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REPORT
OF THE
SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION CHARLES D. WALCOTT,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1909.
To the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution:
GENTLEMEN: I have the honor to submit a report showing the oper- ations of the Institution during the year ending June 30, 1969, including the work placed under its direction by Congress in the United States National Museum, the Bureau of American Ethnology, the International Exchanges, the National Zoological Park, the Astrophysical Observatory, and the regional bureau of the Inter- national Catalogue of Scientific Literature.
In the body of this report there is given a general account of the affairs of the Institution, while the appendix presents more detailed statements by those in direct charge of the different 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 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 the executive departments.”
THE BOARD OF REGENTS.
The Board of Regents consists of the Vice-President and the Chief Justice of the United States as ex officio members, three members of the Senate, three Members of the House of Representatives, and six citizens, “two of whom shall be resident in the city of Washington, and the other four shall be inhabitants of some State, but no two of them of the same State.”
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There has been no change in the personnel of the Board since my last report.
Meetings of the Regents were held on December 15, 1908, and on February 10, 1909, the proceedings of which will be printed as cus- tomary in the annual report of the Board to Congress.
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS.
I deem it proper here to point out the fact that the activities of the Institution are greatly restricted by the very limited annual income at its disposal.
The influence of the Institution in the development of science in this country is too well known to require comment. Its advice is daily sought on scientific matters, not only by other establishments of learning but by individuals all over the land, and that its usefulness has been by no means restricted to this country is evidenced by the fact that the name of the Smithsonian Institution is equally as well known and respected abroad as at home.
But the means derived from the interest on the Smithson fund and other private funds for keeping up the work of the Institution proper have not kept pace with the growth of the country and the constantly increasing demands upon them. The original amount of the Smithson fund of about half a million dollars meant many times over in 1846 what it does to-day, even with the half million which has been gradually added since then. Its income has been economically administered, but it is too limited to carry on.any ex- tensive investigations. There are many researches and explorations which the Institution is peculiarly well fitted to organize and super- vise, on which the income from an endowment of twenty millions could be wisely and effectively expended.
The Institution has in the past few years received a number of noteworthy gifts in the Harriet Lane Johnston, Freer, and Evans art collections, and an endowment for the fine arts would give a great return for centuries to come by making possible the fostering and stimulating of the fine arts in all its branches.
Under the general plan of organization adopted by the Board of Regents in 1847, the work of the Institution in the “ increase of knowledge” is not limited to investigations in the field of science and art, but historical and ethnological researches, and statistical inquiries with reference to physical, moral, and political subjects, are enumerated as objects for which appropriations should be made.
In the humanities there is need of a fearless, thorough, scientific study of the elements entering into the great race problems of the Americas. Until the fundamental tendencies of the differing races now within these areas are intelligently understood, not only by the few, but by the many, a practical understanding of threatening social
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conditions is impossible. The uplift of the physical, mental, and moral nature of the peoples of the Americas will come only through the increase and diffusion of such knowledge as will stimulate sound reasoning on existing conditions and racial limitations. Ethnology, anthropology, psychology, preventive medicine, education, are some of the tools that must be used in the shaping of the national, com- munity, and individual life of the future. In this great work the Smithsonian Institution will take such active part as opportunity and means permit.
An article on “The Smithsonian Institution,” published in the North American Review, summarizes the history and work of the Institution, and concludes as follows:
Such has been the result of a single benefaction of half a million of dollars, and perhaps no such result has ever been accomplished by so limited an en- dowment. Were the great sums given to swell the almost infinite endowments of some of our universities diverted to this unostentatious establishment, its power for good would be immeasurably increased, but, as it is, the bounty of a stranger and an alien has given the American people an agency for good whose influence is incalculable. It presents an opportunity to those who wish to bestow money for some beneficent purpose such as is given by no other on
earth, and its scant means and petty endowment are a reproach to our rich and generous nation.@ :
ADMINISTRATION.
The affairs of the Institution proper have progressed in a satis- factory manner during the year. All communications have received prompt administrative consideration, and everything possible has been done to carry out the fundamental purposes of the Institution, “the increase-and diffusion of knowledge.”
In the administrative work of the various branches of the govern- ment service placed under the direction of the Institution, it has been the custom to fully avail myself of the assistance of the officers in charge of those branches, and T am glad to say that the business of the year has been carried on vigorously. The extended and com- plicated operations of the National Museum, including the National Gallery of Art and the erection of the new building, have been effect- ively managed by the assistant secretary in charge, Mr. Richard Rathbun. The International Exchanges, the library, and the Inter- national Catalogue of Scientific Literature continued under the effi- cient charge of Dr. Cyrus Adler, until his resignation on October 1, 1908, when he removed to Philadelphia to assume the presidency of the “ Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.” Doctor Adler entered the service of the Institution in 1888 as an assistant
«The Smithsonian Institution, by Charles Minor Blackford, jr., M. D., North American Review, January, 1909. Reprinted as Senate Document No. 717, Sixtieth Congress, second session.
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curator in the National Museum. In 1892 he was appointed libra- rian of the Institution, and in 1905 became assistant secretary. His service of twenty years was marked by a remarkable grasp of the affairs of the Institution, in the administration of which his advice has been of great assistance to the secretaries.
The affairs of the Bureau of American Ethnology have continued in charge of Mr. W. H. Holmes, as chief, who has also acted as curator of the National Gallery of Art. Mr. C. G. Abbot, director of the Astrophysical Observatory, has carried forward the work of this branch both in Washington and on Mount Wilson, California, where duplicate observations have been carried on at a branch station, and the care of the National Zoological Park has continued under the management of Dr. Frank Baker, its superintendent. Although greatly hampered for adequate funds the Park has proved a great attraction to the people of Washington, over 125,000 persons having visited it in a single month.
The advisory committee on printing and publication, appointed in - pursuance of executive order of January 20, 1906, is composed of rep- resentatives from the Institution and its branches, and has rendered valuable assistance in examining manuscripts proposed for publica- tion, and in the consideration of various matters connected with printing and publication.
The current business of the Institution has been conducted with promptness, and it is gratifying to note that no arrearages in the work of the government branches under its direction were reported in the quarterly statements to the President and in the annual state-. ment which, in accordance with law, accompanied the estimates transmitted to Congress.
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.
Bequest of ‘Smithson, 2S84G:—— 22242222 ee eee $515, 169. 00
Residuary legacy of Smithson, 1867.29 ee 26, 210. 68 Deposit from-savines of income, 18G%as eee 108, 620. 37 Bequest of James Hamilton, d87 5232522 eee $1, 000. 00 Accumulated interest on Hamilton fund, 1895_________ 1, 000. 00
— 2, 000. 00 Bequest: of Simeon! Habel, 18805_2)25:23)2.. ee 500. 00 Deposit from proceeds of sale of bonds, 1881__________-___- ede 51, 500. 00 Gift of Thomas G. Hodgkins, (aol se eee 200, 000. 00 Part of residuary legacy of Thomas G. Hodgkins, 1894______--____ 8, 000. 00 Deposit from savings of income; 1903222222222 25, 000. 00 Residuary legacy of Thomas. G. Hodgkins___-_______--__-____-_= 7, 918. 69
Total amount of fund in the United States Treasury__---__- 944, 918. 69
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Held at the Smithsonian Institution.
Registered and guaranteed bonds of the West Shore Railroad Com- pany (par value), part of legacy of Thomas G. Hodgkins_______ $42, 000. 00
ROCA Me TTT Nts ETT ee Be Ee 986, 918. 69
In addition to the above there are four pieces of real estate bequeathed to the Institution by the late R. 8. Avery, some of which haat a nominal rental and all are free from taxation.
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.
The income of the Institution during the year, amounting to $84,769.82, was derived as follows: Interest on the permanent fund, $58 375.19: contributions from various sources for specific purposes, $20,250, and from other miscellaneous sources, $6,144.70; all of which was deposited in the Treasury. of the United States to the credit of the current account of the Institution.
With the balance of $18,766.41 on July 1, 1908, the total resources for the fiscal year amounted to $103,536.23. The disbursements, which are given in detail in the annual report of the executive com- mittee, amounted to $71,359.53, leaving a balance of $32,176.70 on deposit June 30, 1909, in the United States Treasury.
The Institution was charged by Congress with the disbursement of the following appropriations for the year ending June 30, 1909:
HAT ree TyTN HUT COMM Aes T KC IVAN OS eles DUG eee i er tee) ee $32, 000 American Hthnology _______-_____________ ns Pensa Wee B42 000 Astrophysical Observatory______ WoL ESE ay arg i sa 7 lg Mis a i i a ae 13, 000 National Museum: TUITE a eatiNe TIRES sae ioe BAL ee eo es ee 50, 000 PLE a SaeL ING a OMENS We ae Se ee es ee Mey LPR oo a oe a 22, 000 IETesenyaulonnor COMEeGHONS==s ase sh a ee eee 190, 000 SFE) ©) KS eee eae ceed Eee a 8 Se EARS ar aL te PE ae Se 2, 000 TEA OSES 2 Ss a ot as ee eee phot ter IES Se eae a aes 500 TRRC@UMMIE? OIE yO HES OVO) YSERA ai tl he ta Ne a Pee ee 4, 580 ST GIT RE TST Se ss Ee eh ys ieee ely OOO iiiatiioimalh, Yor ops cei lies Bb ir thet ee Bei eee ee ee ee eee 95, 000 International Catalogue of Scientific Literature______________________ 5, 000 Transfer of Greenough statue of Washington_________ NCEP 9 Es Seth 5, 000 Temporary occupancy of government buildings for tuberculosis con- SILC. Sper cate eM Nh em eS BE Te Ey eT ae FC er A Bs 40, 000
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E'stimates.—The estimates forwarded to Congress in behalf of the government branches of the Institution and the appropriations based thereon for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910, are as follows:
Estimates. mee International -Exchanges-.% <<.-%.2:h5s sevens ace coe eee ee acne cee aon ena Eee $32, 000 $32, 000 American Ethiaolopy,...... cicceastee acres tee one poaee «52 <osineaceite sak se sees | 52, 000 48, 000 Reimbursement of ‘Bell &.Co Sapce eee eee eee meee tea cece ee eee eee 525) |-< eee Astrophysical Observatory:..:--3-<.- css eee eee eee e eee emcee ene oy eee 17, 000 13, 000 National Museum: Furniture and fixtures: 4 )s3ss0. eee ee eee ee ere ee eenc each ates Ree see 200, 000 200, 000 Heating and Wehtine: .: 2coc joan te eee ee ee eee ole ee ies Mee CORRE ee nee 62, 000 60, 000 Preservation of collections.......-.......----2+---- 22-22-0222 eens eee ee eee 400, 000 250, 000 BROOKS foresee os cece ats bat scare Ee ORE Sie e ee eee REE Da ee ee ae ee | 5, 000 2,000 POStARE: -aiass sa sists cise lareite ore elaldlerele Rte eee Senet oeete oe alate ele eas ea eee eee 500 500 Rentof-workshops\.<.2. == 225: Weeoe eee ee eee Sitceree sister @ 4,580) |i eeeeeeee Building repairs... cei. 5sps case dale ee he een Eee aoe ee cee nace eee eee | 15, 000 15, 000 Moving: collections: <5:..5.S2cs2saccer secon er eeeee EEO Deen att eee ee 10, 000 4,000 NationaliGalllery: of Arts os- sommes ese ce eee eae eee SERS taints ein iaiene Rete eie eI arene 60; O00) | |o seeceees National Zoolopical#Park: 25.2455. S26 .oesieee eee en coe e ene n eee ee eee | 110, 000 95, 000 Readjustment of boundaries.................- SS Ser en Bes pone eoeae 405000! S03. cee Aviary-building: 2.5. .s3o2icss St Ee eee een eee ee | 80,0004}. . veree Roadways and: walks... occ... Sette cea eee ee eee | 12,(000))|Saaeeeeere International Catalogue of Scientific Literature..........................-:----- 7,500 6, 000 Potala vas. cxe sack seaeoacb eae ys eee See Ree | 1,108,105 | 720,500
* The request was made to the Appropriations Committee that this item be eliminated, as rented buildings would be vacated by June 30, 1909.
The Institution is required each year to submit to Congress, through the Secretary of the Treasury, estimates for the support of the several branches placed by the Congress under its administrative charge. The estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911, were submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury on May 1, 1909, instead of in the fall of the year as heretofore, it being the desire of the President, expressed through the Treasury Department, that more time be given to their examination.
In preparing these estimates I found it imperative that consider- able increases should be made in several directions, as follows:
For the Bureau of American Ethnology I have asked an increase of $10,000, to be allotted for the exploration and preservation of antiquities, researches among the tribes of the Middle West, and for researches in Hawaii and Samoa.
To properly carry on the work of the Astrophysical Observatory likewise requires a greater appropriation. The furnishing and main- tenance of the new building for the National Museum necessitates, in general, a large increase in annual appropriations. For the National Zoological Park I have asked a considerable increase, in order that it may be properly maintained and become in greater measure what its name would lead the public to expect and demand in a national park.
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Estimates for the year ending June 80, 1911.
MceENaciOnal Hxchamees es 20s G5 a ox Ue es $32, 000 EAUTTO TS] Capa nt MENG) CO Sayje wane WON RE Ley 2 el Nae et Sa ee 52, 000 International Catalogue of Scientific Literature____________________ 7, 500 SELOOUSICAl iODSerVatOry ue ee ee ee ee 18, 000
National Museum:
HummMiburesamd: fixbURes sae. AS Se eh Sete $125, 000
PCa omamd oii ettinmoe S AI eee ee by 60, 000 Bresenvatiom of collections=— 22 22.0 se seers es 400, 000 TEROYOU EIS as aE ae SO a aE ae oe Oe age teks ae ye ee 5, 000 Eruildine “repairs. 225 2 Mipaba Reel fia dee ol 15, 000 VEDAS EAN, ol oN le Vt Sarees rues RA Iola) media ie Ren or 500 -— 605, 500 National Zoological Park: Maintenance, etc__ pene i line se DAL aa te $110, 000 Aviary building SS PULL LE ile oe Te eeu aL cp a ree \ 1 94 0) 08) ENeUONVany Sian (ly yyiailicS 2s 2 cee ee ee 14, 000 Readjustment of boundaries_______________-__________ 40, 000 ————._ 244, 000 Printing and binding for the Institution and its branches___________ 72, 700 TRC teh] ieee de a ed es ES SO SS ee ree ea ae Et YY 1, 031, 700
EXPLORATIONS AND RESEARCHES.
The resources of the Smithsonian Institution are at present too limited to permit of large grants for extensive explorations or inves- tigations, but as far as the income allows aid is given in various lines of research work, and it is sometimes found possible to engage in ex- peditions likely to accomplish important results. If funds could be obtained to be administered under the Institution, the scientific work of the Government might often be supplemented by original re- searches of a character that would hardly be undertaken by the Goy- ernment, and which would be of great service to humanity and to science.
Through the National Museum, the Bureau of American Ethnology, and the Astrophysical Observatory the Institution has been enabled to carry on various impcrtant biological, ethnological, and astrophys- ical researches, which are mentioned elsewhere in this report.
SMITHSONIAN AFRICAN EXPEDITION.
Through the generosity of friends of the Smithsonian Institution, there was provided during the past year a special fund to pay for the outfitting and to meet the expenses of the naturalists on a hunting and collecting expedition to Africa under the direction of Col. Theo- dore Roosevelt. No part of the fund was derived from any govern- ment appropriation or from the income of the Institution. The spe- cial interest of the Institution in the expedition is the collection of biological material for the United States National Museum.
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In June, 1908, the following letter was received from President Roosevelt :
THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON. OysTER Bay, N. ¥., June 20, 1908.
My Dear Docror WaAtcorr: About the 1st of April next I intend to start for Africa. My plans are of course indefinite, but at present I hope they will be something on the following order:
By May 1 I shall land at Mombasa and spend the next few months hunting and traveling in British and German East Africa; probably going thence to or toward Uganda, with the expectation of striking the Nile about the beginning of the new year, and then working down it, with side trips after animals and birds, so as to come out at tide water, say, about March 1. This would give me ten months in Africa. As you know, I am not in the least a game butcher. I like to do a certain amount of hunting, but my real and main interest is the interest of a faunal naturalist. Now, it seems to me that this opens the best chance for the National Museum to get a fine collection not only of the big game beasts, but of the smaller mammals and birds of Africa; and looking at it dispassionately, I believe that the chance ought not to be neglected. I will make arrangements to pay for the expenses of myself and my son. But what I would like to do would be to get one or two professional field taxidermists, field naturalists, to go with me, who should prepare and send back the specimens we collect. The collection which would thus go to the National Museum would be of unique value. It would, I hope, include specimens of big game, together with the rare smaller animals and birds. I have not the means that would enable me to pay for the field naturalists or taxidermists and their kit, and the cur- ing and transport of the specimens for the National Museum. Of course the actual hunting of the big game I would want to do myself, or have my son do; but the specimens will all go to the National Museum, save a very few personal trophies of little scientific value which for some reason I might like to keep. Now, can you, in view of getting these specimens for the National Museum, arrange for the services of the field taxidermists, and for the care and trans- port of the specimens? As ex-President, I should feel that the National Mu- seum is the museum to which my collection should go.
With high regard, sincerely yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Hon. CHARLES D. WALCOTT,
Secretary Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.
To which I replied from camp in Montana, where I was carrying on geological investigations for the Institution: Betton, Monr., June 27, 1908. To the PRESIDENT,, Oyster Bay, N. Y. DrarR Mr. PRESIDENT: Your letter of June 20, with a copy of a letter Dr. Cyrus Adler wrote you in reply, just received. f I am immensely pleased at the thought of your collections coming to the National Museum, and it will give me the greatest pleasure to provide two taxidermists and their kit, and to arrange for the curing and transport of the specimens. I leave in the morning for the Kintla Lake region and the Continental Divide, - as most of the geological work has to be done above timber line. Thanking you most heartily and sincerely for the opportunity of securing the African material, I remain, 5 Sincerely yours, CHARLES D. WALCOTT.
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At the next meeting of the Board of Regents on December 15, 1908, the following resolutions were adopted, formally recording the ac- ceptance of the President’s generous offer and expressing the Board’s appreciation of the contributions of the friends of the Institution which made this expedition possible:
Resolved, That the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution express to Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, its appreciation of his very generous offer contained in his letter of the 20th of June, 1908, to the Sec- retary of the Institution, with respect to his expedition to Africa; and that it accept the same.
Resolved, That the thanks of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian In- stitution be conveyed by the Secretary of the Institution to the donors who have “so generously contributed funds to meet the expenses of the naturalists who will accompany Mr. Theodore Roosevelt upon his expedition to Africa, the results of which will be presented by the President to the Smithsonian Institution for the National Museum,
The party sailed on March 23, 1909, from New York on the steamer Hamburg for Naples, whence steamer was taken to Mombasa, British East Africa. Those accompanying Mr. Roosevelt were his son Ker- mit and three naturalists—Lieut. Col. Edgar A. Mearns, surgeon, U. S. Army; Mr. Edmund Heller; and Mr. J. Alden Loring. The expedition arrived in Africa on April 21.
A letter from Mr. Heller, dated at Nairobi May 31, announced the shipment of 20 barrels of large mammal skins in brine, comprising Colonel Roosevelt’s first month’s collection. The shipment consists of 82 specimens, as follows: Lion, 7; leopard, 1; cheetah, 1; spotted hyena, 1; Cape hartebeest, 14; white-bearded wildebeest, 5; Neumann steinbuck, 5; Kirk dik-dik, 1; common waterbuck, 3; Chanler reed- buck, 4; Grant gazelle, 9; Thomson gazelle, 5, impalla, 2; eland, 1; Cape buffalo, 4; giraffe, 3; hippopotamus, 1; wart hog, 6; Burchell zebra, 7; black rhinoceros, 2. While no new species, so far as is known, is included in this first shipment, the collection will supple- ment materially the specimens already in the National Museum.
Together with this shipment are expected a large number of speci- mens of small mammals, and also of birds gathered by Lieut. Col. Mearns and J. Alden Loring, of the expedition party.
Through the Smithsonian African expedition the National Zoological Park has been presented by Mr. W. W. McMillan, of Juja farm, near Nairobi, British East Africa, with an exceptional collection of live African animals. A letter from Lieut. Col. Edgar A. Mearns, dated May 20, states that the collection includes 11 large mammals and 3 large birds, all in fine condition and for the most part well broken to captivity, as follows: A male and female lion, 2 years old; a male and two female lions, 17 months old; a female leopard, a pet of Mrs. McMillan; two cheetahs; a wart hog, 2 years old; one Thomson and one Grant gazelle, well grown; a large
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cagle of unusual species; a small vulture; and a large buteo. Speci- mens of none of these, except the hons and leopard, are at present contained in the park.
STUDIES IN CAMBRIAN GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY.
