quarters for the collections belonging to the Institution were subsequently provided under a special appropria- tion by Congress, but their recall was deferred until 1896, when formal action in the matter was taken by the Board of Regents. Some of the prints, however, are still at the Library of Congress, and a few other works of art, notably a large painting by Healy, at the Corcoran Gallery.
While the title “ Gallery of Art” may have seemed presumptuous for this small though relatively valuable collection, recent events have justified the expectation that sooner or later the nation was certain to possess such a gallery of genuine merit. Two benefactions are to be recorded in the history of the past year, both so far exceeding any previous ones as to mark a distinctively new era
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in the building up of the National Gallery of Art. One of these was a gift from Mr. Charles L. Freer, of Detroit, Michigan; the other a bequest from the late Harriet Lane Johnston, of Washington.
THE ART COLLECTIONS OF CHARLES L. FREER.
Under date of January 3, 1905, Mr. Charles L. Freer, of Detroit, Michigan, transmitted to the Institution an offer to bequeath or make present conveyance of title to his valuable private art collections to the Smithsonian Institution or the Government, under certain condi- tions, proposing at the same time to provide for the construction, after his death, of a building of appropriate design and proportion to receive the collections, provided that the Institution or the Govern- ment would undertake its maintenance. Consideration was given to this proposal by the Board of Regents at several meetings, and on January 24, 1906, the offer was accepted on terms slightly modified by Mr. Freer, as conveyed in a letter addressed to the President of the United States, as follows:
WASHINGTON, D. C., December 15, 1905. To the PRESIDENT:
Permit me to repeat my offer to bequeath my art collections to the Smith- sonian Institution or to the United States Government, and also the sum of $500,000 in money for the purpose of constructing a suitable building in which to house them, upon the following terms and conditions:
First. The sum of $500,000 shall be paid by my executors to the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution or the United States Government promptly after my decease, and shall be used forthwith for the construction of a fireproof building connected with the National Museum, the construction of which has been recently authorized, or reasonably near thereto. :
Second. The interior of this building shall be arranged with special regard for the convenience of students and others desirous of an opportunity for unin- terrupted study. A suitable space shall be provided in which the Peacock Room should be re-erected complete. The whole interior arrangement of the building shall be agreed upon between the Regents of the Smithsonian Insti- tution and myself within a reasonable time after the acceptance of this offer.
Third. The collections, with such additions thereto as shall be made during my lifetime, shall be delivered by my executors to the Regents immediately after the building is constructed and ready to receive them.
Fourth. The collections and the buildings shall be cared for and maintained perpetually by the Smithsonian Institution or the United States Government at its own expense.
Fifth. No addition or deduction shall be made to the collections after my death, and nothing else shall ever be exhibited with them, or in the same building, nor shall the said collections, or any part thereof, be removed at any time from the said building except when necessary for the purpose of making repairs or renovations in the building.
Sixth. No charge shall ever be made for admission to the building or for the privilege of examining or studying the collections.
Seventh. The collections and building shall always bear my name in some modest and appropriate form,
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In lieu of the foregoing offer, I am willing, upon the conditions above expressed, to make a present conveyance of the title to said collections to the Institution or the Government, and a bequest of the sum of $500,000 for the building, provided:
1. The collections shall remain in my possession during my life, and in the possession of my executors after my death until the completion of the building.
2. I shall have the right to make such additions to the collections as may seem to me advisable or necessary for the improvement of the collections, or any of them.
3. On or before April next I will file with the efficials of the Smithsonian Institution or the United States Government a descriptive inventory of the objects belonging to the collections.
4. Both I and my executors shall be free from any liability on account of any less in or danger that may accrue to the collections while in my or their charge, even though such loss or injury shall occur by reason of my or their negligence, or the negligence of my or their servants. agents or employees.
The exact form of the bequest or gift, and the details for carrying it into execution, are legal questions that can be agreed upon by counsel representing the Institution or the Government and myself.