In my reports for the past two years reference has been made to studies of the older sedimentary rocks of the North American Conti- nent, which I have been carrying on as opportunity offered for more than twenty vears. This work was continued in Montana and the Canadian Rockies during the field season of 1908.
Outfitting at Belton, Mont., the last of June, 1908, the party pro- ceeded with saddle horses and pack mules north past Lake McDonald and on up the valley of the North Fork of the Flathead River to the Kintla lakes. From the Continental Divide northeast of Upper Kintla Lake beautiful views were obtained of the higher peaks, deep canyons, and snow fields north and south of the international bound- ary. Numerous photographs and notes on the geology were taken.
The party crossed the forty-ninth parallel and moved north up the valley of the Flathead, in British Columbia, making several side excursions into the mountains. The farthest point reached toward the northeast was about 20 miles south of Crows Nest Pass. From there the route led along a trapper’s trail up Johnson Creek to the Continental Divide, thence to the town of Pincher Creek and south to Waterton Lake. An examination was made of the oil fields west of Waterton Lake on Cumberland Creek, which is about 15 miles north of the international boundary. From this point the party followed a trail along the western side of Waterton Lake and thence up Little Kootna Creek to the Continental Divide at the head of Mineral Creek, a tributary of McDonald Creek. A few days were spent in taking photographs and examining the geological structure in this vicinity before returning to Belton, on August 1, for supplies.
A trip was next made by the way of Lake McDonald to Gunsight Pass on the Continental Divide, above Upper St. Mary Lake. But smoke from forest fires became so dense that the party returned to Belton and proceeded southward up the South Fork of the Flat- head River for about 100 miles. Examinations were made of Gordon Mountain and vicinity and during the return journey several geo- logical sections were examined along the western side of the Conti-’ nental Divide. Belton was again reached early in September and a trip was made to Marias Pass, which afforded a very fine view of the main range of the Rocky Mountains along the line of the Great Northern Railway.
The scientific results of the 950-mile trip through the forests and on mountain trails will aid materially in the solution of several prob- lems connected with the stratigraphy and structure of the main ranges
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of the eastern Rocky Mountains and of the geological position and age of many thousands of feet of the sandstones, shales, and lime- stones forming the mountains in northern Montana, British Colum- bia, and Alberta.
On the return an examination was made of the geological forma- tions in the vicinity of Helena, Mont., and of the Wasatch Range, southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah.
Three additional papers giving a summary of the results of my studies in Cambrian Geology and Paleontology were published dur- ing the year: No. 3, Cambrian Brachiopoda: Descriptions of new genera and species; No. 4, Classification and terminology of the Gainbwinn Brachiopoda ; atid No. 5, Cambrian sections of the Cordil- leran area.*
GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN THE FAR BAST.
In May, 1909, a Smithsonian grant was made to Prof. Joseph P. Iddings, of the United States Geological Survey and the University of Chicago, for geological investigations in Japan, eastern China, and Java. Professor Iddings, who was graduated in the Columbia School of Mines in 1878-79, and in microscopic petrography by the University of Heidelberg in 1879-80, is well fitted for a research of this kind. His connection with and acquaintance in various foreign scientific societies will be of assistance in prosecuting this remote investigation, which will be reported fully as it progresses.
BOTANICAL COLLECTIONS.
Work under a small grant to Miss Alice Eastwood, for re-collect- ing the botanical species secured by the botanist Thomas Nuttall in 1836 in the region of Santa Barbara, Cal., has been successfully prose- cuted, as mentioned in the last report. Asa result, Miss Kastman has sent to the National Museum two sets of plants, one of 341 desirable specimens, which have been mounted for the National Herbarium. The second, and by a few specimens the smaller set, will be used for exchange purposes, many valuable additions to the Herbarium being: frequently secured in this manner.
INVESTIGATIONS UNDER THE HODGKINS FUND.
As stated in the last report, I have given consideration to the use of the portion of the Hodgkins fund devoted to the increase and diffusion of more exact knowledge of the atmospheric air in rela- tion to the welfare of man. While much valuable work has been done under this fund, it appeared to me that it would be more in consonance with the ideas of the founder, if at least a portion of it might be employed in some Hey to aid in the knowledge of the
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prevention of disease and its cure. In following out this sphere of work the Institution issued a circular, under date of February 3, 1908, offering a prize of $1,500 for the best treatise on “ The relation of atmospheric air to tuberculosis ” that should be presented at the international congress on tuberculosis, which was held in Washington from September 21 to October 12, 1908. This prize aroused wide- spread interest among the students on this subject and resulted in the receipt by the Institution of 81 papers submitted in competition. All of these have been referred to the committee on awards, whose report is expected in a short time. ;
Grants from the Hodgkins fund, although not numerous during the past year, have been the means of furthering important investiga- tions which are still in progress.
RESEARCHES ON ATMOSPHERIC AIR.
A Hodgkins grant was approved in October, 1908, for the erection of a small stone shelter on the summit of Mount Whitney, California, for the use of investigators during the prosecution of researches on atmospheric air, or on subjects closely related thereto. :
The pioneer trip to the summit of Mount Whitney in the summer of 1881 by the late Secretary Langley, at that time director of the Allegheny Observatory, will be recalled in this connection as well as his earnestly expressed conviction that in no country is there a finer site for meteorological and atmospheric observations than the United States possesses in Mount Whitney and its neighboring peaks.
As emphasized in the report of the Langley expedition, a per- manent shelter on the peak is an absolute necessity for the prose- cution of continued observations there, and the erection of such a shelter has now been made possible by the extension of railway facilities toward the base of the mountain and the improvement of the trails to the summit.
Mr. C. G. Abbot, who succeeded Secretary Langley as director of the Astrophysical Observatory of the Smithsonian Institution, and to whose immediate suggestion and earnest personal efforts the prep- aration for and the establishment of this important post on Mount Whitney are largely due, began his observations there in the summer of 1909, and obtained important data in the determination of the solar constant.
The cooperation of Prof. W. W. Campbell, the director of Lick Observatory, University of California, at Mount Hamilton, has been most helpful during the erection of the shelter, and the interest of many of the citizens of Lone Pine, near the border line of the govern- ment reservation, has been heartily and .patriotically expressed. It is easily seen that the local feeling in favor of the station will make its occupation more readily and comfortably available by members
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of the research parties who will from time to time desire to work there.
The class of researches to be prosecuted at this exceptionably fa- vorable station are not only of great scientific interest, but are ex- pected also to prove of value in determining questions having a direct, practical influence on the preservation and progress of human life on our globe.
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD PYRHELIOMETERS.
A limited grant from the Hodgkins fund was approved in Feb- ruary, 1909, for the construction of several silver disk pyrheliometers. These instruments are to be placed in charge of scientific investi- gators in widely separated localities for the purpose of establishing an international scale for the comparison of observations on solar radiation. The varying results published by observers have made the need of international cooperation in this connection apparent, and the matter has received considerable attention at conferences of the Solar Union.
These simple and comparatively inexpensive instruments are to be constructed after a design by Mr. Abbot. Similar pyrheliometers have been employed in the researches of the Astrophysical Observa- tory for several years and have proved entirely satisfactory.
. PUBLICATIONS UNDER THE HODGKINS FUND.
Bibliography of aeronautical literature—An exhaustive bibliog- raphy of aeronautical literature, compiled by Mr. Paul Brockett, assistant librarian of the Smithsonian Institution, has been com- pleted to July 1, 1909, and is now in course of publication. This work contains references to about 13,500 published articles and is designed to render available the voluminous literature in all lan- guages, on aviation.
Mechanics of the earth’s atmosphere.—In 1891 the Institution pub- lished a volume of translations of important foreign memoirs on the “ Mechanics of the earth’s atmosphere,” which was prepared by Prof. Cleveland Abbe. There was put to press during the past year a sec- ond collection of papers on this subject.
SMITHSONIAN TABLE AT NAPLES ZOOLOGICAL STATION.
The occupants of the Smithsonian table at Naples during the past year were Dr. C. A. Kofoid, of the University of California and the San Diego Marine Biological Station, and Dr. F. M. Guyer, of the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Kofoid is studying the question of sexual reproduction among Dinoflagellata and carrying on experi- mental work on autotomy in Ceratium, with reference to temperature and vertical distribution in the sea. Their investigations covered a period of seven months.
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The present lease of the table expires December 31, 1909, but its renewal for another term of three years has been decided on, so that applications for the seat may now be submitted at any time. ;
As in former years, the cooperation of the members of the advisory committee has been of great value in the examination of applications for the seat, and is always thoroughly appreciated.
PUBLICATIONS.
The publication work of the Smithsonian Institution has from its beginning been one of its most important functions. It has been the principal medium for the “ diffusion of knowledge ” throughout the world. The Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, and the Smithsonian Annual Reports are publications widely known, and the demand for copies of these works has constantly been much in excess of the possible supply. The editions of the “ Contributions ” and the “ Collections ” are necessarily restricted by the limited income of the Institution, and their distribution is almost entirely to public institutions rather than to individuals. The Annual Reports, however, are public docu- ments, issued at the expense of a congressional appropriation. Although this permits of editions of several thousand copies, yet the entire number is each year exhausted soon after the date of publication.
Besides the publications of the Institution proper there are issued under its direction the Bulletins and Annual Reports of the United States National Museum and of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and the Annals of the Astrophysical Observatory. The details relating to these various series during the year will be found in the appendix to this report.
In the series of “ Contributions” no new volume was published, although there was issued a new edition of Professor Langley’s memoir on “ The internal work of the wind,” originally printed in 1893. To this new edition was added, as an appendix, a translation of the “ Solution of a special case of the general problem,” by Réné de Saussure, which appeared in 1893 in Revue de )Aéronautique Théorique et Appliqué, Paris, in connection with a French reproduc- tion of the above memoir by Professor Langley.
The quarterly issue of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections has now reached its fifth volume. Twenty papers were published in this series during the year. One of these papers, “Some recent con- tributions to our knowledge of the sun,” was a lecture delivered at Washington April 22, 1908, under the auspices of the Hamilton fund of the Smithsonian Institution. Another paper, by Dr. Cyrus Adler, tells of the relation of Richard Rush to the Smithsonian Institution. Mr. Rush was agent of the United States to secure the bequest of
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James Smithson. He successfully completed the legal steps neces- sary to establish the claim of the United States in the English courts, and in August, 1838, arrived in New York with half a million dollars in gold sovereigns which were formally transferred to the Treasurer of the United States. Mr. Rush later rendered important service in the organization of the Institution and was one of its first Regents, serving on the Board from 1846 until his death in 1859.
The continued demand for the Smithsonian Physical Tables, pre- pared by the late Prof. Thomas Gray, necessitated the reprinting of a fourth edition from the stereotype plates. A thorough revision of these Tables is in preparation to bring the work within the range of the important advance made in the science of physics during the last decade.
The volume of “Smithsonian Mathematical Tables: Hyperbolic Functions,” prepared by Dr. George F. Becker and Mr. C. E. Van Orstrand, which was in press at the close of the last fiscal year, has been completed as a “ special publication.”
Three papers descriptive of my researches in Cambrian Geology and Paleontology have been added to those mentioned in my last report. These are: No. 3, Cambrian Brachiopoda: Description of New Genera and Species; No. 4, Classification and Terminology of the Cambrian Brachiopoda; and No. 5, Cambrian Sections of the Cordilleran Area. The last-named paper is accompanied by a num- ber of illustrations of various parts of the Rocky Mountains showing the Cambrian Cordilleran sections which had been examined to a total thickness of more than 12,000 feet.
Among the works in press at the close of the year was a paper on “Tandmarks of Botanical History,” by Dr. Edward L. Greene, and a work on the “ Mechanics of the Earth’s Atmosphere,” comprising a selection of important French and German papers translated and edited by Prof. Cleveland Abbe.
There was practically completed, ready for press, at the close of the year a Bibliography of Aeronautics containing references to about 13,500 books and papers on that subject, dating from the earli- est days of printing down to the publications of the present year.
The greater part of the Annual Report for 1908 was in type at the close of the year, but press work could not be completed. The volume contains 27 papers showing progress made in astronomy, physics, biology, geology, and other branches of knowledge.
To meet the demand for copies of papers by Secretary Langley on aerial navigation, there was reprinted a special edition, under one cover, of four articles that had appeared in the Smithsonian Reports from 1897 to 1904, as follows: “ Story of experiments in mechanical flight ” (1897); “ The Langley aerodrome” (1900); “'The greatest flying creature” (1901); and “ Experiments with the Langley aero-
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drome” (1904). The introduction to this reprint, written by As- sistant Secretary Adler, reads as follows:
The international fame of Samuel Pierpont Langley rests primarily upon his epoch-making researches in solar physics, but during the last ten years of his life his name was best known to the world at large by his experiments in mechanical flight.
Mr. Langley was the first to produce a machine heavier than air which, sup- ported and propelled by its own engine and possessing no extraneous lifting or sustaining power, actually made an independent flight for a considerable distance, this being accomplished for the first time on May 6, 1896. He after- wards constructed other models driven by both steam and gasoline engines, which made frequent successful flights, and was thus the first to demonstrate by actual experiment the possibility of mechanical flight.
In addition to building various models and machines, most of which are now on exhibition in the United States National Museum, Mr. Langley recorded his studies and experiments in two technical works—“ Experiments in Aero- dynamics,” published originally by the Smithsonian Institution in 1891, and “The Internal Work of the Wind,” the original edition of which was issued by the Institution in 1893. The copious and painstaking notes made by Mr. Langley in connection with his latest experiments in mechanical flight are now in course of preparation for publication and will be issued by the Institu- tion on completion, thus forming the third volume of this more technical series.
Mr. Langley also wrote a few occasional popular papers relating to this same class of experiments, which were published in the Smithsonian reports and elsewhere, the editions of which are now quite exhatisted. In order to meet the ever-increasing demand .for information on a subject which is now claiming universal attention, and in which Mr. Langley was the pioneer, some of these less technical articles are here brought together and reprinted under a single cover.
The publications of the National Museum during the year included a large number of papers in the Proceedings, and several Bulletins, the general contents of which are enumerated in the appendix.
The Bureau of American Ethnology published its Twenty-sixth Annual Report and a number of Bulletins. One of the Bulletins, No. 42, by Dr. AleS Hrdlitka, gives the results of his study of tuber- culosis among certain Indian tribes.
The Annual Reports of the American Historical Association and of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion were received from those organizations and were communicated to Congress in accordance with their national charters.
The allotments to the Institution and its branches, under the head of public printing and binding during the past fiscal year, aggrega- ting $72,700, were, as far as practicable, expended prior to June 30. The allotments for the year ending June 30, 1910, are as follows:
For the Smithsonian Institution for printing and binding annual re- ports of the Board of Regents, with general appendixes___________ $10, 000 For the annual reports of the National Museum, with general appen- dixes, and for printing labels and blanks for the Bulletins and Pro- ceedings of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not ex- ceed 4,000 copies, and binding, in half turkey or material not more expensive, scientific books and pamphlets presented to and acquired by ‘the National Museum libranty21 22S =2 tes sss 34, 000
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For the annual reports and bulletins of the Bureau of American Eth-
nology and for miscellaneous printing and binding for the bureau___ $21, 000 For miscellaneous printing and binding: Plontesternetytel Oma le HDX Ch EDT ES LL i eA ee a) ee 200 International Catalogue of Scientific Literature_________________ 100 INE EKO MEN WACO YOO err Ete a ahi i el op Gs OUR ee 3 ee ae ees 200 Astrophysical Observatory ___-____________ AID bless ts eee 200 For the annual report of the American Historical Association_________ 7, 000 "GINO ETL es DS IR Nc ee ihe ACN es aM ar eevee 72, 700
The practice of sending out abstracts of the publications of the Institution and its branches to newspapers throughout the country has been continued, and in this way many millions of readers, who would not have ready access to the scientific information in the papers themselves, have been reached.
ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON PRINTING AND PUBLICATION.
The committee on printing and publication has continued to ex- amine manuscripts proposed for publication by the branches of the Institution and has considered various questions concerning public printing and binding. Twenty-seven meetings of the committee were held during the year and more than a hundred manuscripts were passed upon.. Upon the resignation of Dr. Cyrus Adler, chairman of the committee, as assistant secretary of the Institution, the com- mittee was reorganized as follows: Dr. Frederick W. True, head curator of biology, United States National Museum, chairman; Mr. C. G. Abbot, director of the Astrophysical Observatory; Mr. W. I. Adams, of the International Exchanges; Dr. Frank Baker, superin- tendent of the National Zoological Park; Mr. A. Howard Clark, editor of the Smithsonian Institution; Mr. F. W. Hodge, ethnologist, the Bureau of American Ethnology; Prof. O. T. Mason, head curator of anthropology, United States National Museum; Dr. George P. Merrill, head curator of geology, United States National Museum; and Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, curator of reptiles and batrachians, United States National Museum. |
In order to prevent duplication of work in the examination of papers, the Museum advisory committee on publications was discon- tinued and its duties transferred to this committee.
THE LIBRARY.
The additions to the Smithsonian Library during the year agere- gated 29,729 complete volumes and parts of volumes, besides over 34,000 parts of periodical publications. Of the accessions more than 20,000 were placed in the Smithsonian deposit in the Library of Con- gress, and the remainder were divided among the libraries of the Secretary’s office, the Astrophysical Observatory, the National Zoo-
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logical Park, the International Exchanges, and the National Museum library. The library of the Bureau of American Ethnology, which is administered separately from the general library, has also had numerous additions. The Institution has continued the policy of send- ing to the Library of Congress public documents received in exchange for its publications.
During the last two years special efforts have been made to com- plete the sets of the publications of scientific societies and learned institutions in the Smithsonian deposit, including serial publications in the main collection, resulting in the receipt of nearly 4,000 parts, an increase of more than 2,000 over the previous year.
The reference books in the Institution and the general library, together with the sectional libraries in the National Museum and the library of the Bureau of American Ethnology, have been very freely consulted.
The importance of the collection of scientific works in the hbrary of the Institution is becoming more and more appreciated each year by the scientific investigator, as is evidenced by the increase in the number of publications withdrawn for consultation, especially the proceedings and transactions of the scientific societies and learned institutions.
The assistant librarian has been engaged in preparing a bibliog- raphy of aeronautical literature, which includes the indexing of about 13,500 papers in periodicals and proceedings of aeronautical socie- ties, books and separate pamphlets on the subject, and comprises all available titles, domestic and foreign, published before July 1, 1909. At the close of the year the manuscript was ready for the printer.
PRESERVATION OF AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES.
Under the terms of the act of Congress approved June 8, 1906, uniform regulations for the preservation of archeological and other objects on the public domain were prepared by the Secretaries of the Interior, War, and Agriculture, with the cooperation of the Smith- sonian Institution. Under rule 8 of these regulations applications for permits to carry on explorations or researches are referred to the Smithsonian Institution for recommendation, and during the year a number of such applications were acted on by the Institution.
CONGRESSES, CELEBRATIONS, AND EXPOSITIONS.
International Congress of Orientalists——At the Fifteenth Inter- national Congress of Orientalists, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, August 14 to 20, 1908, the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum were represented by Dr. Paul Haupt, professor of semitic philology in Johns Hopkins University, and associate of the National Museum in historic archeology. At the suggestion of the Institution,
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Doctor Haupt, Dr. C. R. Lanman, of Harvard University, Prof. Morris Jastrow, jr., of the University of Pennsylvania, and Prof. A. V. W. Jackson, of Columbia University, were designated by the Department of State as delegates of the United States Government to this congress.
Congress of Americanists—Dr. Franz Boas, of Columbia Univer- sity, was representative of the Institution at the Sixteenth Inter- nationai Congress of Americanists, held at Vienna September 8 to 14, 1908, and the Department of State, at the suggestion of the Insti- tution, designated, besides Doctor Boas, the following delegates on the part of the United States Government: Prof. Marshall H. Saville, of Columbia; Dr. George Grant McCurdy, of Yale; Dr. Charles Peabody, of Harvard; and Dr. Paul Haupt, of Johns Hopkins.
Fisheries Congress—The International Fisheries Congress was held in Washington September 22 to 26, 1908, delegates being present from a large number of countries and from various societies and clubs interested in fisheries. The Institution was represented by Dr. T. N. Gill and Dr. F. W. True; the National Museum by Mr. W. de C. Ravenel and Dr. Leonhard Stejneger. Dr. Richard Rathbun, Assist- ant Secretary of the Institution, served as delegate at large from the Government. In connection with this congress the Smithsonian Institution had offered a prize of $200 for the best essay or treatise “ On international regulation of the fisheries on the high seas: Their history, objects, and results.” This prize was awarded to Mr. Charles H. Stevenson, of the United States Bureau of Fisheries.
Tuberculosis Congress—In compliance with the direction of the President, the new building for the National Museum was selected for the meetings of the International Congress on Tuberculosis, $40,000 being placed at the disposal of the Secretary of the Smith- sonian Institution for the necessary arrangements in this connection.
The plans for the adaptation of the building to this purpose were put in the hands of the superintendent of construction, Mr. Bernard R. Green, and the work necessary was conducted by him to a success- ful conclusion. About 100,000 square feet of the building on the first and second floors, exclusive of the south wings, were used for the purposes of the congress. In order to make the space as attractive as possible, muslin was used to cover the rough places and many flags of the United States and of foreign nations were gracefully festooned about the halls. The Institution is indebted to the War, Navy, and Treasury departments, and also to the Bureau of American Republics, for the use of the flags. The temporary arrangements for the illumi- nation of the building required 600 lamps of 80 candlepower each, consuming about 40,000 feet of wiring.
The congress opened on September 21, 1908, and adjourned on October 12. By November 3 all traces of the convention had been
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removed and the building was again ready for the resumption of construction operations. About $25,000 was expended in fitting up the building for the congress ($15,000 being thus unused from the appropriation).
Thirty-one independent nations and forty-five States of the Union were represented. There were 488 contributors, of whom 312 were citizens of the United States. The total attendance at the congress was approximately 148,000.
-Among the contributors to the exhibits the Smithsonian Institu- tion presented results of an investigation among certain of the Indian tribes for the Department of the Interior, with a view to showing the actual amount of tuberculosis existing. This work was done by Dr. Ale’ Hrdlitka, of the National Museum, who visited the Menominee, Sioux, Quinault, Hupa, and Mohave tribes. The exhibit occupied a space amounting to 18 by 40 feet, and the congress expressed its appreciation of it by awarding the Institution a gold medal.
As already mentioned in the paragraphs on the Hodgkins fund, the Institution offered a prize of $1,500 for the best treatise on “ The relation of atmospheric air to tuberculosis.”
Anniversary of birth of Torricell1—At the exercises commemorat- ing the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Evangelista Torricelli, held at Faenza, Italy, in November, 1908, Professor Senator Giovanni Copellini was requested to act as the representative of the Institution.
American Mining Congress—Dr. George P. Merrill, head curator of geology, United States National Museum, represented the Institu- tion and the Museum at the eleventh annual session of the American Mining Congress, held at Pittsburg, Pa., December 2 to 5, 1908.
Pan-American Scientifie Congress.—The first Pan-American Scien- tific Congress was held in Santiago, Chile, December 25, 1908, to January 6, 1909. The Smithsonian Institution was represented by Mr. William H. Holmes, Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology and curator of prehistoric archeology in the National Museum, who presented a paper on “ The peopling of America.” An account of the congress, by Mr. Holmes, is given as an appendix to the present report.
Aeronautical cxposition—The Institution sent seven large photo- graphs of the Langley aerodrome to the International Aeronautical Exposition held at Frankfort on the Main, Germany, February 27, 1909.
National Academy of Sciences.—As has been the custom for many years, the Institution afforded facilities for the meetings of the Na- tional Academy of Sciences, April 21 to 23, 1909. One of the halls of the National Museum was used for the public meetings of the academy, the council meetings being held in rooms in the Smithsonian
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building. The programme of the meetings included the usual num- ber of papers covering a wide field.
Congress of photography.—The Smithsonian Institution accepted an invitation to participate in the International Congress on Pho- tography at Dresden, Germany, May to October, 1909, and sent a number of enlarged photographs and transparencies.
International Archeological Congress.—Upon the recommendation of the Smithsonian Institution Mr. A. M. Lythgoe, of the Metropoli- tan Museum of Art, and Prof. Paul Baur, of Yale University, were designated by the Department of State as delegates on the part of the United States to the Second International Archeological Con- gress, which was held at Cairo, Egypt, Easter, 1909.
Darwin celebration—It was my pleasure, by resolution of the Board of Regents, to represent the Institution at the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, held at Cambridge University, England, June 22 to 24, 1909, when the university con- ferred upon me the degree of Sc. D. In this connection a bronze bust of Darwin, a gift of many of Darwin’s admirers in America, was presented to the university.
University of Geneva anniversary.—Prof. J. M. Baldwin, of J ohns Hopkins University, was appointed to represent the Smithsonian Institution at the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Geneva University, which was held at Geneva July 7 to 10, 1909.
Oniwersity of Leipzig anniversary—tThe Institution accepted an invitation to participate in the five hundredth anniversary of the University of Leipzig held July 28 to 30, 1909, and Dr. William H. Welch, of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., consented to act as its representative on that occasion.
Congress for the History of Religions.—Dr. Paul Haupt, of Johns Hopkins University, and Prof. Morris Jastrow, jr., of the University of Pennsylvania, were designated, at the suggestion of the Institu- tion, as delegates on the part of the United States to the Third Inter- national Congress for the History of Religions, held at Oxford, England, September 15 to 18, 1909.
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Eaposition—tin the act of Congress ap- proved May 27, 1908, an appropriation of $200,000 was made for an exhibition by the Government at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Ex- position held at Seattle, begining June 1 and closing October 1, 1909. Mr. W. deC. Ravenel, administrative assistant in the United States National Museum, was designated by the Secretary as Repre- sentative of the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum. An. allotment of $24,000 was made for an exhibit by the Institution and the Museum to illustrate our national history, especially with refer- ence to Alaska, Hawaii, the Philippine Islands, and the United States west of the Rocky Mountains. Mr. Ravenel’s account of this exhibit is given in an appendix to the present report.
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Mr. Ravenel was also appointed by the President as a member of the United States Government board of managers of the exposition.
LANGLEY MEDAL AND MEMORIAT, TABLET.
As a tribute to the memory of the late Secretary Samuel Pierpont Langley and his contributions to the science of aerodromics, the Regents on December 15, 1908, adopted the following resolution:
Resolved, 'That the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution establish a medal to be known as the Langley medal ; to be awarded for specially meri- torious investigations in connection with the science of aerodromics and its application to aviation.
Following the establishment of this medal a committee on award, composed of the following gentlemen of recognized attainments in the science of aerodromics, was appointed by the Secretary:
Mr. Octave Chanute, of Chicago, chairman.
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, Washington, D. C.
Maj. George O. Squier, U. S. Army.
Mr. John A. Brashear, Allegheny, Pa.
Mr. James Means, formerly editor of the Aeronautical Annual, Boston, Mass.
The obverse of the medal is the same as in the Hodgkins medal and was designed by M. J. C. Chaplain, of Paris, a member of the French Academy. It represents a female figure, seated on the globe, carrying a torch in her left hand and in her right a scroll emblematic of knowledge, and the words “‘ Per Orbem.” The reverse is adapted from the seal of the Institution as designed by Augustus St. Gaudens, the special inscription being inserted in the center instead of the map of the world. The medal is about 3 inches in diameter.
The committee recommended that the first medal be bestowed on Wilbur and Orville Wright, and the medal was awarded to these gentlemen under the following resolution, adopted by the Board of Regents on February 10, 1909:
Resolved, That the Langley medal be awarded to Wilbur and Orville Wright for advancing the science of aerodromics in its application to aviation by their successful investigations and demonstrations of the practicability of mechanical flight by man.
At the meeting of the Board of Regents on December 15, 1908, the following resolution was adopted :
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution be requested to report to the Board of Regents as soon as practicable upon the erection in the Institution building of a tablet to the memory of Secretary Langley, setting forth his services in connection with the subject of aerial navigation.
Designs for this tablet are now being prepared by a well-known architect of this city, whose advice I have requested.
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MISCELLANEOUS. GREENOUGH STATUE OF WASHINGTON.
The Greenough statue of Washington, which was transferred to the custody of the Institution by joint resolution of Congress of May 22, 1908, introduced by Representative Mann, was removed from the plaza east of the Capitol in November, 1908, and has been installed in the west hall of the Smithsonian building.
MEMORIAL CONTINENTAL HALL.
Under date of April 30, 1909, the president-general of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution communicated with the President, offering to place at the disposal of the Smith- sonian Institution the use of the auditorium in Memorial Continental Hall. The President transmitted this offer to the Secretary of the Institution, and its thanks were expressed in a statement that the needs of the Institution at present are of a special nature and require particularly facilities for laboratory and research work, for which Continental Hall is not well adapted, but should there be need in the future for additional space for lecture purposes and the lke, the Institution would be glad to avail itself of the courteous proposal of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
NATIONAL MUSEUM.
The operations of the National Museum are discussed in detail by the assistant secretary in the appendix to this report and also in a separate volume, and need not therefore be fully treated here.
Tt was expected that the new building would be ready for occu- pancy before June 30, but delayed contracts and other circumstances prevented its completion. The entire stonework of the outer walls was, however, finished, as were also the roofs and skylights of the building. Much progress was made in the interior and it is expected that some of the halls and workrooms will be ready for use early in the autumn. A large part of the first and second floors and of the basement were utilized in the autumn of 1908 for the meetings and exhibition halls of the Sixth International Tuberculosis Congress, an appropriation having been made by the Government for the erec- tion of necessary partitions and other fittings.
It was found to be in the interest of economy to install in the new _ building a central heating and electrical plant of sufficient capacity to serve the needs of the older buildings as well, the pipes and wires to be carried through a small connecting tunnel.
Over 250,000 specimens were added to the Museum collections dur- ing the year, about 200,000 of them pertaining to biology and the re- mainder to geology and anthropology. One of the most important
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additions to the division of ethnology was a contribution from Dr. W. L. Abbott, consisting of about 500 objects from southwestern Borneo. I may also mention a number of Chinese velvets and em- broideries of the Chien-lung period (1736-1795), presented by the Baroness von Sternberg as a memorial to her husband, the late Baron Speck von Sternberg, German ambassador to the United States. To the technological collections were added more than 200 objects trans- ferred from the United States Patent Office. These included a num- ber of rifles, muskets, revolvers, and pistols, making the firearms ex- hibit in the National Museum one of the finest in the country. Many other objects of interest are enumerated by the assistant secretary in his detailed report. The department of biology received a noteworthy gift of about 1,200 European mammals and 61 reptiles from Mr. Old- field Thomas, of the British Museum, and Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, of this Museum. This has so greatly increased the importance of the National Museum collection of the mammals of Europe that it now ranks as one of the largest and most valuable in the world. I may also mention a contribution of about a thousand mammals and birds of Borneo, received from Dr. W. L. Abbott.
In connection with the work of excavation and repair of the Casa Grande ruins in Arizona, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, as authorized by act of Congress approved March 4, 1907, there were collected and placed in the National Museum about 650 stone axes and hammers, rubbing and grinding stones, earthen- ware bowls and vases, pieces of basketry and textile fabrics, shell ornaments, and wooden implements. From similar excavations in the Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, there were received about 500 objects of like character. The department of geology received a large series of Cambrian fossils from the Rocky Mountains, col- lected during my field studies in that region. There were also added to the collections many interesting objects pertaining to mineralogy and paleobotany. Eighty-two regular sets of geological specimens to the number of 7,739 were distributed during the year for educa- tional purposes, Was 1,300 specimens of geology, marine inverte- brates, and fishes arranged in special sets.
In my last report mention was made of a loan collection of laces, embroideries, rare porcelains, enamels, jewelry, and other artistic ob- jects, temporarily installed in the hall occupied by the gallery of art. This collection was brought together by Mrs. James W. Pinchot with the assistance of a committee of ladies of Washington. The extent of the collection is limited on account of present lack of space. The lace exhibit is specially noteworthy in variety and value. It is ex- pected that this temporary collection will lead to a permanent exhibit of art objects that may help to elevate the standard of American art workmanship.
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Two field parties in which the Institution and Museum are greatly interested left this country during the year for important collecting regions, from both of which especially valuable results may be ex- pected. The first, which will explore Java and some of the adjacent islands, is being conducted by Mr. Owen Bryant, of Cohasset, Mass., entirely at his own expense. He is accompanied by Mr. William Palmer, of the Museum staff, and will present to the Museum a large share of the specimens obtained. The party sailed at the be- ginning of the calendar year 1909. The second expedition is that under the direction of Col. Theodore Roosevelt into British East Africa and more inlands districts. This expedition is more fully mentioned on another page.
In the near future it will be possible to give the national collections adequate space and more systematic arrangement. In the new build- ing it is proposed to exhibit collections representing ethnology, archeology, natural history, and geology, while the older buildings wili be more specially given up to the arts and industries. The Museum thus amply provided with space will enter upon a new era of prosperity and usefulness.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART.
Some notable accessions have been made to the National Gallery of Art as enumerated in the appendix. I may specially mention addi- tions to the Charles L. Freer collection, consisting of a number of oil paintings, pastels, 247 pieces of oriental pottery, and 25 miscella- neous examples of oriental art. Mr. William T. Evans has also in- creased his generous gift of works of contemporary American artists so that it now numbers 84 oil paintings, representing 58 artists. This collection, which had been exhibited for some months at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, was transferred to the Museum building during the first week of July, 1909.
Congress having failed to authorize the adaptation of the large hall of the Smithsonian building for the exhibition of the rapidly in- creasing collection of works of art, it has become necessary to make temporary use of one of the halls in the new Museum building and its adaptation to that purpose will soon begin.
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY.
The Bureau of American Ethnology during the year has been engaged majnly in making summaries of the information resulting from many years of study, both in the field and office, of the lan- guages, social organization and government, systems of belief, reli- gious customs, and arts and industries of the Indians, as well as their physical and mental characteristics.
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The bureau has collected data relating to 60 families or hnguistic stocks and upward of 300 tribes. It does not expect to study all of the tribes in detail, but rather to investigate a sufficient number as types which may stand for all. The results of the work heretofore accomplished are embodied in 26 published reports, 36 bulletins, 8 volumes of contributions, and in many manuscripts preserved in the archives of the bureau. It has seemed wise at this stage of the re- searches to prepare a summary of our knowledge of the tribes, and this has taken the form of a Handbook of the Indians, of which one large volume is published and the second nearly through the press. In order to keep this summary within the compass of an easily con- sulted handbook many important subjects are treated merely in out- line. Other handbooks dealing with the more important branches of the work are in course of preparation. The first is the Hand- book of Languages, which is now in press and will form two volumes. The arts and industries are also being treated in separate volumes, and handbooks relating respectively to religions, folklore, social cus- toms, government, sign language, pictography, esthetic arts, phys- ical and mental characters, pathology and medicine, archeology, geo- graphical names, etc., are in prospect.
The people of the United States have two great obligations which the bureau is trying to fulfill: (1) That of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the Indian tribes in the interests of humanity; (2) that of preserving to the world an adequate record of the American race which is so rapidly disappearing. The work is of national, even of world-wide, importance, and unless steadfastly carried for- ward by the Government can never be completed.
Recently much popular interest has been manifested in the antiqui- ties of the country, more especially in the great pueblo ruins and cliff dwellings of the arid region, and the Fifty-ninth Congress enacted a law for the preservation of these antiquities. A first step in making this law effective is their exploration. A second is the excavation and repair of the more important ruins to insure their preservation and to make them available to the public and for study.
Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the Bureau of American Ethnology, has continued the work of excavation and repair of the ancient ruins in the Mesa Verde National Park, in cooperation with the Department of the Interior. During the year the repair of Spruce Tree House was completed, and at the end of June he had made excellent progress in uncovering and repairing the crumbling walls of Cliff Palace, the greatest of the ancient ruins of its kind in this country.
There is need also for ethnological work in the Hawaiian Islands and Samoa, for the following reasons: It is regarded as most im- portant that the Government should have definite and detailed in- formation regarding the native inhabitants of these islands, which
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are under its control and for whose welfare it is responsible. It is not less a duty of the nation to preserve some record of this peculiar race for the purposes of history and science, as neglect will become a source of deep regret. An experienced ethnologist should make investigations regarding the history, social institutions, religion, and general culture of the people, and a physical anthropologist should study their physical and mental characteristics.
A work by Dr. N. B. Emerson—Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: the Sacred Songs of the Hula—is now in press, and there is also be- ing prepared by Dr. Cyrus Thomas, of the bureau’s staff, and Prof. H. M. Ballou, of Boston, Mass., a catalogue of books and papers re- lating to the Hawaiian Islands.
Another field for research that should be developed is among the tribes of the Middle West. There is now a strong sentiment among historical societies and educational institutions of this section in favor of prosecuting more vigorously the studies of the tribal remnants of the Mississippi Valley, for it is realized that when the old people of the present generation have passed away the opportunity for collect- ing historical and ethnological data will be lost forever.
Mr. J. P. Dunn has been engaged as a collaborator of the bureau on a study of the linguistics of the Algonquian tribes of this region, and Prof. H. E. Bolton, of the University of Texas, has continued his studies on the tribes of Texas.
Other collaborators of the bureau have been making special investigations relating to various tribes in different parts of the country.
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES.
For the purpose of more fully carrying into effect the provisions of the exchange convention concluded at Brussels on March 15, 1886, and proclaimed by the President January 15, 1889, a resolution was passed by Congress during the year setting aside a certain number of copies of the daily Congressional Record for exchange with the legislative chambers of foreign countries. Under the authority contained in this resolution arrangements for the exchange of the parliamentary record have been entered into with 21 governments, and the matter has been taken up with a number of other countries. It should be stated in this connection that the convention here re- ferred to was the second exchange agreement concluded at Brussels between the United States and other countries on March 15, 1886. The first convention was for the exchange of government documents and scientific and literary publications, while the articles of the second agreement made it obligatory on the contracting States to transmit, immediately upon publication, a copy of the official journal to the legislatures of each. The full text of the resolution, together with
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further details concerning this exchange, will be found in the ap- pended report on the exchanges.
The increase in the number of packages handled by the bureau during the past year was the largest in the history of the exchanges— 25,777 more packages having passed through the service than in 1908, the total number being 228,875. The weight of these pack- ages was 476,169 pounds, a gain of 40,884 pounds over the preceding year.
The congressional appropriation for carrying on the system of exchanges during 1909 was $32,200 (the same amount as was granted for the preceding year), and the sum collected on account of repay- ments was $3,777.33, making the total available resources $35,977.33.
The results of the ‘effec ts of the bureau to procure larger returns of publications from abroad for the Library of Congress and the several departments and bureaus of the Government have been more than satisfactory—in fact, they have far exceeded my expectations, in some cases hundreds of volumes having been received.
The Japanese department of foreign affairs, which has in the past been good enough to distribute exchanges sent in its care for cor- respondents in Japan, has recently signified its willingness to for- ward to the Smithsonian Institution consignments bearing addresses in the United States.
A bureau of exchanges has been established by the Kingdom of Servia and placed under the direction of the department of foreign affairs at Belgrade, and the Argentine exchange bureau has been separated from the National Library and connected with the super- vising commission of public libraries at Buenos Aires.
The total number of full sets of United States official publications now sent regularly to depositories abroad is 55, and the number of partial sets 33, Servia having been added during the year to the former and Alsace-Lorraine to the latter.
The number of correspondents has increased from year to year until the aggregate is now 62,630, or 2 907 more than at the conclu- sion of the fiscal year 1908.
NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK.
The National Zoological Park during the year added 576 new animals to its collections, which offsets a loss of 562 by exchange, death, and return of animals, and brings the number of individuals on hand June 30, 1909, up to 1,416. There were 564,639 visitors, a daily average of about 1,547, the largest number in any one month being in April, when 127,635 were counted, a daily average of 4,254.
The entire support of the park was derived from an appropriation of $95,000 for general purposes, including the purchase, transporta- tion, care, and maintenance of animals; the care and improvement
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of grounds; the construction and repair of all buildings, inclosures, roads, walks, and bridges. Of this amount the increased price of necessary provisions and labor brought the cost of maintenance alone to about $85,000. It was therefore possible to do little toward per- mManent construction or improvement of the more or less temporary shelters, roads, walks, and inclosures which lack of adequate funds at the time of the inception of the park made it necessary to build. It has not been possible as yet to develop the park to the standard that such institutions usually attain at the capitals of great nations.
The improvements made during the year were for the most part those necessary for the safety of visitors. A series of yards for bears and ten new yards for foxes and wolves were constructed, however, and many of the roads treated with tar preparations to prevent dust and abrasion. The superintendent of the park states that there are needed: A new aquarium, the present building being originally a hay shed, now in a most dilapidated condition; a general aviary and out- of-door shelter for hardy birds; an inclosure for sea lions and seals; an antelope house; a more centrally located office building; a restau- rant and retiring rooms for visitors; and further improvements to roads and walks. .
Of the 576 accessions to the collections during the year, 124 were gifts to the park, 12 were received in exchange, 307 were purchased, 9 were deposited, 110 were born and hatched in the National Zoolog- ical Park, and 14 were captured in the Yellowstone National Park. It is expected that the collections of the Zoological Park will benefit either directly or indirectly through the Smithsonian African expe- dition under Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, which left this country in March and is at present engaged in gathering specimens of fauna in Africa.