I am, with great respect, very sincerely yours, . CHARLES L. FREER.
Following is the resolution of acceptance, adopted by the Board on January 24, 1906:
The Board of Regents, recognizing the great value to the people of the United States of the art collection so generously offered by Mr. Charles L. Freer, of Detroit, Michigan ;
Resolved, That the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution do hereby accept the tender of Mr. Freer to make present conveyance to the Institu- tion of the title to his art collection, and to bequeath to the Institution the sam of -$500,000 for the construction of a fireproof building in which to house it, under the terms as stated in his communication to the President of the United States dated December 15. 1905.
The conveyance was finally executed on May 5, 1906, in the follow- ing terms:
Know all men by these presents that Charles L. Freer, of the city of Detroit, county of Wayne, and State of Michigan, party of the first part, for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar and of other valuable considerations to him in hand paid by the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment created by act of Congress, party of the second part, the receipt whereof is acknowledged, has bargained and sold, and by these presents does grant and convey unto the said party of the second part, and unto its successors, the art objects belonging to said party of the first part and now in his possession at No. 33 Ferry avenue east, in the city of Detroit, Michigan, particularly enumerated in the printed inventory hereto attached and made a part hereof; to have and to hold the same woto the said party of the second part, and its successors forever.
The said party of the first part for himself, his heirs, executors and adminis- trators, does covenant and agree to and with the said party of the second part, and its successors, to warrant and defend the sale hereby made of said property, goods and chattels unto the said party of the second part, and its successors, against all and every person or persons whatsoever.
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This transfer and sale is made by said party of the first part, and is accepted by said party of the second part, upon the following terms and conditions, which are hereby declared to be binding obligations upon the parties hereto:
1. Said first party shall bequeath to said party of the second part under the terms of his last will and testament the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, which shall be paid by the executors of said party of the first part to said party of the second part promptly after the death of said party of the first part. Said sum shall be used forthwith after the receipt thereof by said party of the second part exclusively in the construction and equipment of a fireproof building connected with the National Museum, or reasonably near thereto, upon a site to be furnished by said party of the second part, according to plans and specifications which shall be agreed upon as soon as may be aiter the date hereof between said party of the first part and the Regents of said Institution; provided that any portion of said sum that shall remain unexpended after a building planned to take said sum for its construction and equipment shall have been completed may be used by said Institution for purposes connected with said building and its collection. Said building shall be used exclusively for storing and exhibiting the objects covered by this instrument and such objects as may hereafter be transferred by said first party to said second party. In the event that plans and specifications are not agreed upon prior to the death of said first party, said building shall be constructed and equipped by said Institution with the sum so bequeathed with special regard for the con- venience of students and others desirous of an opportunity for uninterrupted study of the objects embraced hereunder. A suitable space shall be provided in said building in which the Peacock Room mentioned in said inventory shall be re-erected complete.
2. Said first party may add other appropriate objects, to be selected by him, to those enumerated in said inventory, and such other objects when transferred to said second party shall be subject in all respects to the terms and conditions enumerated in this instrument.
3. The objects embraced in said inventory, with such additions thereto as shall be made by said first party during his lifetime and transferred to said second party, shall be delivered by the executors of said first party to said Institution in said building immediately after the building shall have been con- structed and ready to receive them.
4. The said building, when constructed, and the objects when delivered, shall be cared for and maintained perpetually by said second party, or its successors, at its own expense.
5. After such delivery no addition shall be made to said objects, nor shall any deduction be made therefrom, and no other objects of any kind shall ever be exhibited in connection with said objects, or in the same building. nor shall the said objects, or any part thereof, be removed at any time from said build- ing, except when necessary for the purpose of making repairs or renovations in the building.
6. No charge shall ever be made for admission to the building nor for the privilege of examining or studying the objects contained therein.