The appropriations during the eighteen years since it was estab- lished have permitted of the erection of only three permanent build- ings, all of the others having necessarily been constructed cheaply and as temporary makeshifts to meet the successively urgent require- ments of the growing collections. The result is that at the present time most of the animals are housed in poor wooden buildings and exposed cages, which are not only inadequate and unsightly but also entail a larger annual expense for repairs and maintenance than the dictates of economy would seem to justify. Hlaborate and ornate buildings are not called for, but the necessity for substantial struc- tures adapted to the requirements of the different groups of animals can not be too strongly urged.
It is also to be borne in mind that the Zoological Park is a part of the great park system extending through Rock Creek Valley. Its main roads are continuous with those leading up the creek and are traversed by the same vehicles, including heavy automobiles, which
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makes it necessary to maintain these roads on a better basis than would be required if they were intended solely as entrances to the Zoological Park. The heavy expense which this involves falls upon the appropriation for the park, a fact which, it is felt, may not have been fully realized by the Congress in considering the park estimates.
Attention has heretofore been called to the importance of acquiring the narrow tracts of land lying between the park boundaries and the recently established highways on the southeast and west. The high- ways were located as close to the park as the topography would per- mit, so as to reduce these tracts to a minimum width, with the expectation that they would be acquired by the Government. Prop- erty in this vicinity is gradually increasing in value, and in the inter- est of economy the tracts should be secured now so that the park boundaries may be permanently established and guarded against injurious encroachment by adjacent grading.
ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY.
The work of the Astrophysical Observatory during the year con- sisted :
(1) Of bolometric observations carried on at Washington on the brightness of different parts of the sun’s image; also some experi- mental work on the transparency of the air for long-wave rays, such as the earth radiates. A computation of the results of these experi- ments is now far enough advanced to show their satisfactory quality. Precise knowledge of the selective absorption of our atmosphere for earth rays is still lacking, and contradictory views are still being expressed about this important subject; hence it is hoped that these: experiments will be useful in the study of the dependence of the earth’s temperature on radiation.
(2) Spectrobolometric measurements of the solar constant of radia- tion have been continued at the Mount Wilson observatory in Cali- fornia. As in former years, evidences of a fluctuation of solar radia- tion were found in the results of the measurements thus far obtained. A new and improved standard pyrheliometer was found to be more satisfactory than the one used in 1906, and great confidence is felt in the results obtained with it. Efforts have also been made to carry the bolometric measurements much farther in the ultra-violet through the use of a large quartz prism, a large ultra-violet glass prism, and two magnalium mirrors. Mr. Abbot, the director of the Astrophysical Observatory, visited the summit of Mount Whitney (14,502 feet), where the institution is preparing to erect a shelter house for the use of observers. This is the mountain upon which Mr. Langley carried on his well-known observations in 1881, and it is believed that the location will prove to be of great value in the further study of the solar constant of radiation.
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As stated in the two preceding annual reports, it is highly desirable
to continue the solar observations throughout the year, and this can be accomplished by observing during the winter and spring months in southern Mexico, where a cloudless sky and high altitude of the sun may be had, although during those months bad observing condi- tions occur in the United States. Hitherto lack of funds has pre- vented a Mexican expedition.
The work of the observatory is receiving highly favorable notice | both in this country and abroad, its results being employed by our own Weather Bureau and by foreign investigators as a basis for their measurements on the radiation of the sun.
INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC LITER- ATURE.
The purpose of the International Catalogue of Scientific Litera- ture is to collect and publish in 17 annual volumes a classified index of the current scientific publications of the world. This is accomplished by the cooperation of 32 of the principal countries of the world, each having a regional bureau which prepares the data necessary and indexes all scientific literature published within its domain. The material thus prepared is forwarded to a central bureau in London for publication in the annual volumes.
The various subscribers throughout the world bear the entire cost of printing and publishing by the central bureau, each country tak- ing part in the enterprise bearing the cost of indexing and classify- ing its own publications. The 17 annual volumes combined contain between 10,000 and 12,000 printed pages.
The regional bureau for the United States furnishes yearly about 30,000 classified citations to American scientific literature, which is between 11 and 12 per cent of the total work.
Millions of dollars are being spent each year in scientific investiga- tion and many of the foremost men of the day are devoting their entire time to such work. The results of their labors find publicity through some scientific journal of which there are over 5,000 being regularly indexed by the various regional bureaus, and over 500 in the United States alone. In addition to these periodicals are hun- dreds of books and pamphlets, all of which the International Cata- Jogue aims to index in its yearly work.
The International Catalogue furnishes in condensed, accurate, and permanent form a minutely classified index to all of these publica- tions. It is necessary for each paper to be carefully studied by a person competent to thoroughly understand the subject treated, as the method of classification actually furnishes a digest of the con- tents in addition to the usual bibliographical data. The catalogue is to science what the legal digest is to law.
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During the past year 34,409 classified index cards of American scientific literature were prepared and forwarded to London, as compared with 28,528 during the year preceding. The publication of the sixth annual issue was completed during the year and 9 of the 17 volumes of the seventh annual issue were received from the Central Bureau and distributed to the subscribers in this country.
NECROLOGY. OTIS TUFTON MASON.
It is with deep regret that I have to announce the death, on Novem- ber 5, 1908, of one of our strong men, Prof. Otis T. Mason, who had been associated with the Institution since 1873, first as a collaborator in ethnology, next as curator of that branch, and finally as head curator of the department of anthropology. I may say, indeed, that this association and influence dates much farther back, when, at 12 years of age, in 1851, he began his education in Washington when the activities of the Institution affected every intelligent citizen.
Professor Mason was born in 1888, so that his life has been almost contemporaneous with the Smithsonian Institution, and he bears an honorable share in its history. He says in his autobiography:
My first studies were in the culture of the eastern Mediterranean peoples, which I followed persistently until the early seventies, when a chance acquaint- ance with Professor Henry and Professor Baird, of the Smithsonian Institution, opened the Western Hemisphere to my mind and changed the current of my life.
His agreeable qualities as a man, his earnestness in his work, and his contagious enthusiasm render this loss a most severe one to the Institution.
Respectfully submitted. Cuarues D. Watcort, Secretary.
APPENDIX I.
REPORT ON THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM.
Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report on the operations of the United States National Museum for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909:
BUILDINGS.
Although it had been fully expected, as explained in the last report, that the new building would be completed before the close of the year, delayed contracts and other circumstances interfered so greatly with the progress of the work that no part of the structure was in condition for occupancy at the end of June. The entire stonework of the outer walls of the building, including the porch, columns, and front of the south pavilion in which the main entrance is located, was, however, finished, as were the roofs and skylights of the build- ing generally. The placing of the slate on the dome of the rotunda and on the adjacent roof of the south pavilion was under way, but the laying of the extensive granite approaches, for which the stone has been delivered, had not been begun.
Much remains to be done in the interior of the rotunda, but as it is the main part of the building which is most urgently needed for the accommodation of the collections and laboratories, it is there that the work has been most energetically prosecuted. Except for some special items, such as metal doors, transoms, ete., the construction of which will require several months, it is expected that at least some parts of the building will be ready for use and that the moving from the older buildings may be started before autumn.
It is interesting to mention that the building has already been made to serve a commendable purpose as the meeting place of the Sixth International Tuberculosis Congress, held in the early autumn of 1908. Being then in a very unfinished. condition, it was necessary to make special arrangements, authorized by an act of Congress, for such partitions and other fittings as were required for the accommodation of the several sections and for the display of the exten- sive collections that were brought together. A large part of the first and second floors as well as of the basement was given over to the congress, and while the progress of construction on the building was thereby much retarded, the delay may be regarded as fully sanctioned by the exceptionally important nature of the event which occasioned it.
The reconstruction of the main roofs of the old Museum building was com- pleted during the summer of 1908, when the slate covering of the rotunda was replaced with tin. The use of slate on these roofs in the beginning had been a mistake in view of their generally slight pitch and the relatively light charac- ter of the supporting iron framework. The old roofs had always leaked badly, but up to the present time the new ones have shown no weakness of any kind, and it is felt that they have been built in a proper and substantial manner. Other important repairs interfered with the work of filling in the large arch- ways between the halls of the old building, intended, as explained in previous
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reports, to provide against the spread of fire, though something was done in this direction. .A much-needed alteration in the arrangements and conveniences of the photograph gallery was in progress at the end of the year.
Much work was done in the preparation and construction of furniture for the new building, more especially for the storage rooms and laboratories, in which it is important that fireproof material be employed to the greatest ex- tent possible. There is already in use a large amount of wooden furniture of modern and appropriate design which it would be extravagant to dispense with, and it is therefore being sheathed with sheet steel to conform to the required conditions.
In regard to new storage furniture, an effort is being made to obtain all metal work, and in view of its recent reduction in cost, due to competition, it now appears feasible to provide for the protection of the immense reserve col- lections on a basis in keeping with the substantial character of the building. There were on hand at the close of the year 2,407 exhibition cases, 3,184 storage cases, and 1,645 pieces of office and laboratory furniture.
The boiler and electrical plant installed in the new building, embodying the latest improvements, is found to be of sufficient capacity for also heating and lighting the older buildings, and, in the interest of economy, it has been de- cided to make this one plant serve for all. Plans for carrying this arrangement into effect were nearly completed at the close of the year, and it is expected that the connections can be made before autumn. It will be necessary to con- struct a small tunnel for carrying the pipes and wires from the new building to the Smithsonian building, where they will enter the existing conduits. While the new building will be heated by hot water, steam will be carried to the older buildings, the latter being the medium for which their pipes and radiators
are now adapted. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART.
By a third deed of gift, dated May 10, 1909, Mr. Charles L. Freer, of Detroit, Mich., added to his large donation of American and oriental art the following examples acquired since the transfer of the previous year, namely: Four oil paintings and 1 pastel, by Dwight W. Tryon; 3 oil paintings and 1 pastel, by Thomas W. Dewing; a portrait of ex-President Roosevelt, by J. Gari Melchers; 2 oil paintings, 1 water color, 4 drawings and sketches, 1 album of sketches, and 3 etchings and dry points, by James McNeill Whistler; 4 oriental paintings; 247 pieces of oriental pottery; and 25 miscellaneous examples of oriental art.
Mr. William T. Evans, of New York, also continued to make important addi- tions to his collection of the works of contemporary American artists, which, at the close of the year, numbered 84 oil paintings received in Washington, rep- resenting 58 artists. As the Corcoran Gallery of Art required for its own use the space which has been occupied by the Evans pictures, the transfer of the latter was arranged for in June and carried into effect during the first week of July, 1909. The walls and screens of the picture gallery in the Museum building were entirely given over to this collection, and the new installation displays the paintings to much better advantage than the previous one. This , change, however, necessitated the removal of the paintings which have hitherto been hanging in the gallery to temporary quarters in the Smithsonian building.
It has now become imperative to provide some place where the paintings be- longing to the National Gallery of Art can be segregated, and since the fitting up of the second story of the Smithsonian building has so far failed to secure the approval of Congress, it has been decided to make temporary: use of one of the skylighted halls in the new Museum building. Its adaptation to this pur- pose will be taken up early in the new fiscal year.
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It should be mentioned that the full-length portrait of Guizot, the French statesman and writer, by G. P. A. Healy, belonging to the Government, has been recalled from the Corcoran Gallery of Art. An important addition to the historical-portrait series is a full-length painting of Rear-Admiral George W. ‘Melville, U. S. Navy, by Sigismond de Ivanowski. This portrait was executed on the order of a number of friends of the distinguished naval officer and pre- sented through the American Society of Mechanical Engineers at their annual meeting, held in Washington, in May, 1909.
ART TEXTILES.
The loan collection of art textiles and other objects begun in May, 1908, by Mrs. James W. Pinchot, with the assistance of a number of ladies of Washing- ton, has received much attention, and its importance has been greatly increased by many valuable additions. The limited amount of space which could be allotted to this subject in the picture gallery tended to restrict the number of contributions, but as soon as the removal of the paintings to another hall has been effected the entire area of the present one will become available. The col- lection is now contained in 24 cases, of which 9 are devoted to laces, 7 to other art fabrics, 4 to porcelains, 2 to enamels, and 2 to fans. With these are also exhibited numerous examples of silverware, jewelry, and wood and ivory carving. There have been 22 contributors since the last report. The assemblage of lace constitutes the most noteworthy part of the collection, being exceeded in variety and value only by the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York and the Boston Museum of the Fine Arts. This art movement, so auspiciously inaugurated and so earnestly supported, if it be sedulously fol- lowed up, is certain to prove an important factor in the future history of the National Museum. It was started with the definite purpose of stimulating the formation of a permanent exhibit, which should be valued not only on account of its attractiveness and historical interest, but more especially as furnishing motives and designs which may help to elevate the standard of art workman- ship in this country. Its growth has been exceptional, and it is hoped that its intent will be fulfilled.
ADDITIONS TO THE COLLECTIONS.
The total number of accessions to the Museum during the year was 1,358, comprising 254,787 specimens, distributed among the three departments, as fol- lows: Anthropology, 26,400; biology, 216,324; and geology, 12,068.
Department of Anthropology.—The most important contribution in ethnology consisted of about 500 objects illustrating the handiwork and domestic arts of the natives of southwestern Borneo, collected and presented by Dr. W. L. Abbott, to whom the Museum was already indebted for several large gifts of a similar character from the Malaysian region. Next should be mentioned a valuable collection obtained by Dr. AleS Hrdli¢ka in the course of his investiga- tions relative to tuberculosis among the Indians of the southwestern United States, and many objects from the northern coast of Alaska, donated by Mr. KE. de K. Leffingwell, who is conducting extensive explorations in that region. Etbnological material was also received from the Philippine Islands, Africa, and Central and South America.
Most noteworthy among the additions in prehistoric archeology were the collections resulting from the work of Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the Bureau of American Ethnology, in the excavations and repairs, conducted first at the Casa Grande ruins in Arizona, under a special appropriation by Congress to the Smithsonian Institution, and, later, at the Spruce Tree House in the Mesa
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Verde National Park, Colo., under authority from the Department of the In- terior. The number of objects forwarded to Washington from the former locality was 662 and from the latter 501. In these important undertakings, justified by the great historical and scientific significance of the ruins, every- thing that formed an integral part of the structures or could be safely left at the sites was allowed to remain, only such objects being taken away as would tend to attract looting or would be likely to fall into the hands of unwarranted collectors.
The division of historic archeology was enriched by a manuscript of the Mahabarata, the great epic of India, containing 90,000 couplets, written in Sanscrit characters on palm leaves, a gift from the learned Rajah Sir Sourindro Mobhun Tagore. Several interesting additions were made to the very valuable loan collection of Jewish ceremonial objects by the generous friend of the Museum, Haidji Ephriam Benguiat, of New York.
The collections of physical anthropology, which are not restricted to the human race, but also extend to other groups of the higher vertebrates, received important additions from many widely separated regions. Mention should especially be made of the generous action by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of New York City, in allowing the National Museum to share, without expense, in the results of its Egyptian excavations, which are in charge of Prof. Albert M. Lythgoe. The skeletal remains of the ancient Egyptians found in the tombs uncovered by the explorations, and hitherto not generally preserved, are now being saved and in greater part turned over to the National Museum, where their study should result in interesting contributions on the physcial character- istics of these peoples. A large number of remains were received during the year, and, on the invitation of the Metropolitan Museum, Doctor Hrdliéka, assistant curator in charge of these collections, had the opportunity of visiting Egypt last winter for the purpose of instructing the excavators as to the best methods of preserving and packing the remains for shipment and of making studies on the spot.
The division of technology received numerous accessions, including many objects transferred from the Patent Office. The subjects principally represented were firearms (of which the Museum collection is now the finest in the coun- try), electrical devices, calculating machines, printing presses, the early history of the aeroplane, and watch movements.
Two gifts of exceptional beauty and value from the Government of China were added to the collections in ceramics. One was a celadon vase of large size and graceful shape, the other one of the famous peachblow vases from the imperial treasure house at Mukden.
To each of the divisions of graphic arts and musical instruments a few addi- tions were made. Plans were begun for broadening and enlarging the collec- tions of medicine so as to meet the requirements of the recent extensive inves- tigations into this subject, and they will be carried out as soon as additional space becomes available.
Among many gifts and loans to the division of history, mention should be made of a number of valuable presents to the Hon. Gustavus Vasa Fox by the Czar of Russia during his mission to that country in 1866, and bequeathed to the Museum by his widow; also interesting relics of the Jeannette arctic expedi- tion of 1879-1881, and memorials of Gen. Judson Kilpatrick, U. S. Army, and Commander Harry H. Hosley, U. S. Navy.
Department of Biology.—The largest amount of zoological material from any single source was derived from the Bureau of Fisheries, and especially from the explorations of the steamer Albatross among the Philippine Islands, in which Dr. Paul Bartsch, assistant curator of mollusks, participated for about
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a year, being detailed as a member of the scientific staff of that vessel. A part of the collections obtained on this expedition, including over 100,000 speci- mens of mollusks and other groups of marine invertebrates, was transferred directly to the Museum:for working up. Doctor Bartsch was also enabled to make some important collections of birds and reptiles. The same bureau likewise turned over to the Museum other important collections of marine invertebrates and fishes, chiefly from explorations in various parts of the Pacifie Ocean.
Among important gifts were about 1,200 European mammals presented by Mr. Oldfield Thomas, of the British Museum, and Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, jr.; about 700 mammals and 200 birds collected in Borneo by Dr. W. lL. Abbott; about 600 specimens, mainly of invertebrate animals obtained in Labrador, by Mr. Owen Bryant; and a large collection of Peruvian reptiles, mollusks, crusta- ceans, and sponges from the Peruvian Government. The large collection of birds secured during the expedition of Mr. Robert Ridgway to Costa Rica was received in the summer of 1908. Besides those mentioned above the prin- cipal accessions of reptiles came from the Philippines and Panama, and of fishes from New South Wales and Florida. :
The division of insects received over 32,000 specimens, including several accessions of special value. Mr. William Schaus added to his previous note- worthy donations about 16,000 specimens of Lepidoptera from Costa Rica and other tropical countries. Mr. H. L. Viereck, of the Bureau of Entomology, and Mr. J. C. Crawford, of the National Museum, presented their private collec- tions of Hymenoptera, amounting to over 5,000 specimens in all. Lord Wal- Singham and Mr. F. D. Codman contributed many Central American species deseribed in the Biologia Centrali Americana. 'The balance of the accessions consisted mainly of transfers from the Department of Agriculture, and repre- sented many parts of the United States.
The additions to the collections of mollusks and other marine invertebrates were mainly derived from the explorations of the Bureau of Fisheries, as else- where described. <A notable gift from the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen, Denmark, consisted of several hundred crabs from the Gulf of Siam, including 20 genera and 66 species new to the Museum.
The herbarium received extensive collections, coming mostly from Mexico, New Mexico, Oregon, and the Philippines.
Department of Geology.—Nine series of rock specimens, the results of field work in as many parts of the United States, were transferred by the Geological ‘Survey. In invertebrate paleontology the more noteworthy additions were a large series of Cambrian fossils from the Rocky Mountain region, resulting from the explorations of Secretary Walcott during the summer of 1908; a large collection of Paleozoic fossils from the Appalachian Valley and central Ten- nessee, made by the curator of the division; and a collection of Tertiary fossils from the Coalinga district, California, received from the Geological Survey. A large amount of material from the Fort Union beds of Sweet Grass County, Mont., representing many new and little known mammalian species, constituted the principal accession in vertebrate paleontology.
CARE AND PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS.
The collections have been maintained in good condition notwithstanding the overcrowding in all the divisions. Much of the routine work was planned with the view of placing the collections in such shape as to permit of their removal to the new building in systematic order, but the delay in the completion of the building has made this part of the task especially difficult. With the assur-
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ance that the new structure would be finished during the winter or spring of 1909, no appropriation was requested or obtained for, continuing the occupancy of the rented buildings, in which, for many years, large quantities of museum specimens and other property have been housed. As these buildings had to be surrendered at the end of the year it became necessary to transfer nearly all of this material in bulk to the new building, where it occupies a large part of one of the exhibition floors. Under more favorable circumstances it would have been unpacked and assorted beforehand.
As good progress was made in the sorting, classifying, labeling, and cata- loguing of the accessions of the year as was possible under the adverse condi- tions and with the relatively small staff of experts attached to the Museum. The examination of the collections resulting in many important scientific con- tributions, in which a number of specialists connected with other establishments have participated.
The exhibition collections have been added to and changed only in minor ways, principally in connection with the loan collection of art textiles, tech- nology, history, and historic archeology.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Of duplicate material, chiefly natural history, separated from the collections in the course of recent studies, over 9,000 specimens arranged in classified sets for educational purposes were distributed to many high-grade schools and colleges throughout the country. About 10,000 duplicates were used in making exchanges with museums and other scientific establishments, from which an equivalent in new material has been or will be received. To specialists in different fields connected with other institutions, both at home and abroad, about 19,000 specimens were sent for examination, all of which, except some of the duplicates, will be returned to the Museum. A large part of the work on these loan collections is being carried on directly in the interest of the Na- tional Museum.
The number of visitors to the public halls was a little less than a quarter of a million, which is about the annual average. This is in striking contrast with the records of large museums in other places, where the hours of opening are extended to evenings and Sundays for the benefit of the working people. While the additional cost involved in the extra hours of heating and the employment of a few more watchmen would be inconsiderable, the means at the disposal of the museum have never been quite sufficient to accomplish this worthy purpose. It is hoped that this matter may be satisfactorily adjusted in connection with the new building.
The publications issued by the Museum consisted of the annual report for the year ended June 30, 1908; volumes 84 and 35 and part of volume 36 of the Proceedings; 8 bulletins and parts of 2 other bulletins. They comprised 91 separate papers and memoirs, all of which except the administrative report were descriptive of Museum collections. In addition, a number of papers of the same character were printed in the Quarterly Issue of the Miscellaneous Col- lections of the Smithsonian Institution and elsewhere.
The additions to the library. which is restricted to the subjects covered by the activities of the Museum, consisted of 2,680 books, 3,671 pamphlets, and 227 parts of volumes, which increased the total contents of the library to 36,244 volumes and 56,010 unbound papers. ‘The annual appropriation of $2,000 for the purchase of books, periodicals, and pamphlets required for the classification of collections, is wholly inadequate to meet the needs of this work, and should be at least doubled. For a large part of its increase the library is dependent
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upon gifts and exchanges, but even these means combined with the purchase fund are not nearly sufficient to satisfy the important demands in this direction.
In conjunction with the Institution, the Museum is participating extensively in the government exhibit at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition at Seattle, which opened on June 1 and will close on October 16. The general subject which, in accordance with the law, the Institution and Museum were directed to illustrate. is that part of the national history of the United States which re- Jates to Alaska, the Philippine Islands, and that section of the eountry lying west of the Rocky Mountains. Samoa and Guam have also been included. The collections assembled for this purpose, obtained partly from original sources and in part selected from the Museum exhibits, consist of models, pictures, and actual objects, representing the peoples, conditions, etc., from prehistoric to modern times. The exhibit is interesting and instructive and has been attrac- tively arranged.
The Museum, in conjunction with the Bureau of American Ethnology, also sent to the International Photographic Exhibition at Dresden, Germany, a series of enlarged photographic prints and transparencies covering a variety of subjects, but designed to illustrate the perfection to which the art of photog- raphy has attained in this country in the portrayal of scientific subjects.
Respectfully submitted.
RICHARD RATHBUN, Assistant Secretary in charge of U. S. National Museum. Dr. CHARLES D. WALCOTT, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
APPENDIX II. REPORT ON THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY.
Sir: The operations of the Bureau of American Ethnology for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1909, conducted in accordance with the act of Congress making provision for continuing researches relating to the American Indians, under direction of the Smithsonian Institution, were carried forward in con- formity with the plan of operations approved by the Secretary June 18, 1908.
As in previous years, the systematic ethnologic work of the bureau was in- trusted mainly to the regular scientific staff, which comprises eight members. As this force is not large enough to give adequate attention to more than a limited portion of the great field of research afforded by the hundreds of Indian tribes, the deficiency was supplied in a measure by enlisting the aid of other specialists in various branches of ethnologic work. By this means the bureau was able to extend its researches in several directions at a compara- tively modest outlay.
The work of the bureau for the year comprised: (A) The continuation of yarious unfinished researches among the Indian tribes and (B) the summar- izing for publication of available data from all sources.
(A) The unfinished researches were in continuation of systematic investiga- tions already in hand and were essential to a reasonable rounding out of the work among the tribes. These researches were distributed as follows:
Regular force: Matilda Coxe Stevenson, the Pueblo tribes; James Mooney, the Great Plains tribes; J. N. B. Hewitt, the Iroquoian tribes; J. R. Swanton, the Southern tribes; F. W. Hodge, literary researches for the Handbook of the Indians; J. W. Fewkes, archeology of Southwestern tribes; W. H. Holmes, technology of the tribes; Cyrus Thomas, bibliography of Hawaii.
Collaborators: Franz Boas and eight assistants, the languages of the tribes; AleS Hrdlitka, the physical anthropology of the tribes; Frances Densmore, ceremony and songs of the Ojibwa tribes; J. P. Dunn, linguistics of the Algon- quian tribes of the Middle West; N. B. Emerson, the Hawaiians; H. M. Ballou, the Hawaiians; H. BH. Bolton, the tribes of Texas; J. P. Reagan, Northwest Coast tribes; Alice C. Fletcher, the Omaha tribe; Francis La Flesche, the Omaha tribe; W. F. Gerard, etymology of Indian names.
(B) The summarizing of the materials now available relating to the tribes was initiated by the preparation of the Handbook of the Indians, which assumes to cover the whole ground in brief articles arranged in alphabetical order. Its preparation has led to a clearer understanding of the work done and to be done, and the researches now in hand contemplate the preparation of a series of handbooks, each to be devoted to a full presentation of a single branch of the subject, as follows:
(a) Handbook of the Tribes: History, distribution, settlements, population, ete., of each stock, tribe, and minor group. Preliminary assemblage of the data is embraced in the present Handbook of American Indians, of which Part I is published and Part II almost ready.
(b) Handbook of Languages: Volume I now in press, Volume II in prepa- ration. As several hundred languages are to be considered, a number of years will be required to complete the work.
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(c) Handbook of Race History: Physical and mental characters, physiology, pathology, medicine, etc. Researches in hand, but requiring extensive addi- tional investigation.
(d@) Handbook of Social Systems: Organization and customs of society, the family, clan, tribe, confederacy, government, etc. A large body of material is already in hand, but much additional research is necessary.
(e€) Handbook of Religions: Religious customs, rites and ceremonies, folk- lore, etc. The large body of data in hand requires much elaboration, with additional research.
(f) Handbook of Technology: Arts, industries, implements, utensils, manu- factures, building, hunting, fishing, ete.
(g) Handbook of the Hsthetic Arts: Painting, sculpture, ornaments, music, drama, etc.
(h) Handbook of Sign Language.
(4) Handbook of Pictography.
(j) Handbook of Treaties and Land Cessions.
(%) Handbook of Games and Amusements.
(1) Handbook of Burial Customs.
(m) Handbook of Economics: Food resources, culinary arts, medicinal re- sources, etc.
(1) Handbook of Archeology. The extensive researches of past years need to be supplemented by much additional exploration.
(0) Handbook of Geographical Names.
(p) Handbook of Hawaii. Researches initiated by the preparation of a bib- liography of 6,200 titles now nearly ready and a work on mythology now in press.
(q) Bibliographies.
(r) Dictionaries.
(s) Grammars.
(t) Portfolios of portraits, etc.
The body of data in hand relating to the Indians probably surpasses that heretofore obtained relating to any primitive people, but still falls short of the rounding out that should characterize the work of the American nation, dealing as it does with a race and a culture which are rapidly disappearing.
During the year researches were carried on in Arizona, New Mexico, Col- orado, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, South Carolina, Indiana, and Oregon, and were incidentally extended to the Argentine Republic, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, California, Washington, and British Columbia.
The chief devoted his time while in the office to the administrative work of the bureau, giving the necessary attention to his duties as curator of the Section of Prehistoric Archeology and to the National Gallery of Art in the National Museum. During the year considerable progress was made in the preparation of a work already well advanced, on the stone implements of North America.
Haying been designated by. thé Department of State to represent the Smith- sonian Institution at the First Pan-American Scientific Congress, held at San- tiago, Chile (at which he represented also the George Washington University), on October 29 the chief took passage on the Hamburg-American steamer Amerika for England, sailing thence by way of Vigo, Spain, and Lisbon, Portu- gal, to Buenos Aires. After spending ten days in the Argentine capital with members of the delegation, making official visits and pursuing studies in va- rious public institutions, he traversed the pampean country by rail to Mendoza, and thence up the Mendoza River to Las Cuevas at the base of the cumbre or erest of the Andes. Taking coach at this point he crossed to the Chilean
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side and soon reached Santiago. The three weeks spent in Santiago were taken up largely with affairs of the delegation, including official duties and attend- ance on meetings of the Congress. The section of the natural sciences, includ- ing anthropology, met daily, and on December 28 the chief acted as chairman of the section. His contribution to the programme of the congress was a paper on “ The peopling of America,” an abstract of which follows ::
Discussion of the problem of the origin of the American aborigines involves consideration of several important questions, as follows:
(1) Evolution of the human species from lower forms.
(2) Geographical location of the original home of the race.
(5) Dispersal to the different land areas of the globe.
(4) Differentiation of the subraces physically and culturally.
(5) Chronology of the racial history.
In the present state of our knowledge we can not assume to dispose finally of these several questions. It is most important, however, that the whole sub- ject should be passed under review at frequent intervals, and the data as- sembled, classified, and critically examined. The writer’s views, formulated after careful consideration of the various phases of the subject presented, con- sidering more especially the North American evidence, are expressed in the following summary of probabilities:
(1) That the human family is monogenetic; that is to say, the present sub- races have been derived by differentiation from a common stock.
(2) That the precursor—that is to say, man before he reached the human status—occupied a limited area.
(8) That this area was tropical or subtropical and was situated in the Old World rather than in the New.
(4) That multiplication of numbers led to wide distribution, and that isola- tion on distinct land areas finally led to the differentiation of the subraces.
(5) That the separation into distinct groups began at an early period, but not until after the typical human characters had been developed.
(6) That the human characters were acquired in Tertiary time, and that dissemination extended to distant continents, mainly in Quaternary time.
(7) That the pioneers of the present American race belonged to the well- differentiated Asiatic subrace and that they reached America by way of Bering Strait.
(S) That the early migrations included few individuals and occurred at widely separated periods; that the movements were slow and by means of the ice bridge in winter or by skin boats in summer.
(9) That the culture of the immigrants in all cases was very primitive, not rising above the hunter-fisher stage.
(10) That successive migrations involved numerous distinct groups or tribes, so that the American race is a composite of diversified Asiatic elements more or less completely amalgamated.
(11) That the result was a new people and a new culture, essentially American.
(12) That the Eskimo—forming a widely distributed ethnic group occupying the northern shores of ‘both continents—acquired their physical characteristics and peculiar culture under the influence of Arctic conditions, and that they are the descendants of marginal tribes early forced to the northward from southern Eurasian sources of population.
(18) That occasional accessions of population may have resulted from the accidental arrival of voyagers from other lands, though not in numbers large enough to affect the race perceptibly.
(14) That in the present period prior to the Columbian discovery occasional voyagers from southern Asiatic culture centers or from Japan or China may have reached American shores and left an impress on the culture of middle America.
(15) That the peopling of America with the present race was accomplished in late Glacial or post-Glacial time rather than in early Glacial or Tertiary time.
(16) That much of the recorded geological evidence of great human antiquity in America is unreliable and requires critical revision.
(17) That the aboriginal peoples will soon disappear as the result of inter- minglings with other races and failure to accommodate themselves to new con- ditions: that America will be fully occupied by a cosmopolitan people embody-
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ing the best elements of every civilization—a race of superior capacity and force, destined in its full fruition to surpass all others in the grandeur of its achievements; and that the activities of the present and of future Pan-Ameri- can scientific congresses will contribute a worthy share in the accomplishment of this grand result.
At the closing session of the congress the chief was made a member of a com- mittee of five to arrange for the next meeting of the congress, to be held in Washington, D. C., in October, 1912.
While in Santiago much attention was given to the national museum, which contains a great deal of material illustrating the ethnology and archeology of Chile, and a number of private collections, rich chiefly in Peruvian antiquities, were visited.
The homeward trip from Santiago included excursions to Bolivia, where the small national museum was visited and where studies were made of the ruined city of Tiahuanaco; to Peru, where a brief period was devoted to a study of the rich collections of the national museum; and to Panama for a short stay. Washington was reached on February 11, and reports were then prepared for the institutions which the chief represented as delegate and for publication in scientific journals.
The services of the chief were enlisted during the early months of the year in the preparation of the Institution’s exhibit to illustrate the history of the Pacific Coast States and the Pacific islands at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposi- tion at Seattle. Before leaving for South America in October he designed a number of lay-figure family groups, which were elaborated by the sculptor during the winter months; and on his return from the South he attended to the completion of these groups and to the construction of a model of the Santa Bar- bara mission establishment, California, for the exposition. On May 4 he pro- ceeded to Seattle to assist in setting up the exhibits, stopping en route to select a site on the southern rim of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado suitable for the erection of the monument to the late Maj. J. W. Powell recently provided for by the Congress; at Los Angeles, to examine the collections in the Southwestern Museum; at Santa Barbara, to study the plan of the mission; and at San Francisco, to visit the museum of the University of California. While in Seattle visits were made to Tacoma, Wash., and to Victoria, British Columbia, for the purpose of examining collections of ethnological and archeological material preserved in these places. The chief returned to Washington on June 11.
During the year the chief made studies of a more or less elaborate nature in the following museums:
Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, England.
University of La Plata Museum, Argentine Republic.
Faculty of Philosophy and Letters Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic.
National Museum, Buenos Aires.
National Museum, Santiago, Chile.
National Museum, La Paz, Bolivia.
National Museum, Lima, Peru.
California University Museum, San Francisco.
Southwestern Museum, Los Angeles.
Ferry Museum (Tozier collection), Tacoma, Wash.
University of Washington Museum, Seattle, Wash.
Provincial Museum, Victoria, British Columbia.
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.
Academy of Sciences Museum, Philadelphia.
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Karly in the year the bureau was urged by the officers of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association to contribute data relating to the history of the Indian tribes of the region for the meeting of the association convened in St. Louis June 15, 1909. The chief contributed a paper entitled ‘“ Remarks on the aboriginal history of the Mississippi Valley;” and Mr. James Mooney and Dr. John R. Swanton were designated to. attend the meeting and present papers dealing with kindred subjects.
Mrs. M. C. Stevenson, ethnologist, remained in the field, in New Mexico, during the entire year. Having established headquarters at HEspafiola, she devoted her time largely to investigations among the local Pueblo tribes, inter- rupting the work for short periods to record valuable data communicated by visiting members of the Zuni tribe. Her researches included detailed studies of the history, social organization and customs, religion and religious prac- tices, and arts and industries of the Santa Clara and San Ildefonso tribes; and progress was made in the comparative study of these varied subjects among the numerous pueblos.
Aside from the more systematic ethnological work, Mrs. Stevenson gave much attention to her unfinished papers on “The preparation of cotton, yucca, and wool for the loom by the New Mexican tribes” and on the “ Medicinal and food plants used by the Zuni Indians.”
Mr. F. W. Hodge, ethnologist, was engaged chiefly in continuing the editorial work on Part 2 of the Handbook of American Indians, carrying along the preof reading toward the close of the alphabet and writing and inserting many ar- ticles on lesser subjects that it had been found essential to include. In this work he had the assistance especially of Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, who prepared articles pertaining chiefly to the Iroquois tribes; of Mr. William R. Gerard, of New York, who revised and rewrote humerous articles involving the etymology of Indian terms; and of Dr. Herbert E. Bolton, of the University of Texas, who continued to supply, to the end of the alphabet, articles relating to the tribes of Texas. The work of completing the second part of the Handbook of American Indians did not proceed as rapidly as was hoped at the beginning of the year, owing to the fact that the burden of the administrative work of the bureau devolved upon Mr. Hodge when the chief was called to South America and later to the Seattle Exposition, as previously mentioned. In the handbook work Mr. Hodge had the clerical assistance of Mrs. Frances Nichols. It is now expected that Part 2 will be ready for distribution in the near future. Mr. Hodge represented the bureau on the Smithsonian advisory com- mittee on printing and publication, and served also as a member of the sub- committee on bibliographical citations. In addition he prepared answers to many inquiries from correspondents, oftentimes requiring considerable research.
Dr. Cyrus Thomas, ethnologist, devoted his time during the year to work on the catalogue of books and papers relating to the Hawaiian Islands. This eatalogue, in the preparation of which Prof..H. M. Ballou, of Boston, Mass., is joint author, has grown to an extent not anticipated at the outset. During the last and next preceding fiscal years Professor Ballou examined, for this purpose, the libraries of Boston and other cities of New England, and also of New York. He also visited Hawaii, where he made a careful examination of the public and private libraries of Honolulu, obtaining thereby considerable early mission and official material of a bibliographical nature not found else- where. During the same period Doctor Thomas visited Boston and Worcester twice, searching the libraries chiefly along special lines to which Professor Ballou had not given exhaustive attention; he also devoted considerable time to an examination of the libraries of Washington. In addition to these researches considerable bibliographical material has been obtained by corre-
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spondence. As a result of this work the number of titles in the catalogue (which is now about finished) reaches some 6,200—more than eight times the number in the largest catalogue in the same field hitherto published. Hon. George R. Carter, former governor of the Territory of Hawaii, has given much encouragement to this work; in fact, with Professor Ballou, he formed the leading spirit in its inception, though the beginning of the work for the bureau was undertaken quite independently. Doctor Thomas has appended a subject or cross-reference catalogue of about 3,200 titles, which is so nearly complete that it is hoped the entire work will be submitted for publication before the end of August, 1909. In addition to this work Doctor Thomas assisted to some extent in the preparation of Part 2 of the Handbook of American Indians, and attended to such official correspondence as was referred to him.
Mr. James Mooney, ethnologist, during the entire year was occupied chiefly in an investigation of the subject of the Indian population north of Mexico at the period of first disturbance and occupancy of the country by the whites. A preliminary study was condensed for introduction into Part 2 of the Hand- book of the Indians. The final work is expected to appear as a bulletin of the bureau. The investigation is being carried out in detail for each well- defined geographic section, and for each tribe or tribal group separately, from the earliest period to the present, with careful sifting of authorities and con- Sideration of Indian habits of living. No such detailed and extended study of the subject has ever before been attempted, and the result must prove of interest and importance. The usual share of attention was given also through- out the year to the preparation and proof reading of various articles for the Handbook of the Indians and to routine correspondence. On request of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Mr. Mooney, together with Doctor Swanton, attended the meeting of that body at St. Louis, June 17-19, as repre- Sentatives of the bureau, and presented papers on the ethnology of the central region.
During the year Dr. John R. Swanton, ethnologist, was engaged as follows: The months of October, November, and December, 1908, were spent in Okla- homa, Texas, and Louisiana. In Oklahoma the Natchez linguistic material eollected by Gallatin, Pike, Brinton, and Gatschet was gone over with one of the four surviving speakers of the Natchez language, and about fifty pages of text were recorded. In Texas the Alibamu Indians were visited in an en- deavor, partially successful, to determine the relationship of the Pascagoula tribe, formerly resident near them. In Louisiana the linguistic material col- lected by Gatschet and Duralde was gone over with some of the surviving Attacapa, Chitimacha, and Tunica. On the way to Washington Doctor Swan- ton visited Columbia, S. C., to examine the early archives of that State. The most important result of the expedition, however, was the discovery at Marks- ville, La., of a woman who remembers a large amount of the Ofo language formerly spoken on Yazoo River. As large a vocabulary of this language as possible was recorded.
In the office Doctor Swanton completed the proof reading of his work “ Tlin- git myths and texts,” which was ready for the press at the close of the year. He completed also a bulletin on “The Indian tribes of the lower Mississippi ‘Valley and northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico,” and read proofs of the same. Additional work was accomplished as follows: The editing of the late J. O. Dorsey’s material on the Biloxi language (in press), and the proof reading of the same; the copying of texts collected during the field expedition above referred to, and incorporating the linguistic material then obtained with the material previously collected in the Natchez, Attacapa, Chitimacha, and Tunica languages, and the copying on cards of the Ofo vocabulary; the reading of
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galley proofs of sketches of the grammar of the Haida and the Tlingit for the Handbook of Indian Languages; assistance rendered Doctor Thomas in preparing for publication his bulletin on the languages of Mexico and Central America, and work incidental to the preparation for publication of Byington’s Choctaw Dictionary (in press).
Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, ethnologist, was occupied in the office during the entire year. For a large portion of the time he was engaged in amending and transcribing the Onondaga text which, with a long supplement, is to form Part II of his Iroquoian Cosmology, and in supplying an interlinear rendering and a free translation of the text. From his researches in connection with the preparation of articles for the Handbook of the American Indians he arrived at facts which greatly modify hitherto accepted views regarding the location and interrelations of the tribes around lakes Huron and Michigan. In this connection he pursued extended studies of the early history of the Potawatomi, Mascoutens, Kickapoo, Sauk, Foxes, Miami, and the “ Nation de la Fourche,” or ‘“‘ Tribe of the Fork,” in an effort to identify these tribes with those known to the early Hurons by names which occur in the writings of Champlain, Sagard, and the Jesuit Fathers. The expulsion of the Potawatomi, Sauk, Foxes, and the Tribe of the Fork from their earliest known habitat in Michigan by the Neutrals and their Ottawa ai.ies—not by the Iroquois, as commonly asserted—was determined, and the most probable course of their retreat fixed. Similar research was conducted among early records to determine as far as possible the identity of the tribes whose names are recorded on the Dutch “Carte Figurative’ of 1614, which represents them as living along the middle and upper Susquehanna River and its western affluents. As these names were erroneously identified as Spanish in origin, and as such adopted without ques- tion, much confusion and many inaccuracies have arisen in recent historical works.