7. The collections and building shall always bear the name of said first party in some modest and appropriate form.
8. All objects covered by said inventory and by said subsequent transfers shall remain in the possession of said first party during his lifetime, and in the possession of his executors after his death until the said building is fully com- pleted. Said first party shall have the right during his lifetime to loan any of said objects for exhibition purposes.
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9. Said first party and his executors shall be free from any liability on account of any loss in or damage that may accrue to the whole or any of said objects before the delivery thereof to said second party, notwithstanding the fact that such loss or damage may accrue by reason of his or their negligence or the negligence of his or their servants, agents or employees.
It is the intention and meaning of the parties hereto that the title to the objects mentioned in the inventory hereto attached passes immediately to said second party, and that the title to all objects which may be added to those in said inventory mentioned, and which may be covered by subsequent transfers to said second party, shall pass immediately to said second party. upon the delivery to it of each instrument of subsequent transfer.
In witness whereof the said party of the first part has hereunto set his hand and seal, and said party of the second part has caused this instrument to be executed in duplicate by its Acting Secretary and its seal to be hereto affixed, this fifth day of May, 1906.
(Signed) CHARLES L. FREER, [SEAL] SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, (Signed) By RicHARD RATHBUN,
Acting Secretary. Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of—
(Signed ) Hersert E. Boynton. [SEAL] (Signed) Frank W. HACKETT. [ SEAL. ]
The printed inventory which accompanied and was made a part of the above conveyance enumerates above 2,250 objects, which may be briefly summarized as follows:
By James McNeill Whistler, 119 paintings in oil, water color, and pastel; 100 drawings and sketches, 3 wood engravings, 600 etchings and dry points, 165 lithographs, and all the decorations of the famous Peacock room. By the American artists, Dwight W. Tryon, Thomas W. Dewing, and Abbott H. Thayer, 60 paintings in oil, water color, and pastel. Of oriental paintings, 298 kakemono and makimono, 121 screens and 53 panels, by various masters of Japanese and Chinese schools, from the tenth to the nineteenth century, including Ririomin. Sesshu, Sesson, Motonobu, Tanyu, Koyetsu, Sotatsu, Korin, Kenzan, Hoitsu, Okio, and Hokusai; besides 4 albums of Japanese art and 13 Tibetan paintings. Of oriental pottery, 953 pieces from Japan, China, Korea, Central Asia, Persia, and Arabia. There is also a small collection of ancient Chinese and Japanese bronzes and some lacquer work by Koyetsu, Korin, and Ritsuwo.
THE ART COLLECTION OF HARRIET LANE JOHNSTON.
Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston, the niece of James Buchanan, who had accompanied him when minister abroad and who was mistress of the White House during his term as President, had assembled at her home in Washington some important works of art, including a
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number of paintings by distinguished masters, and numerous articles of historical interest and value. Upon her decease on July 3, 1903, it was found that she had bequeathed this entire collection to the Corcoran Gallery of Art under certain specified conditions and sub- ject to the provision “ that in the event that the Government of the United States shall establish in the city of Washington a national art gallery that the said articles shall, upon the establishment of said national art gallery, be, by the said trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and their successors, delivered to the said national art gal- lery, and upon such delivery shall become the absolute property of the said national art gallery established by the United States.”
The conditions were of such a character as to cause the Corcoran Gallery to decline the bequest. From what has subsequently been learned Mrs. Johnston seems not to have been aware that the Smith- sonian Institution had been named as the depository for the objects of art belonging to the nation, possibly from the fact that it had never been formally designated as the National Gallery of Art.
The executors of the will, although desiring to carry out its intent and render possible the maintenance of the collection in its integrity in Washington, felt themselves without authority to award it to the Smithsonian Institution under the circumstances, and the Congress then in session (1903-4) was too near its close to secure what was then deemed necessary legislation, although an appropriate resolu- tion was introduced in the Senate.
The annual message of President Roosevelt to the Fifty-eighth Con- gress, third session (dated December 6, 1904), contains the following clause:
The collections of art contemplated in section 5586 of the Revised Statutes should be designated and established as a national gallery of art, and the Smith-
sonian Institution should be authorized to accept any additions to said collection that may be received by gift, bequest, or devise.