Mr. Hewitt continued the collection and elaboration of linguistic data for the sketch of Iroquois grammar as exemplified in the Onondaga and the Mohawk, with parallel illustrative examples from the Seneca, Cayuga, and Tuscarora. He also partially rewrote the articles “Seneca” and ‘ Sauk” for the Hand- book of American Indians, and endeavored, so far as was feasible, to incorporate in the remaining galley proofs of this work the results of his later researches. Mr. Hewitt was also called on to prepare data of an ethnologic nature for official correspondence.
At the beginning of the year Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, ethnologist, was in the field, having just completed the excavation and repair of the cliff ruin known as the ‘‘ Spruce-tree House,” in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. Before the close of July he returned to Washington and commenced the preparation of a report on this work, and undertook to complete the reports of unfinished researches of previous years. During his stay in Washington his services were enlisted in the building of a number of large models of the ruins for the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific Exposition at Seattle and in supervising the painting of pano- ramic views of the Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park for the same purpose.
In June Doctor Fewkes again took up his work among the Mesa Verde ruins, and by the close of the year had made excellent progress in uncovering and | reenforcing the crumbling walls of Cliff Palace, the greatest of the ancient ruins of its kind-in the arid country.
The funds for the actual work of excavation and repair of these ruins were furnished by the Department of the Interior, which has control of the park. Being the essential feature of the park, it is most fortunate that these impor- tant and interesting ruins are now receiving adequate care and protection,
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since in recent years the progress of destructive agencies, especially the activi- ties of relic hunters, has been very rapid.
SPECIAL RESEARCHES.
As in former years, a number of collaborators were engaged in conducting researches of a special nature in various fields. Dr. Franz Boas, honorary philologist of the bureau, continued his labors on the Handbook of Languages, assisted by a number of students. Prominent among these is Dr. Leo J. Frachtenberg, who at the close of the year was engaged in studying the lan- guage of the Siletz tribe on its reservation in Oregon. Volume I of the Hand- book of Languages is now in press, and the work of Doctor Boas for the year included the proof reading of this volume as well as the preparation of the text of Volume II.
Miss Frances Densmore continued her researches relating to the music of the Chippewa, and a paper dealing with this subject was submitted for pub- lication as Bulletin 45. A number of valuable phonographic records were obtained.
Mr. J. P. Dunn, who was assigned the linguistic work among the western Algonquian tribes left unfinished by the late Doctor Gatschet, continued the study of the Miami language among tribal remnants in Indiana and Oklahoma, and submitted a number of preliminary papers.
COLLECTIONS.
The collections acquired by the bureau and transferred to the National Mu- seum during the year comprise fifteen accessions, the more important being as follows:
Collection of West Indian antiquities, purchased from C. W. Branch, St.
. Vincent, British West Indies.
Indian relics from Moosehead Lake, Maine, presented by Mr. J. D. McGuire.
Cache of flaked stone objects from Moosehead Lake, Maine, purchased from T. Wilson.
Collection of bones, pottery fragments, etc., obtained by Mr. J. D. McGuire and Dr. AleS Hrdlicka at Piscataway, Md.
“ Archeological objects collected by Dr. J. W. Fewkes, ethnologist, during the excavation and repair of Spruce-tree House in the Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
Pottery fragments from Coden, Ala.
Stone implements from Tiahuanaco, Bolivia, and an earthenware vessel from Nazco, Peru, collected by Mr. W. H. Holmes.
Fragments of earthenware of the variety known as “salt vessels,’ from the vicinity of Shawneetown, I1l., presented by Mr. R. Moore, of Equality, I11.
Ethnologica of the Chitimacha Indians, collected by Dr. John R. Swanton.
PUBLICATIONS.
The editorial work remained in charge of Mr. J. G. Gurley, who for a short period had the assistance of Mr. Stanley Searles.
Work on the publications of the bureau during the fiscal year may be briefly summarized as follows: The proof reading of the Twenty-sixth Annual Report and of Bulletin 34 was completed, and these publications were issued. The Twenty-seventh Annual Report and Bulletins 39, 41, 42, 48, 46, and 47 were prepared for and submitted to the Government Printing Office. Of these at the close of the year Bulletin 42 was issued, while Bulletins 39 and 41, also Bulletin 38 (the proof reading of which occupied much time during the year), were substantially ready for the bindery. The Twenty-seventh Annual and Bul- letin 48 were in galley form, and considerable progress had been made in the
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composition of Bulletins 46 and 47. The preparation of nearly all the manu- script of Bulletin 40, Part I, was finished, and most of the volume was in type.
At the close of the year manuscripts duly approved for publication as bu- reau bulletins were on hand, as follows: :
Bulletin 37 (partially edited). Antiquities of central and southeastern Mis- souri, by Gerard Fowke.
Bulletin 44 (partially edited). Linguistic families of Mexico and Central America, by Cyrus Thomas, assisted by John R. Swanton.
Bulletin 45. Chippewa music, by Frances Densmore.
The distribution of publications continued as in former years. The Twenty- sixth Annual Report was issued in July, and Bulletin 84 in December. During the year 1,676 copies each of the Twenty-sixth Annual Report and Bulletin 34 were sent to regular recipients, and 3,000 volumes and pamphlets were trans- mitted in response to special requests, presented largely by Members of Con- gress. The number of requests for the bureau’s publications greatly exceeded those received during any previous year.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
The preparation of illustrations continued in charge of Mr. De Lancey Gill, with Mr. Henry Walther as assistant. Illustrative material for six bulletins and one annual report was completed during the year; of this material 498 illustrations were photographic prints and 77 were drawings. Proofs of the illustrations of three bulletins were examined and approved. Portrait nega- tives of 22 visiting Indian delegations to the number of 196 were made. The total output of the photographic laboratory was as follows: New negatives, 473; films exposed in the field and developed in the office, 454; photographic prints, 3,498.
LIBRARY.
The library continued in charge of Miss Ella Leary, librarian. During the year 1,459 volumes and about 700 pamphlets were received and catalogued, and about 2,000 serials, chiefly the publications of learned societies, were received and recorded. As the law now permits the binding of miscellaneous publica- tions belonging to the library at the expense of the allotment for general print- ing and binding, it was found possible to bind a much larger number of vol-, umes than in previous years, and thus to save many valuable works that were threatened with destruction. During the year 2,194 volumes were sent to the bindery. and of these all but about 500 had been received before the close of the fiscal year. Im addition to the use of its own library, which is becoming more and more valuable through exchange and by limited purchase, it was found necessary to draw on the Library of Congress for the loan of 518 vol- umes. The library of the bureau now contains 15,511 volumes, about 11,000 pamphlets, and several thousand unbound periodicals.
LINGUISTIC MANUSCRIPTS. i.
Mr. J. B. Clayton served as custodian of manuscripts. The bureau now pos- sesses 1,678 manuscripts, mostly linguistic, 19 having been added during the year, mainly by purchase. All of these are of great value, and the number in- cludes four by Miss Frances Densmore on Chippewa music, four by Mr. J. P. Dunn on Miami and Peoria linguistics, one each by Miss Alice C. Fletcher on the Omaha Indians, Mr. D. I. Bushnell on the Choctaw Indians of Louisiana, and Mr. Paul Radin on the Winnebago Indians. The card catalogue of manu- scripts is complete to date.
Respectfully submitted.
W. H. Hoitmgs, Chief.
Dr. CHARLES D. WALcorT,
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
APPENDIX III.
REPORT ON THE INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGHS.
Sra: I have the honor to submit a report on the operations of the Interna- tional Wxchange Service during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909.
The most noteworthy event in connection with the service during the year was the passage of the following resolution :
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of more fully carrying into effect the provisions of the convention concluded at Brussels on March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and proclaimed by the President on January fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, the Public Priuter is hereby authorized and directed to supply to the Library of Congress such number as may be required, not exceeding one hundred copies, of the daily issue of the Congressional Record for distribution, through the Smithsonian Institution, to the legislative chambers of such foreign governments as may agree to send to the United States current copies of their parliamentary record or like publica- tion, such documents, when received, to be deposited in the Library of Con- gress. (Approved March 4, 1909.)
Though the Smithsonian Institution has endeayored on previous occasions to have the Congress set aside a number of copies of the daily Congressional Record for exchange with foreign governments, it has only now been possible to have the matter favorably acted upon—twenty years having elapsed since the rati- fication by this Government of the Brussels convention for the immediate ex- change of the official journal.
_ Upon the passage of the. above resolution, the Congressional Record was at once sent to the following countries, the parliaments of which already transmit their official journal to the Library of Congress or have agreed to do so:
Australia. Greece. | Portugal. Austria. Guatemala. | Roumania. Belgium. Honduras. | Russia. Brazil. | Hungary. Servia. Canada. Italy. | Spain. Cuba. New South Wales. | Switzerland. France. Prussia. | Uruguay.
The subject has been brought to the attention of other countries, and it is anticipated that during the coming year this proposed exchange, which is of so much importance to the members of the various national legislatures, will be entered into with a number of additional governments. It should be stated, in this connection, that the exchange here alluded to is separate and distinct from the exchange of official documents which has existed between the United States and other countries for a number of years. It is interparliamentary, and pro- vides for the immediate transmission, direct by mail, of the official journal as soon as published.
That the Smithsonian system of exchanges is appreciated by governmental and scientific establishments and men of learning throughout the world is indi-
cated by the large number of packages intrusted to its care for distribution.
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During the past year 228,875 packages were handled, being an increase over the number for the preceding year of 25,777-—the largest annual increase in the history of the service. The total weight of these packages was 476,169 pounds, a gain of 40,884 pounds.
The handling and recording of these parcels has taxed to the utmost the limited force engaged in conducting the service, and it has only been possible to keep abreast of the work by the diligent application of each employee.
The appropriation by Congress for the support of the service during 1909 was $32,200 (the same amount as was granted for the preceding year), and the sum collected on account of repayments was $3,777.33, making the total avail- able resources for carrying on the system of international exchanges $35,977.33.
In the last report it was stated that the bureau had entered upon an active and definite campaign to secure reciprocal returns from abroad for the ex- changes sent by this Government and its departments and bureaus. Though this work has added greatly to the correspondence of the office, it has been pursued with unabated vigor during the past year, and the results have been more than satisfactory. In some cases the returns have exceeded all expecta- tions, hundreds of volumes having been received.
While the Japanese department of foreign affairs at Tokyo has, for a number of years, been good enough to distribute exchanges sent in its care for corre- spondents in Japan, the department has only recently signified its willingness to act in the full capacity of a bureau of exchanges—forwarding to the Smith- sonian Institution consignments for distribution in the United States, as well as transmitting to their addresses in Japan exchanges sent in its care.
Reference was made in the last report to the fact that the Kingdom of Servia, which was one of the signatories to the Brussels convention of 1886, had not established a bureau of exchanges and that the good offices of the Department of State had been solicited in bringing the matter to the attention of the Servian officials. I am gratified to state that these efforts have resulted in the establishment of a bureau under the department of foreign affairs at Belgrade. Packages received for Servia in the future will therefore be sent to that department for distribution instead of being forwarded through the Smith- sonian agent in Germany, as formerly. In the communication from Servia regarding this subject, it is stated that copies of all of the official, scientific, and literary publications will henceforth be forwarded to the United States, and a request is made for similar documents of this Government. Servia has accordingly been added to the list of those countries receiving full sets of official publications, the first shipment, consisting of 20 cases containing a collection of documents published since 1901, having been made on June 22, 1909.
In response to a request forwarded to the Library of Congress through the Department of State, Alsace-Lorraine was added to the list of foreign coun- tries receiving partial sets of official documents of the United States. The first shipment, composed of 6 cases, was made under date of April 29, 1909.
Just before the close of the year a communication was received from the director of the Biblioteca Nacional at Buenos Aires, stating that by decree of his Government the Argentine bureau of exchanges had been withdrawn from the national library and connected with the comisiOn protectora de bibliotecas populares, Buenos Aires, which is under the direction of the department of public instruction. Consignments intended for that country will therefore be forwarded to the commission in the future. The Institution desires to record here its grateful acknowledgements for the services rendered in the past by the national library in the distribution of exchanges in the Argentine Republic.
In spite of the extra efforts put forth by this bureau in making shipments to. all countries at least once a month—in some instances, two, three, and even
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four times a month—complaints regarding delay in the delivery of packages to addresses in other countries have been received by the Institution. These de- lays, aS a rule, occur in the various foreign exchange bureaus after consign- ments have passed beyond the control of the Institution. An improvement in the service in this respect can therefore be brought about only by the societies and individuals in other countries themselves taking the matter up directly with their own governments. Whenever such complaints have been received this course has been suggested.
So far as reported to this office, the service has not suffered the loss of any of its consignments during the past year. When it is considered that nearly 2.000 boxes were shipped to every quarter of the globe, this statement is worthy of note.
INTERCHANGE OF PUBLICATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER COUNTRIDS.
The statement which follows shows in detail the number of packages re- ceived for transmission through the International Exchange Service during the year ending June 30, 1909:
Packages. Packages. Country. Country. — For. From. || For. From.
Ea if So SWUSee eee | ee decane zt eiceil 2 ME JAISGIAG) ado See CECA Eeee 146 (3 || iDOmMIMCR) socks ococrcoebScees | AS eee oat NTIS OlAieee eee ei esses a5 OF Peadedesees IDNoOlN (CHDWENTE), « eococsenccoss Soueer cere PAUL OUT CU Meet eyes, ats feist tne aie AGH eee HI CUAC ORR seen ae eer eee ee 247 31 MTD, 2 Doe See eee eaeEoe DOK Rare ae iI LSPA ON Beater es eats emer es a ae. 369 282 (MASI TITITEh. 5 cCe So eee ae BoeE 3, 378 464 || Falkland Islands.......---..-. Ot Paeee se eice Austria-Hungary......-...-- 8, 003 Pe) \ nhpISeiNCeA es saseos aeceose Ouest anes eters AWAOHOS. 55: oss0anosecdsdecee= Bh igensdesqos ! FAN CeWre Seer a he et ot 13, 074 | 5, 969 1a eRRNG) So ee AC ese ee eae BB reat ere || French Cochin China....... 41 7
PapaTbadoessaes. -2422..5.252- TOO cesses i Hireneh Guiamaeeessss5-- 22. | Online eerie. Bina eee ns eh ec 4 LN eteeistete ts || German Hast Africa......... OP a ie ne leGliSibhn os OSes ce eee eEeeone 4, 585 2, 758 || Germany iiceee eee ee ee | 24,821 8, 763 BOK MMU G AS ieee aces ac.ssins ec Oh eterere a ctarao ia Gillomallitams se. ei eieeraete teeta | 4 2, PBT GOMe eee eee eleci-/os sess 55 Dh ere eisin aera Goldi@oastatecssesscetee see TI ete eee oe
' Bismarck Archipelago ..-.-..-. a eesetae Grenad deren ce es -iacieae tence to | eee cee eee Talia sabe ne ae ee teen TSO | eee Great Britain and Ireland ..| 22, 808 8, 427 ES OUMCOM t= sea eis sexe 2-2 eset GR eee Preltecr: INGE CCCs hoe alanaesemeee eles e | 1,548 2 1 SETA ZAll eye sepals aro Sse 8 aie ase 2,713 486 || Greenland...........---.;--- Rotel MES ean British - America. .:-=-.5-2--- _ 7,306 446 || Guadeloupe ..--...--- rset Dai pies ey IBTIbish BUT. ..2..--5..-2.- 47 Pall (Gave Gh gaseorssosseasbewee | BBaM pe sea British Central Africa-...... LF eee ts ees Hab Witces eeu acareemoccactiae | TQ seacoast British East Africa .........- Ao Parise es Sic Hawaiian Islands ...-....-.- | AGS | tae Senco British Guiana..........-.-.- SH |leseocence eELOU GUNES ere aes esis ee SUS H ee ceee ee British Honduras.....-.-..-- ; Ghaleee eens | Hongkong st. S225 nest 188 i Mees cs seer eter 215 {510 || Sheelanid. i tee gee | 60 37 Canary Islands.........--.--- Gs cs wee {| PIN 1a oreo op cts Semeisiaieirece ai | 2,710 176 Cape Colony. ..-22-).--!.2-%- a 1, 663 22 | ATA; SS RHEE pet bat ites ate cia motace, oe 7, 458 1, 352 Cape Verde Islands........-- lao uses H eeieura sul Gee see aes se oe 261 68 Wewlonwee es etd asses ce sae DAS ESA A te asa PVE of To Vaeeee mites ol pacer ohn, APN | 8,244 1, 646 CEG 5 Se Fe ae 2,461 RESON SUVA nate cite Seale se meets la aks 220 128 (CLIT) ed SG 6 Siac cre eee aa 1, 088 65 || Kongo Free State....--..---- Dil vaste eee Moora pie 222. Secs! peels eiapis.ce 1, 348 LHR IKOReai sere es dl tgs -2 28 G6; eek oat tee WOSTAMRACH Ae Ss Zisieepe tiemjapere eee 1, 672 All AP OSS ae eppetiet=orcizi siemens Diets ee aioe (CUBR) Soe fe SANE ee Oe eee 1, 544 DGnl (Mile deaep esos te cece eee 527 u (CHOEYOE(0) Joe eee eerie TAO tart we Lourengo Marquez........-- AZO | sercseee aoe Wy GUS eae sete cles == sisiae (ai AE ae | Beeston wm Bees eeceseoo. 84 41 Menmiankeeeec. +5252: Nltecns 2, 022 HOLS a | MNELCAO -astiesseeeee cereale se NE icles SR
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Country.
Madagascar Madeira Malaya Mulitaeeeecase fists coupons Wilchandable qt to sescemace asses IManiInithus! ses ccc eee ae MNS GNG 0 eae ae sconcosssa0n6 | Montenegro Montserrat
MOnLoCGON. soeee cose eee osc
Netherlamdss2e nc aae-osceeeee IN GVIS oo Ms seas ee eee ee Newfoundland Neweblebridesse-. sence eee | New South Wales...........- WewrZenlandoe sss. eee)
INI CATARINA astro ee eee Norfolk Islands i sscn=- osec5, | NORWAY Ass oe cnc seee ee eee Orange River Colony.....-... Pam amas: 27 cttecca wen cence PaATACUay a -casee seer ener ee Persia se tacoe reer ce eee nee Philippine Islands .........- IPOTLOURICO soe ene semen cet oe Portugal 22S sas cnk Sete: Portuguese West Africa | Queenslandlen.ceeeeees nee ee Reunions sie co eeece eee
Sle CROURr Bact reece eee St. Helena
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Packages. Country. = For From. SUK GIS 25.3. oie ee eee eee a (Re pe SUsLUCi ne sonar eee oee eee 17 Al Pep = St Martin hose shee secereeee LD Sa ceemeee St. Pierre and Miquelon...-.. 14s co ewes St--Lhomas\-- eee ee eee 17 iecseee tae St. Vinentiezccaes ene secre ANS. Sosa il Sallvelon.-y. -h het Vereen aueane 186 83 Samoee. Sok 2 ee at ee 17 |\ches see ee || Santo Domingos... -seseee see Bl Re se Sara wak= aecctossc ce oreo sees | 3S) Aeeiepeeee Seneral 2.) 2h. CMeeees (il dee ose. Bervilas sc 2 eee cae saince eee 735 1 SIPS Ree aa one eee 1,193 76 Sierra eoneele.)---cme cess 24 U8 peeom ae Socretylslandsi-s- cesses 20:2 be ciesete South Australia .......-.---- 1,605 439 Sppaulnsttes see ee eee ees | 2,599 185 || Straits Settlements.:.......- 224 4 LS UGS See oer ace hoe a ee 34 1 || OUMLSUEE A. Seen noe ane sree eete 6 | -wccteeceee Swedentsetsioe.- ce aoe 8,366 50 Switzerland --e--- 6 oe ereee 4, 348 1,540 DSS Gy Saree oer mee 1,321 11 TAH SV cs soe eas a 1,411 10 Timid ndreeses. phe eee eee 127.) 2.2 eee ee [STS Sas hese 2 che a 39 8 Munkey ocean ~=Sh sess 1,,5564)|. 22sec TurksiTslanitse. -c. ae= eaeere 20) | ene UmitediStatese. 2-2 osess eee 52, 524 180, 292 AO BAD SWE ae oe tat ee Seo ae | 1, 965 867 Venezuelaxis.a-c-hons cee | 1, 289 2- Victotia:. 2224 eee | 3,829 208 Western Australia..........-. 1, 463 551 TANZIDAT ot eee etc e ae eee ile es ya pose Total’. so coos secon | 228,875 | 228, 875 |
During the year there were sent abroad 1,963 boxes (an increase over 1908 of 54 boxes), of which 236 contained complete sets of United States Government documents for authorized depositories and 1,727 were filled with departmental and other publications for depositories of partial sets and for distribution to miscellaneous correspondents.