No action followed in Congress, but the executors of the Johnston estate still feeling it incumbent upon them to prevent the disposal of the collection by sale, filed a suit on February 7, 1905, in the su- preme court of the District of Columbia, asking a construction of certain doubtful clauses in the testament. By direction of the President, the Attorney-General, on behalf of the United States, on February 10, 1905, entered its appearance in the suit, claiming an interest in the matter.
It is understood that all the legatees under the will agreed to the con- tention of the Government except the Harriet Lane Home, of Balti- more, founded by Mrs. Johnston, which had an interest in the residuary estate, and which, from a sense of obligation to a public charity, deemed a judicial decision necessary, although some of the
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trustees of the Home were in favor of having the objects kept to- gether as a perpetual memorial to their deceased relative and friend. On October 23, 1905, the Government filed its full answer to the bill of the Harriet Lane Home and its further petition that the United States be declared to have established a National Art Gallery at and in connection with the Smithsonian Institution. Testimony was sub- mitted on the part of the Institution before an examiner on June 8, 1906. The decision was favorable to the Institution, and the decree of the court is of exceptional importance, since it definitely establishes the fact that the collection of art contemplated in the fundamental act is the National Gallery of Art within the meaning and intent of the law. The full text of the decree is as follows:
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
D. K. Este FISHER, AND OTHERS, EXECUTORS AND Trustees under the Last Will and Testament of Harriet Lane Johnston, deceased,
V.
Harriet LANE HOME FoR INVALID CHILDREN OF BALTI-
more City, and others.
Equity, No. 25,160. Doe.
This cause coming on for hearing In respect to the subject matters set forth in the Thirteenth Paragraph of the Bill of Complaint; the allegations of the said paragraph, the Answers thereto of the several Defendants, the provisions of the Last Will and Testament and of the several codicils thereto of the Testatrix, Harriet Lane Johnston, and the testimony taken on behalf of the United States of America in support of its answer to the allegations of the said thirteenth paragraph of the Bill of Complaint, having been by the Court, (after argument of counsel for the United States of America and for the Defendant the Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children of Baltimore City, the residuary legatee and devisee named in the said Last Will and Testament of the said Testatrix) fully considered,
It is, therefore, on this eleventh day of July, in the year 1906, by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, sitting in Equity, and by the authority thereof, adjudged, ordered and decreed,
That there has been established by the United States of America in the City of Washington a National Art Gallery, within the scope and meaning of that part of the codicil bearing date April 21, 1902, made by the said Harriet Lane Johnston to her Last Will and Testament, in the proceedings in this case men- tioned, wherein she gave and bequeathed the pictures, miniatures and other articles, to the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and in the event of the Government establishing in the City of Washington a National Art Gallery, then that the said pictures and other articles above mentioned should be de- jivered to the said National Art Gallery and become its property; and that the said National Art Gallery is the National Art Gallery established by the United States of America at, and in connection with, the Smithsonian Institution located in the District of Columbia and described in the Act of Congress entitled an Act to establish the “ Smithsonian Institution” for the Increase and Diffusion of
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Knowledge among men, approved August 10, 1846, 9 Stat. L. 103, (Title LX XIII, Section 5579 R. S. U. S.) and the subsequent Acts of Congress amendatory thereof; and it is further adjudged, ordered and decreed, that the United States of America is entitled to demand and receive from the surviving Executors of the said Harriet Lane Johnston, the Complainants named in the Bill of Com- plaint in this case, all of the above mentioned pictures, articles of sculpture, engravings, miniatures and other articles, the same to be and become a part of the said National Art Gallery so established by the United States of America at, and in connection with, the said Smithsonian Institution.