EXCHANGH OF GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS.
The number of packages sent abroad through the International Exchange Service by United States Government establishments during the year was 122,340, an increase over the number forwarded during the preceding twelve months of 19,646; while 20,216 packages were received in exchange, an increase of 3,363. This disparity between the number of packages received and those sent may be accounted for largely by the fact that many returns for the publi- cations forwarded abroad are not made through the exchange service, but are
sent to their destinations direct by mail.
This difference is further due to the
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practice of sending consignments to the Library of Congress intact, in many eases a whole box of publications being entered on the records of this office as one package.
FORHIGN DEPOSITORINS OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS.
In accordance with treaty stipulations and under the authority of the con- gressional resolutions of March 2, 1867, and March 2, 1901, setting apart a cer- tain number of documents for exchange with foreign countries, there are now sent regularly to depositories abroad 55 full sets of United States official pub- lications and 33 partial sets—Servia having been added during the year to the list of countries receiving full sets and Alsace-Lorraine to the list of those receiving partial sets, the details concerning which will be found above. The recipients of full and partial sets are as follows:
DEPOSITORIES OF FULL SETS.
Argentina: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Buenos Aires.
Argentina: Biblioteca de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
Australia: Library of the Commonwealth Parliament, Melbourne.
Austria: K. K. Statistische Central-Commission, Vienna.
Baden: Universitits-Bibliothek, Freiburg.
Bavaria: Konigliche Hof- und Staats-Bibliothek, Munich.
Belgium: Bibliothéque Royale, Brussels.
Brazil: Bibliotheca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro.
Canada: Parliamentary Library, Ottawa.
Cape Colony: Government Stationery Department, Cape Town.
Chile: Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional, Santiago.
China: American-Chinese Publication Exchange Department, Shanghai Bureau of Foreign Affairs, Shanghai.
Colombia: Biblioteca Nacional, Bogota.
Costa Rica: Oficina de Depésito y Canje de Publicaciones, San José.
Cuba: Department of State, Habana.
Denmark: Kongelige Bibliotheket, Copenhagen.
England: British Museum, London.
England: London School of Economics and Political Science, London.
France: Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris.
France: Préfecture de la Seine, Paris.
Germany: Deutsche Reichstags-Bibliothek, Berlin.
Greece: Bibliothéque Nationale, Athens.
Haiti: Secrétairerie d’Etat des Relations Extérieures, Port au Prince.
Hungary: Hungarian House of Delegates, Budapest.
India: Home Department, Government of India, Calcutta.
_ Ireland: National Library of Ireland, Dublin.
Italy: Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Hmanuele, Rome.
Japan: Department of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo.
Manitoba: Provincial Library, Winnipeg.
Mexico: Instituto Bibliogrifico, Biblioteca Nacional, Mexico.
Netherlands: Library of the States General, The Hague.
New South Wales: Board for International Exchanges, Sydney.
New Zealand: General Assembly Library, Wellington.
Norway: Storthingets Bibliothek, Christiania.
Ontario: Legislative Library, Toronto.
Peru: Biblioteca Nacional, Lima.
Portugal: Bibliotheca Nacional, Lisbon.
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Prussia: K6nigliche Bibliothek, Berlin.
Quebec: Legislative Library, Quebec.
Queensland: Parliamentary Library, Brisbane.
Russia: Imperial Public Library, St. Petersburg.
Saxony: K6nigliche Oeffentliche Bibliothek, Dresden.
Servia: Ministére des Affaires Etrangéres, Belgrade.
South Australia: Parliamentary Library, Adelaide.
Spain: Deposito de Libros, Cambio Internacional y Biblioteca General del Ministerio de Instruccién Ptblica y Bellas Artes, Madrid.
Sweden: Kungliga Biblioteket, Stockholm.
Switzerland: Bibliothéque Fédérale, Berne.
Tasmania: Parliamentary Library, Hobart.
Transvaal: Government Library, Pretoria.
Turkey: Department of Public Instruction, Constantinople.
Uruguay: Oficina de Depésito, Reparto y Canje Internacional de Publicaciones, Montevideo.
Venezuela: Biblioteca Nacional, Caracas.
Victoria: Public Library, Melbourne.
Western Australia: Public Library. of Western Australia, Perth.
Wiirttemberg: K6nigliche Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart.
DEPOSITORIES OF PARTIAL SBTS. ~
Alberta: Legislative Library, Edmonton.
Alsace-Lorraine: K. Ministerium fiir Elsass-Lothringen, Strassburg.
Bolivia: Ministerio de Colonizacién y Agricultura, La Paz.
British Columbia: Legislative Library, Victoria.
Bremen: Kommission fiir Reichs- und Auswiirtige Angelegenheiten.
Bulgaria: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sofia.
Ceylon: United States Consul, Colombo.
Ecuador: Biblioteca Nacional, Quito.
Egypt: Bibliothéque Khédiviale, Cairo.
Guatemala: Secretary of the Government, Guatemala.
Hamburg: Senatskommission fiir die Reichs- und Auswirtigen Angelegenheiten.
Hesse: Grossherzogliche Hof-Bibliothek, Darmstadt.
Honduras: Secretary of the Government, Tegucigalpa.
Jamaica: Colonial Secretary, Kingston.
Liberia: Department of State, Monrovia.
Lourenco Marquez: Government Library, Lourengo Marquez.
Malta: Lieutenant-Governor, Valetta.
Montenegro: Ministére Princier des Affaires Dtrangéres, Cetinje.
Natal: Colonial Governor, Pietermaritzburg.
Newfoundland: Colonial Secretary, St. John.
New Brunswick: Legislative Library, St. John.
Nicaragua: Superintendente de Archivos Nacionales, Managua.
Northwest Territories: Government Library, Regina.
Nova Scotia: Legislative Library, Halifax.
Orange River Colony: Government Library, Bloemfontein,
Panama: Secretaria de Relaciones Hxteriores, Panama.
Prince Edward Island: Legislative Library, Charlottetown.
Paraguay: Oficina General de Informaciones y Canjes y Commisaria General de Inmigracion, Asuncion.
Roumania: Academia Romana, Bucarest.
Salvador: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, San Salvador.
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Straits Settlements: Colonial Secretary, Singapore. Siam: Department of Foreign Affairs, Bangkok. Vienna: Biirgermeister der Haupt- und Residenz-Stadt.
CORRESPONDENTS.
The record of exchange correspondents at the close of the year contained 62,680 addresses, being an increase of 2,507 over the preceding year. A table showing the number of correspondents in each country at the close of 1907 will be found in the report for that year.
LIST OF BUREAUS OR AGENCIDS THROUGH WHICH EXCHANGES ARD TRANSMITTSD. '
Following is a list of bureaus or agencies abroad through which the distribu- tion of exchanges is effected. Those in the larger and many in the smaller countries forward to the Smithsonian Institution in return contributions for distribution in the United States:
Algeria, via France. Angola, via Portugal. Argentina: Presidente de la Comisién Protectora de Bibliotecas Populares,
Ministerio de Instruccién Ptiblica, Buenos Aires.
Austria: K. K. Statistische Central-Commission, Vienna.
Azores, via Portugal.
Barbados: Imperial Department of Agriculture, Bridgetown.
Belgium: Service Belge des Wchanges Internationaux, Brussels.
Bermuda. (Sent by mail.)
Bolivia: Oficina Nacional de Inmigraci6n, Estadistica y Propaganda Geografica,
La Paz.
Brazil: Servico de Permutacdes Internacionaes, Bibliotheca Nacional, Rio de
Janeiro.
British Colonies: Crown Agents for the Colonies, London.®
British Guiana: Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society, Georgetown. British Honduras: Colonial Secretary, Belize.
Bulgaria: Institutions et Bibliothéque Scientifiques de S. A. R. le Prince de
Bulgarie, Sofia.
Canada. (Sent by mail.)
Canary Islands, via Spain.
Cape Colony: Government Stationery Department, Cape Town.
Chile: Servicio de Canjes Internacionales, Biblioteca Nacional, Santiago. China: Zi-ka-wei Observatory, Shanghai.
Colombia: Oficina de Canjes Internacionales y Reparto, Biblioteca Nacional,
Bogota.
Costa Rica: Oficina de Depésito y Canje de Publicaciones, San José. Cuba. (Sent by mail.)
Denmark: Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Copenhagen. Dutch Guiana: Surinaamsche Koloniale Bibliotheek, Paramaribo. Ecuador: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Quito.
Egypt: Director-General, Survey Department, Giza (Mudiria). France: Service Francais des Kehanges Internationaux, Paris. Friendly Islands. (Sent by mail.)
Germany: Karl W. Hiersemann, Konigsstrasse 29, Leipzig.
@This method is employed for communicating with several of the British eolonies with which no medium is available for forwarding exchanges direct.
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Great Britain and Ireland: Messrs.. William Wesley & Son, 28 Essex street, Strand, London.
Greece: Bibliothéque Nationale, Athens.
Greenland, via Denmark.
Guadeloupe, via France.
Guatemala: Instituto Nacional de Guatemala, Guatemala.
Guinea, via Portugal.
Haiti: Secrétaire d’Etat des Relations Extérieures, Port au Prince.
Honduras: Biblioteca Nacional, Tegucigalpa.
Hungary: Dr. Julius Pikler, Municipal Office of Statistics, City Hall, Budapest.
“Iceland, via Denmark.
India: India Store Department, India Office, London.
Italy: Ufficio degli Scambi Internazionali, Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Hman- uele, Rome.
Jamaica: Institute of Jamaica, Kingston.
Japan: Department of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo.
Java, via Netherlands.
Korea. (Shipments temporarily suspended.)
Liberia: Department of State, Monrovia.
Lourencgo Marquez: Government Library, Lourenco Marquez.
Luxemburg, via Germany.
Madagascar, via France.
Madeira, via Portugal.
Mexico. (Sent by mail.)
Montenegro: Ministére Princier des Affaires Etrangéres, Cetinje.
Mozambique, via Portugal.
Natal: Agent-General for Natal, London.
Netherlands: Bureau Scientifique Central Néerlandais, Bibliothéque de VUni- versité, Leyden.
Newfoundland. (Sent by mail.)
New Guinea, via Netherlands.
New Hebrides. (Sent by mail.)
New South Wales: Board for International Exchanges, Public Library, Sydney.
New Zealand: Dominion Museum, Wellington.
Nicaragua: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Managua.
Norway: Kongelige Norske Frederiks Universitet Bibliotheket, Christiania.
Paraguay: Ministerio de Relaciones.Exteriores, Asuncion. :
Persia: Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, New York City.
Peru: Oficina de Reparto, Depdsito y Canje Internacional de Publicaciones, Ministerio de Fomento, Lima.
Portugal: Servico de Permutacdes Internacionaes, Bibliotheca Nacional, Lisbon.
Queensland: Board of Exchanges, Brisbane.
Roumania, via Germany.
Russia: Commission Russe des Echanges Internationaux, Bibliothéque Im- périale Publique, St. Petersburg.
Saint Christopher. (Sent by mail.)
Salvador: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, San Salvador.
Santo Domingo. (Sent by mail.)
Servia: Department of Foreign Affairs, Belgrade.
Siam: Department of Foreign Affairs, Bangkok.
South Australia: Public Library of South Australia, Adelaide.
Spain: Deposito de Libros, Cambio Internacional y Biblioteca General del Min- isterio de Instruccion Ptblica y Bellas Artes, Madrid.
Sumatra, via Netherlands.
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Sweden: Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps Akademien, Stockholm. Switzerland: Service des Echanges Internationaux, Bibliothéque Fédérale Cen- trale, Bern. Syria: Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, New York. Tasmania: Royal Society of Tasmania, Hobart. Transvaal: Government Library, Pretoria. Trinidad: Victoria Institute, Port of Spain. Tunis, via France. Turkey: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Boston. Uruguay: Oficina de Deposito, Reparto y Canje Internacional, Montevideo. Venezuela: Biblioteca Nacional, Caracas. Victoria: Public Library of Victoria, Melbourne. Western Australia: Public Library of Western Australia, Perth. Zanzibar. (Sent by mail.) Dr. Cyrus Adler resigned his position as assistant Secretary in charge of library and exchanges on September 30, 1908. Respectfully submitted. FE. V. Brerey, Chief Clerk, International Hachange Service. Dr. CHARLES D. WALCOTT, Secretary of the Snvithsonian Institution.
APPENDIX IV. REPORT ON THE NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK.
Str: I have the honor to submit the following report on the condition and operations of the National Zoological Park for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909.
RESOURCES.
The entire support of the park was provided for by an item in the sundry civil act approved May 27, 1908, appropriating $95,000 for general purposes, includ- ing the purchase, transportation, care and maintenance of animals; the care and improvement of grounds; the construction and repair of all buildings, inclosures, roads, walks, and bridges. A sum of equal amount has been appropriated annually for several years past. The considerable increase in the prices of the necessary provisions and labor has made it increasingly difficult to do any- thing toward developing the park to the standard that such institutions usually attain at the capitals of great nations. The expenses of maintenance alone amounted to about $85,000, so it will be seen that there was but little margin left for additional works.
It should be remembered that at the inception of the park the funds provided for buildings and improvements were entirely inadequate for its proper equip- ment and that consequently the management was forced to construct cheap, temporary shelters, roads, walks, and inclosures. These have now arrived at about their limit of usefulness and do not admit of further economical repair. It is not for the interest of the Government to continue to erect structures of this class, and it would certainly be advantageous to have sufficient appropriations to replace them with satisfactory permanent buildings.
BUILDINGS AND INCLOSURES.
The principal improvements made during the year were the completion of a series of bear yards and the construction of a series of 10 new yards for wolves and foxes.
Bear yards.—Six yards of the series had been built up to the beginning of the year. During 1908-9 the terminal yard, 42 feet wide and 26 feet deep, at the east end of the series, was built, and the north end of the series was com- pleted by the construction of three yards from 32 to 36 feet deep and 32, 24, and 40 feet wide, respectively. All of the yards have floors of rock and con- crete except the large one at the north end, where most of the area has been left in the original hard clay over which is spread a thick layer of sand. A concrete walk 12 feet wide was constructed in front of all the new yards, and a trellis of steel bars was built over the walk and in front of the cages, over which vines will be trained, to afford shelter until trees are large enough to give sufficient shade. The cost of the work on the bear yards during the year was about $6,000. The steep bank adjoining the yards was graded and a macadam walk with stone steps was built to furnish a convenient approach.
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The completion of the series of yards made it possible to transfer all of the bears from the temporary wooden cages that they have been occupying to their permanent quarters. The cages were then removed, and the area which they had occupied was graded and planted.
Wolf and fox yards.—Since the occupation of the park the wolves and foxes have been kept in temporary yards near the lion house. This has been unsatis- factory in several respects, the yards being of an irregular and unsightly character, rather obtrusive, and not as secure as desirable. A better site for them was selected at the foot of the steep acclivity, where the stream from the beaver valley empties into Rock Creek. There were constructed here a series
‘of ten yards having a tota! frontage of 230 feet, with a depth varying from
16 to 386 feet. The fence was constructed of heavy wire netting with square mesh, on steel posts, and has a height of 6 feet 6 inches. A retiring den for each yard was excavated in the hill at the rear of the cages and arranged with a door outside the inclosure for the keeper’s use. These cages, as well as the bear yards, were completed and occupied in the late autumn of 1908.
An entirely pleasant feature of this site is its secluded, woodland character, enhanced by the little stream flowing down over rocks to the creek. Consider- able planting was done here, using the material indigenous to the neighborhood in order to retain as far as possible the original character of the forest.
The cost of this series of yards was about $2,600.
ROADS AND WALKS.
Lack of funds prevented the continued prosecution of the repair of roads and walks in the park, only such work being done as was absolutely necessary for the public safety. The Adams Mill road and part of the road along the
_banks of the creek were treated with a coal-tar product known as “ terracolio,”
to obtain freedom from dust and prevent the washing of the roadbed during heavy rains. This was fairly successful. Some of the walks were treated with another coal-tar preparation known as “tarvia.” ‘This, too, proved an excellent preventive of dust and abrasion.
The shaded walk and stairway from the Adams Mill entrance to the lower levels of the park was completed and a small rest house and shelter built at the upper end. It is believed that this walk can be made one of the most attractive features of the park. In spite of the careful watch, some difficulty is experienced in preventing the uprooting and carrying away by visitors of the ferns and other specimens that have been planted in profusion along its sides. The amount expended on the walk during the present year was about $700, while the rustic shelter, 20 by 25 feet, cost approximately $400.
ACCESSIONS AND LOSSES.
Gifts included 5 chamois from Bernese Oberland, received through the De- partment of the Interior from the Swiss Government as a gift to the United States Government; 3 young Alaskan brown bears from Mr. George Mixter, 2d, of Boston, Mass.; 3 Barbados woolless sheep, from the United States Department of Agriculture; a large grizzly bear and female black bear with 2 cubs were received from Lieut. Gen. S. B. M. Young, superintendent Yellowstone National
‘Park; also 2 mule deer and 2 prong-horn antelopes from Maj. H. C Benson, who
succeeded General Young at the Yellowstone Park. ‘Ten beavers were also obtained in the Yellowstone Park through the cooperation of General Young.
A lioness, a pair of Sarus cranes, 2 European flamingoes, and a fishing cat were received in exchange for surplus animals.
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Purchases included a pair of Rocky Mountain sheep, an Arabian camel, a reindeer from Alaska, a cassowary, 2 South American condors, 2 jabirus, ete.
Births numbered 110, and included a Brazilian tapir, 3 American bison, a yak, 4 tigers, 2 black bears, a llama, 6 Barbary sheep, 17 deer of 6 species, kangaroos, armadillos, etc., also various birds.
The deaths included the Philippine water buffalo, which died from peri- tonitis resulting from the bursting of an abscess of the rumen; a young orang, which died from leukemia; and a leopard, which, also, died from peritonitis. A Rocky Mountain goat, which was deposited in the park, died thirty-seven days after its receipt, from tuberculosis, which evidently had been contracted while it was kept in confinement near the place of capture in British Columbia. An European flamingo, a crowned pigeon, and several other birds died from aspergillosis, and five storks from cercomonad roup.
One hundred and thirty-eight autopsies were made by the pathologists of the Bureau of Animal Industry and two by the Laboratory of Hygiene, which Zave the following results: ‘
Cause of death, 1908-9.
Pneumonia. 222. a eee 20 | Etydrophilosis\=-= =>. 2 aa if) PCL CULOS 1S =e ee ee ee 16 | Subcutaneous acariasis___________ at Pulmonary congestion_____------- 8.) Uncinariasis:-=_-=-_ eee 2 ASCE OUOSI SS ee ee 6’ | Proteus” bacillosis ——— eee 3 Enteritis (and gastro-enteritis)_.__ 20 | Hchinococcosis___________________ nl Nephritis ==" 222 Jo == 6 | (Porocephalus; infestation=====aee 2 INGCCrOSIS Of liver: 22. === =a 2 | Rabies. 22 eee 3 Hepatitis. 2222s. beacet ese eee 1 |-Myofibroma 22 eee of Parenchymatous degeneration of Goiter 22.2 --=._.-. eee at
TV CTs a ee ee 1) “Osteomalacia.“— 2. eee 2 Fatty degeneration of liver_____-_ 1°) Impaction of bowel === Ss Peritonitig:s et 20 ee eee 5 | Impaction: of crop___ il Pericarditis ==. 2s ee eee 2 Urinary concretions in cloaca_____ 1 Fatty degeneration of heart and Broken egg in cloaca___-________ a |
Liverce 202 2 AS ee ee eee 1) Starvation 222222 5 Valvular obstruction of heart___. 1 Starvation resulting from cystic Sépticemia 22 22222 See eae all tumor in’ throat eee a Pe WeemMi ae a Le eA ees {|| Stillborn. 2)... eee 4 Cercomonade Troupe 222-2 == 4. | Accident =... eee if Infectious entero-hepatitis______~ 1. | No cause found. 2-22 2 Coccidial’ typhiitig.“2 (3 oe ee 1 |
VISITORS.
The number of visitors to the park during the year was 564,639, a daily average of about 1,547. The largest number in any month was 127,635, in April, 1909, a daily average of 4,254.