And whereas, the said Testatrix, Harriet Lane Johnston, in bequeath- ing the said pictures and other articles to the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in and by the codicil hereinbefore mentioned to her said Will, made it a condition of the said bequest that the said articles should be kept together in a room provided for the purpose, and to be designated as the ‘ Harriet Lane Johnston Collection;’ and whereas it is apparent that it was the design of the said Testatrix if the said pictures and other articles bequeathed in connection with the same should belong to, and become a part of the National Art Gallery established in the City of Washington by the United States of America, that the above mentioned provision for the keeping together in a room all of the said articles so bequeathed, and that the same should be designated as the “ Harriet Lane Johnston Collec- tion” (prescribed as the condition upon which the same should become the property of the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art) should be the condition upon which they should become part of the National Art Gallery established by the United States of America,
Now therefore, it is further adjudged, ordered and decreed, as a condition upon which the title of the United States of America shall be acquired in the said pictures and other articles hereinbefore mentioned, that the same shall all be kept, so as to form one distinct collection, in one hall or room in one of the buildings of the Smithsonian Institution, the several classes of the said articles being arranged and located in said hall or room according to the best judgment of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; and that in an appropriate, prominent and permanent way, the said Collection shall be designated and declared to be the “ Harriet Lane Johnston Collection.”
And it is further adjudged, ordered and decreed, that the costs of the pro- ceedings in this case in connection with this decree shall be paid by the com- plainants as Hxecutors of Harriet Lane Johnston, deceased.
WENDELL P. SrarrorD, Justice.
As a result of this decree the Harriet Lane Johnston collection was delivered to the Institution on August 3, 1906. It consists of 31 pieces and comprises, besides works of art, several interesting histor- ical objects. Among the paintings are a number by well-known masters, whose productions are now difficult if not impossible to obtain. The list is as follows: Painting, Madonna and Child, by Bernardino Luini; painting, Madonna and Child, after Correggio; portrait of Lady Essex as Juliet, by Sir Thomas Lawrence; portrait of Miss Kirkpatrick, by George Romney; portrait of Mrs. Abington, by John Hoppner; portrait of Mrs. Hammond, by Sir Joshua Reynolds; portrait of Miss Murray, by Sir William Beechey; paint- ing, The Valley Farm, by John Constable; portrait of the Prince of
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Wales (King Edward VII) at the time of his visit to the United States, by Sir John Watson Gordon; portrait of Josepha Boegart, by Francis Pourbous, the younger; portrait of Madam Tulp, by Janssens; painting, a street scene in India, by E. L. Weeks; paint- ing, “ Independence,” by Meyer; a valuable small Roman mosaic; an old engraving of John Hampden; painting, President Buchanan and the Prince of Wales (King Edward VII) with his suite, the Cabinet, and others, at the tomb of Washington, Mount Vernon, by Thomas Rossiter; portrait of President Buchanan, by Eichholtz; miniature of President Buchanan, by Henry Brown; marble bust of President Buchanan, by Dexter; marble bust of Mr. Johnston, by Rhinehart; portrait of James Buchanan Johnston, by Harper Pen- nington; marble Cupid, the likeness of Henry E. Johnston when 2 years old, by Rhinehart; the first message sent over the Atlantic cable, from Queen Victoria to President Buchanan, and the reply by the latter; silver medal commemorative of the marriage of Victoria, Princess Royal of England, to Frederick William, Crown Prince of Germany, with a letter of transmittal from H. R. H. Albert, Prince Consort, to President Buchanan; letter to President Buchanan from the Prince of Wales (King Edward VII), transmitting his portrait; two autograph letters from Queen Victoria to President Buchanan, relating to the visit of the Prince of Wales to the United States, dated June 22 and November 19, 1860; photograph of Queen Vic- toria, with autograph signature and date “1898,” presented by the Queen to Mrs. Johnston; gavel used at the Cincinnati convention, June, 1856, at which Buchanan was nominated for the Presidency ; Bible on which Buchanan took the oath of office as President, March 4, 1857.
NATIONAL MUSEUM.
The National Museum is carrying on its operations as effectively as possible, though two obstacles have for many years stood in the way of perfecting its condition—lack of space and an insufficient staff. The first of these will soon be removed, and it is hoped that action on the other will not long be delayed.
The granite structure now being erected will be monumental in character and cover a larger area than any other Government build- ing in the city except the Capitol. Its four stories will contain nearly 10 acres of floor space, which has been laid out to meet the several requirements of exhibition, storage, and workrooms. Two years have elapsed since the ground was broken, and in view of cer- tain unavoidable delays another like period will probably be con- sumed in its completion, but this length of time can not be regarded as excessive, considering the massive character of the building and
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the superior quality of the materials and workmanship which enter into its construction.
The rapid growth of the national collections is only what was to be expected in a country so extensive and of such exceeding wealth of resources in its natural products, in its aborigines, and in the activi- ties of its civilization. The illustration of all of these fields was contemplated in the original plan of organization, and contributions relating to them all have been pouring in for more than fifty years.
The Museum has never had an adequate amount of space at any period in its history, not even when it began to occupy its present brick building, since collections of sufficient extent to fill it were already on hand. The accumulation of material has gone on still more rapidly in recent years, taxing to the utmost the energies of the small staff to Insure its preservation. The public halls are conse- quently more utilized for storage than for exhibition, and visitors find it difficult to circulate among the cases. The laboratories offer scant space for the examination of specimens, and several rented buildings are completely filled with collections of great value.
The acquisitions of the past year have amounted to over a quarter of a million specimens, pertaining to practically all of the subjects comprised in the museum classification. They were derived from a great variety of sources and largely by transfer from the Govern- ment surveys. The number of private donations and exchanges was very large, and one of the former was of unusual extent and value. It consisted of a collection of 75,000 specimens of Lepidoptera from North and South America, including many types and rare species, assembled by Mr. William Schaus and by him generously presented to the National Museum.
In connection with the work of classifying the collections the assistants and collaborators have made many important contribu- tions to science, and the several publications of the year in which these were printed are fully up to the standard so long maintained. Irom the duplicates recently separated from the reserve collections nearly 20,000 specimens, made up into about 260 sets, were distributed to schools and colleges in the interest of education.
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY.
The field investigations by the Bureau of American Ethnology related to the Indians of Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Florida, but were not as extensive as usual because of the amount of work required to be done at the office in Washington. The preparation of manuscript and reading of proafs for the Handbook of the Indians occupied the attention of most of the members of the staff and of several experts
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connected with other establishments for shorter or longer periods throughout the year. This large work, which has often been referred to in past reports, will be practically a résumé of all that is known regarding the aborigines of the United States, based upon informa- tion from every possible source, including the unpublished records of the Bureau.
The matter is arranged alphabetically for convenience of refer- ence, and the two octavo volumes of which it will consist will be pro- fusely illustrated. From the point of view of general interest it will be the most important publication which the Bureau has issued. The correcting of the proofs of the first volume was nearing comple- tion at the close of the year.
Considerable progress was also made on the Handbook of Indian Languages, the main part of which will consist of sketches of sixteen American languages, and reports and bulletins relating to a num- ber of other subjects were completed or in course of preparation.
With a view to assisting the Departments of the Government hav- ing custody of the public domain in the preservation of American antiquities, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved June 8, 1906, the Bureau has been active in compiling a card cata- logue of archeological sites, especially the ruined pueblos and cliff dwellings, and has made good progress in the preparation of a series of bulletins giving information concerning these antiquities.
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES.
The International Exchange Service, initiated by the Smithsonian Institution in the early years of its existence, for the interchange of scientific publications between learned societies and individuals in the United States and those of foreign countries, and later desig- nated by the United States Government as the agency for the transmission of sets of official documents to selected depositories throughout the world, has effectually discharged the commissions intrusted to it. Of the maximum hmit of 100 copies of all Gov- ernment publications, authorized by law to be distributed under the direction of the Library of Congress, from time to time, to important governmental libraries in European and other countries, 80 complete or partial sets have now been assigned and are being transmitted by the exchange service to their respective destinations. Additional public documents, issued from month to month, are forwarded promply to the various depositories.
The Institution has continued its endeavor, through the proper channels, to secure the fullest cooperation on the part of all civilized governments in reciprocally receiving and distributing within their
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own borders transmissions from the United States and in dispatch- ing to this country similar sendings from its own scientific and educational institutions and citizens. Some important changes in connection with the details of this service have been made during the year, which have resulted in greater dispatch and efficiency.
Steps have recently been taken through which it is hoped that the British Government may establish a bureau of its own, thus relieving the Smithsonian Institution from maintaining a special agency in London for the receipt and distribution of exchanges with Great Britain.
It is gratifying to state that through the efforts of the Hon. W. W. Rockhill, American minister at Peking, the long-pending exchange negotiations with China have been brought to a successful conclu- sion, the Shanghai bureau of foreign affairs having been designated as the representative of the Chinese Government in this matter. Efforts are being made to resume exchange relations with Korea, the transmissions to that country having been carried on heretofore through the courtesy of the Russian commission of international exchanges at St. Petersburg,
Through the offices of the Department of State and of the Ameri- can minister at Rome, the exchange service between Italy and the United States has been placed upon a more efficient basis. The government of Lourenco Marquez has been added to the countries to receive full sets of official documents, in exchange for which the authorities of Portuguese East Africa are to send to the United States not only the publications of Lourenco Marquez, but also those of the province of Mozambique and of different chartered companies.
The total weight of packages handled by the International Exchanges for the year was 471,559 pounds, and the number of cor- respondents throughout the world has reached 56,414, an increase of 4,434 over the preceding year.
I record with regret the death on June 23, 1906, of Dr. Joseph von K6résy, who had served as exchange agent of the Institution at Budapest, Hungary, since 1897. He was the first agent of the In- stitution for that country, and had taken special interest in the work, materially increasing the number of packages received from correspondents in Hungary. Mr. Julius Pikler was appointed, tem- porarily, to succeed him.
Owing to the death of Dr. Paul Leverkiihn, director of the scien- tific institutions and library of His Royal Highness the Prince of Bulgaria, the transmission of exchanges to that country has been temporarily suspended, but it is expected that it will soon be resumed.
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NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK.
In administering the affairs of the National Zoological Park, the purposes defined by Congress in the act of organization, namely, the advancement of science and the instruction and recreation of the people, have been kept constantly in view, though on account of insufficient funds it has been impossible to promote these aims to the extent desired. It is hoped that this condition will be rec- tified in the near future, but that the park is already an assured success and that its objects are well appreciated is evidenced by the large number of visitors, which, during the past year, exceeded half a million.
Extreme care has been taken to preserve its very picturesque natural features, and forming, as it does, an essential part of the extensive parking system of the Rock Creek Valley, the mainte- nance of its driveways and paths has been the subject of constant attention.
The inadequacy of the appropriations for the proper equipment of the park has made it necessary to exercise an unwise economy 1n the construction of its buildings and other shelters, the majority of which are of a cheap and temporary character, and sooner or later must be replaced. The large building lately planned on a substan- tial and permanent basis has now been in course of erection during three years, since only small annual allotments could be assigned to the purpose, and its completion must await the appropriation for 1907.
Among the pressing needs is a small building, with outlying yards, which can be used as a hospital and quarantine for sick animals and also serve as a pathological and anatomical laboratory, in partial furtherance of the primary object of the park—the advancement of science. It is hoped that funds can be spared to begin upon this structure, the importance of which is very great, during the ensuing year.
The economy of establishing a central heating plant has long been recognized, but this feature has also been delayed for the reasons ' already stated. A beginning was made, however, during the past year, the boilers being placed in an extension of the temporary work- shop and connections made with the three nearest buildings.
Congress has recently authorized the construction of streets at short distances from the western and southeastern boundaries of the park,