During the year there visited the park 148 schools, Sunday schools, classes, etc., with 4,611 pupils, a monthly average of 384 pupils. While most of them were from the city and the immediate vicinity, 25 of the schools were from neighboring States, and classes came from Lowell, Warren, Boston, Fall River, and Dover, Mass.; Portland, Augusta, and Auburn, Me.; and Wallingford; Vt.
NEEDS OF THD PARK.
Aquarium.—The present building was originally a hay shed of ordinary Vir- ginia pine lumber. It is now in a most dilapidated condition, the foundation
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having sunk so much as to crack the glass of the fish tanks, thus causing them to leak. It will be necessary to close this building temporarily unless some means are found for totally reconstructing it. An exhibit of fish and other marine animals is one of the most attractive that can be given in a zoological collection, and it is very desirable that it should be maintained.
Generul aviary.—The need for a structure of this character is evident to any intelligent visitor to the park. Only a part of the collection can now be exhib- ited to the public because of lack of room. ,A number of outdoor shelters and cages should also be provided for the exhibition of hardy birds.
Inclosure for sea lions and seals ——A. proper pool for these animals, with suit- able shelter, should be built as soon as possible. A good site for such an ex- hibit would be just above the wolf and fox dens in the beaver valley.
Antelope house.—The inadequacy of this building has been mentioned in previous reports. If any considerable additions of ruminant animals are re- ceived at the park, it will be necessary to enlarge it.
Office building.—It is greatly to the disadvantage of the park to have the superintendent’s office at so great a distance from the general working force. A suitable structure should be built near the center of activity.
Restaurant and public comfort.—The park is becoming more and more a
_ place of frequent resort for the public, as is shown by the number of visitors.
The present arrangements are totally inadequate. A good restaurant building is urgently needed. Shelters and addition public comfort quarters for visitors are also wanted. At present, whenever a quick rainstorm occurs, many visitors are unable to get proper shelter.
Roads and walks.—It is highly desirable that the construction of roads and walks, which was commenced under the appropriation of $15,000, made in 1907, should now be continued. The general appropriation for the park is insufficient for this purpose.
STATEMENT OF THE COLLECTION.
Accessions during the year:
TEAC ENa AEG), co eR a SS ce Se oe ge ee ye vee eee ee, Sey 124 HERES TANT (el aL TO CC AT epson se ALS) NY ne gf a eR as De ee 12 EARNS C pete eects ane ilk Weil ah a ge siya Fa ule ee 1 307 TDS YO OSH SY 0 Ee I PE Wiles ee ee ee Oe ee a Ree eee Ae RE 9 Born and hatched in the National Zoological Park_______________-_- 110 Cappured in Yellowstone National Park=_—_--_--=---=-_= 2222222 14
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Presented.
DinmongGeracilesnake, ©, Rh. Kappone, Cairo, Gali i-- 2 = al Rhesus monkey, F. N. Meyer, Department of Agriculture________________ Pe Mean virs Gavh. Granam jie. eee ee ee il Common canary, William J. Myatt, Sharon Hill, Philadelphia, Pa________ 27 Chapman’s curassow, C. H. Jones, Campeche, Mexico_-_________________- al Purplish guan, C. H. Jones, Campeche, Mexico_--_______________________ il
Barbados sheep, experiment station, United States Department of Agri- Cuigune).- = Uae SR OE et Wa ae SE cee aS An Se ae eee = Alaska peninsula, brown bear, George Mixter, 2d, Boston, Mass__--------~ 3 Common canary, R. L. Beard, 1013 H street NW., Washington, D. C_--_-- al coal: il
Unidentified bird, Wm. J. Myatt, Sharon Hill, Philadelphia, Pa_______-_- Chicken snake, E. T. Carrico, Stithton, Ky_---_~ abies ie Oe ie Be NT, as a
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Hog-nosed snake, H. I. Carrico, Stithton; Ky22s22== ee Capuchin monkey, Miss M. Alexander, Moorefield, W. Va_--_------------- Goyote, the President, Washington, D/C {>> °. eee Banded rattlesnake, Dr. Prentiss Wilson, 2024 O street NW., Washing-
Spotted lynx, Mr. Hunt, superintendent registry division, city post-office__ Black bear, the President, Washington, D. ©-2—2- 22-22 =e Cooper’s hawk, Russel Meredith, 1219 Girard street, Washington, D. C___ Hog-nosed snake, Capt. J. Walter Mitchell, the Evening Star, Washing-
Gray fox, Miss M. P. Offterdinger, 330 A street NE., Washington, D. C___ Lizard, D: J. Nicholson, Orlando, Wla__-_=-2- 4222202522222 Diana monkey, Nikolai Sokoloff, 14 Park lane, Seinen Plain, Boston,
Sharp-shinned hawk, W. A. Sherman, Vienna, Va..-___-__=__=__=_==52== English rabbit, Mrs. John R. McLean, Friendship, D. C Common ferret, Mrs. John R. McLean, Friendship, D. C_-------------__ Alligator, Miss Sarah Leon, 1133 Fourteenth street, Washington, D. C__-- Yellow-fronted amazon, H. A. Klages, Crafton, Pa=—2-_-2 eee Rabbit, J. B. Henderson, jr., 1306 Euclid place, Washington, D. C__-----_ Brown capuchin monkey, Hon. S. B. Elkins, United States Senate_______ Pine snake, George V. Green, 304 Tenth street NW., Washington, D. C__- Barn owl, Charles Ewald, Alexandria, Va-__-_-- 3 Mallard duck, Mrs. L. E. Johnson, 1007 L street NW., Washington, D. C_- Red-tailed hawk, Jesse Hand, jr., Belleplain, N. J2-222 2 eee Belgian hare, J. H. Fellows, 5504 Wisconsin avenue, Washington, D. C__-_ American raven, J. K. P. Gates, Keokee, Va Barn owl, Adrian Poole, Ashburn,. Va--=-___-__-— Ee EE Barred owl, 1111 IK, street NW., Washington, D. C_-_____- = > ae Screech owl, W. S. Hinman, 2700 Thirteenth street NW., Washington,
Bullfineh, attaché of the Austrian embassy, Washington, D. C Common opossum, the President, Washington, D. C____________________ Common opossum, W. L. McAtee, Department of Agriculture___________ Mule deer, Maj. H. C. Benson, superintendent Yellowstone National
Park, Wyoming
Prong-horn antelope, Maj. H. C. Benson, superintendent Yellowstone’
National Park Wyoming. =... 2-29 eee Raccoon, Charles H. Smith, Piedmont, Va Raccoon) Had. Clark, Irvine, Pa=-- 5-22". eee Common opossum, Pink Cherry Market Company, Atlanta, Ga___________ Alligator, Mr. Widderfield, 1217 Connecticut avenue NW., Washington,
Common skunk, E. Johnson, Washington, D. C__-2222- eee Great horned owl, EF. Johnson, Washington, D. C_____-_____"_ = ees Alligator, attaché of the Austrian embassy, Washington, D. C_____-____ Alligator, Harry Williams, 418 E street NE., Washington, D. C Bald eagle, C. F. Brock, 53 I street NE., Washington, D. C Chamois, Swiss Government. 2 —- === oS eee Common canary, George Hawkins, 2316 First street NW., Washing-
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Black muscovy duck, J. H. Holmead, 3531 Thirteenth street NW., Wasb- stoi, De CI ess RCTS Sf il Alligator, John H. Knight, 1410 Chapin street NW., Washington, D. C___ all Common canary, A. L. Brandon, 2130 G street, Washington, D. C________ 1
Common goat, Louis Brandt, 400 New Jersey avenue NW., Washington, SUD) Pani meme see aoe LUI EC cel Mine Se eh Sh 1 Guest AEE roctor, New, York @ity os) 22 Seven ee ee 1 124
SUMMARY. ENO a SOM an duly: Te LOO Ss. 2 ee Sle ee eee 1, 402 PEE S SUOMI Sy (HUTTE NINE ELLE Vy: ed Tr os ad Se Ba a Se 576 FAA a A Ep I IE a a TZ lt ie 1, 978 Deduct loss (by exchange, death, and returning of animals)_-___________ 562 Ores ar eu es SOs cA OOO es a sk a ete eee 1, 416 F li divid- Species. | eae ‘Vinaieaiis _ UY SO cee ere ee Rpt ane Re oye uSEe Ree Sake 148 | 578 Birds........ Re Bese ef tetas Ye Yo ivac eee boca eedecaets: 173 | 711 IRGiOUINGSL SoU eee eae eee Rete i ea gee ted am eats 8 i wed bat 38 | 127 siete eateries SUS ewOR NA Sey SiS saddentw lick dew slvalsdansdaae as 364| 1,416 3 |
Respectfully submitted. FRANK BaAxkeEr, Superintendent. Dr. CHARLES D. WALCOTT,
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
APPENDIX VY. REPORT ON THE ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY.
Sir: During the past year the temporary wooden shelters used for observing on Mount Wilson, California, in 1905, 1906, and 1908 have been torn down and replaced by a structure of cement blocks. This was erected at a cost of $2,200 on a plot of ground 100 feet square in horizontal projection, leased for a term. of ninety-five years by the Smithsonian Institution from the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory. The new observing shelter is shaped in plan, 36 feet long, 27 feet wide, and with the two branches of the L14 and 10 feet wide, respec- tively. Four tall piers are provided for the future erection of a tower over the south end of the structure. The proposed tower is intended for use as a vertical telescope in solar observations and also as a suitable station for making meas- urements of the brightness of the sky and clouds. Within the new building is a chamber of constant temperature in which is the spectro-bolometric outfit, and also a dark room for photographic work and a small office room. The site leased is on the edge of a preciptous ridge overlooking canyons about 1,000 feet deep on the east, south, and west. It is thoroughly isolated from disturbances caused by electric service, gas engines, or traffic, and seems to be peculiarly well adapted for the work in hand.
The personnel of the observatory has continued principally unchanged. Mr. L. B. Aldrich completed his temporary service as bolometric assistant on Sep- tember 20, 1908. Dr. L. R. Ingersoll was engaged temporarily as bolomotey assistant on Mount Wilson beginning June 21, 1909.
WORK OF THE YDAR.
1. Work at Washington.
Mr. Fowle has continued bolometric observations of the brightness of dif- ferent parts of the sun’s image whenever conditions favored. No measure- ments of the solar constant of radiation were attempted at Washington, as that branch of the work can seldom be done there successfully, on account of smoke and clouds.
A most interesting piece of experimental work on the transparency of air for the long-wave rays, such as the earth radiates, had been begun by Mr. Fowle early in 1908. Results have been obtained by him for the transmission of all rays between wave-lengths Iu and 10u, through a column of air 400 feet long, containing various known amounts of water vapor. Computation of the re-- sults from these experiments is so far advanced as to show their satisfactory quality. Many additional experiments with still longer columns of air and other amounts of water vapor, and extending as far down in the spectrum as wave- length 17y, are in preparation.
The Jate Secretary Langley stated,“ as a result of his Mount Whitney ob- servations: ‘‘I consider that the temperature of the earth under direct sun- shine, even papel our Peo were pee as poe would probably fall
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to —200° C. if that atmosphere did not possess the quality of selective absorp- tion.” <A little later his experimental results on the temperature of the moon led him to change this view, for he said:% “As between my observations and my inferences, I hold to the former; and since later and long-continued ob- servations * * * show that the temperature of the sunward surface of the moon (which is certainly nearly airless) is almost certainly not greatly below zero (centigrade), I have been led to believe myself mistaken in one of my inferences drawn from former experiments.’ Precise knowledge of the select- ive absorption of our atmosphere for earth rays is still lacking, although two decades have elapsed since this was written, and contradictory views are still being expressed about this very important subject by able writers. It is hoped that Mr. Fowle’s experiments will add much definite information, useful in the study of the dependence of the earth’s temperature on radiation.
Computations of the results of Washington and Mount Wilson observations haye gone on steadily, but it has not been possible to keep the reductions abreast with the numerous observations now being obtained. It has been con- sidered desirable to make daily observations of the “solar constant of radia- tion” during the observing season at Mount Wilson, and the reduction of each day’s observations requires several days of measurements and computations
at Washington. 2. Work at Mount Wilson.
Spectro-bolometric measurements of the ‘solar constant of radiation” were continued by Mr. Abbot (with the assistance till September 20 of Mr. Aldrich) on every favorable day until about November 20, 1908. The expedition was re- newed late in the following spring by Mr. Abbot, and observations begun on June 1, 1909. As in former years, evidences of a fluctuation of solar radiation were found in, the results of the measurements of 1908 thus far obtained. Various improvements in the modes of observing have been made, especially ‘in the bolometric measurements of the ultra-violent region of the spectrum, and also in pyrheliometry. A new and improved standard pyrheliometer was tried repeatedly on Mount Wilson. Its action is more satisfactory than the one used in 1906, and great confidence is felt in the results obtained with it. Appar- - ently the results published on the provisional arbitrary scale of pyrheliometry employed in Volume II of the Annals are several per cent higher than they would be if expressed on the scale of the standard calory. On the other hand, the results of the year indicate that a larger allowance of increase should have been made for solar rays in the ultra-violent and extreme infra-red regions of the spectrum not observed in 1905 and 1906 by the bolometer, and this increase will probably nearly or quite compensate the change of scale in pyrheliometry, leaving the mean “solar constant” value very near to 2 calories per square centimeter per minute, as stated in Volume II of the Annals. Great efforts have been made this past year to carry the bolometric measurements much further in the ultra-violet. For this purpose a large quartz prism, a large ultra-violet glass prism, and two magnalium mirrors haye been procured and are now in use on Mount Wilson, and daily observations are now carried as far
as wave-length 0.335u. 8. Mount Whitney Expeditions.
In August, 1908, with Director Campbell, of the Lick Observatory, Mr. Abbot spent about twenty-four hours on the summit of Mount Whitney (14,502 feet). This mountain, which was the objective point of the famous expedition of Mr. Langley in 1881, was recommended by him to be reserved by the Government
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and used as the site for an observatory. The reservation was in fact made, but no observatory has been established there. Mr. Abbot carried with him to Mount Whitney a pyrheliometer and wet and dry thermometers, and made observations on the summit both in the afternoon and morning hours. Both he and Mr. Campbell were favorably impressed with the advantages of the place for observing, and with the relative convenience of ascending the mountain, considering its great altitude. Fine building stone, sand, and water were found at the summit. Messrs. Campbell and Abbot, therefore, recommended to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution that a grant from the Hodgkins fund should be made for the purpose of erecting on the summit of Mount Whitney a stone and steel house to shelter observers who might apply to the Institution for the use of the house to promote investigations in any branch of science. This recommendation was approved, and the house is now in course of con- struction (July, 1909).
It has been held by some astronomers that measurements of the “solar constant of radiation”? by high and low sun observations from a single station at a low altitude, or even at the altitude of Mount Wilson, are subject to a great error by reason of the impossibility of correctly allowing for loss in our atmosphere. In order to ascertain if this objection is well founded, an expe- dition to Mount Whitney by Mr. Abbot is planned for August, 1909. He will carry a complete spectro-bolometric outfit, for which Mr. Kramer has con- structed the mechanical parts in the shop of the Astrophysical Observatory at Washington. This apparatus will point directly at the sun, so as to dispense with reflections at a coelostat. A quartz prism and two magnalium mirrors constitute the sole optical parts of the spectroscope, as it will generally be used, but a glass prism and silvered mirrors will also be employed in the examination of the water vapor bands and of the infra-red spectrum. With the quartz and magnalium outfit it is expected to measure the energy of the spectrum from about wave-length 0.304 in the ultra-violet to wave-length 4p in the infra-red. Simultaneously with these “solar constant” measurements on Mount Whitney complete observations of the same kind will be made on Mount Wilson by Doctor Ingersoll, and if the results of the two shall agree it is thought that there will be left no ground for reasonable doubt of the accuracy
of the method. SUMMARY.
The principal work of the year comprises frequent spectro-bolometric exam- inations of the relative brightness of different parts of the sun’s disk for rays of several different wave lengths; measurements of the transmission of long-wave rays, such as the earth emits, through very long columns of moist air; the steady continuation of the reduction of Mount Wilson and Washington observa- tions; six months of almost daily observation on Mount Wilson for the deter- mination of the variability of the sun; a preliminary observing expedition to the summit of Mount Whitney; and the complete preparation of apparatus and ar- rangements for a series of observations of the “ solar constant ” by the spectro- polometric method, to be made simultaneously at Mount Wilson and Mount Whitney in August, 1909.
Respectfully submitted.
Cc. G. ABBot, Director.
Dr. CHARLES D. WALCOTT, ;
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
APPENDIX VI. REPORT ON THE LIBRARY.
Sir: I have the honor to present the following report on the operations of the library of the Smithsonian Institution for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909:
The retirement early last fall of Dr. Cyrus Adler, librarian of the Institution and later assistant secretary in charge of library and exchanges, in order to assume the presidency of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, of Philadelphia, Pa., was a serious loss to the library. His loyalty, his knowl- edge of library science at home and abroad, his love of books, and his intimate acquaintance with the workings of this library were invaluable not only to the Institution but to investigators at large.
The accessions recorded for the Smithsonian deposit, Library of Congress, numbered 1,623 volumes, 11,947 parts of ‘volumes, 2,937 pamphlets, and 777 charts, making a total of 17,284 publications. :
The accession numbers run from 488,289 to 495,195. These publications were sent to the Library of Congress as soon as received and entered, and in their transmission 166 boxes were required, which, it-is estimated, contained the equivalent of 6,640 volumes, while the number of pieces sent, which includes parts of periodicals, pamphlets, and volumes, was 29,679. This does not include, however, about 3,883 parts of serial publications secured by exchange to com- plete sets transmitted separately.
The policy of sending to the Library of Congress public documents presented to the Smithsonian Institution, without stamping or entering, has been contin- ued, and the number of publications given above does not include these, nor does it include other publications sent to the Library of Congress which are received through the International Exchanges.
The libraries of the Smithsonian office, of the Astrophysical Observatory, and the National Zoological Park have received 294 volumes and pamphlets and 1,690 parts of volumes and charts, making a total of 1,984, and a grand total, including the publications for the Smithsonian deposit, of 23,151.
The parts of serial publications entered on the card catalogue numbered 26,640, and 1,119 slips for completed volumes were made, together with 477 cards for new periodicals and annuals, which were added to the permanent record from the periodical recording desk.
Inaugural dissertations and academic publications were received from univer- sities at the following places:
Basel. Heidelberg. Philadelphia. Bern. Jena. Rostock. Bonn. Kiel. St. Petersburg. Breslau. Konigsberg. Strassburg. Dresden. Leipzig. Warsaw. Erlangen. Lund. Wurzberg. Freiburg-im-Breisgau. Marburg. Ziirich. Giessen. | New York.
Halle-an-der-Saale. Paris.
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Similar publications have been received from the technical high schools at—
Budapest. Karlsruhe. Prague. Darmstadt. Louvain. Upsala. Hannover. Paris. Wiesbaden.
In carrying out the plan to effect new exchanges and to secure missing parts to complete sets, 2,896 letters were written, resulting in about 477 periodicals being added to the lists and the receipt of about 3,883 parts lacking in the sets, which partially filled or entirely completed the various series of publications in the Smithsonian deposit. In writing for the missing parts of publications the library has had assistance from the International Exchanges of the Institu- tion, but the results of these requests can not be definitely stated, as the replies from them were still coming in at the close of the year. In addition, the library has cooperated with the International Exchanges in sending out lists of government documents and serial publications of that class needed to complete the sets in the Library of Congress to the following: Argentine Republic, Austria-Hungary, Baden, Bavaria, Belgium, Bolivia, Bremen, Province of Buenos Aires, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Department of the Seine and city of Paris, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Free City of Hamburg, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Honduras, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Malta, Mexico, Monte- negro, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Prussia, Roumania, Russia, Sweden, Salvador, Saxony, city of Vienna, Uruguay, Wurttemberg.
A decided increase has been noted in the number of persons consulting the publications in the reading room, and in addition there were issued, for office use, 30 bound volumes of periodicals and 3,706 parts of scientific periodicals and popular magazines, making a total of 3,736. While the consultation has been chiefly by members of the staff, the various bureaus of the Government have availed themselves of the opportunity to use these publications and those in the sectional libraries of the Institution.
The mail receipts numbered 28,059 packages. The publications contained therein were stamped and distributed for entry from the mail desk. About 4,980 acknowledgments were made on the regular forms, which are in addition to those for publications received in response to the requests of the Institu- tion for exchange.
The employees’ library.—The books added numbered 19, and of these 18 were purchased, while 110 volumes of periodicals were bound. The number of books borrowed was 1,922, and the sending of a selected number of books from this library to the National Zoological Park and the Bureau of American Hthnology has been continued. :
Art room.—The cataloguing of the collection of engravings in the art room received attention as time would allow, but there still remains a great deal to be done. :
Bibliography of aeronautics.—The bibliography of aeronautical literature, which includes the indexing of papers in periodicals and proceedings of aero- nautical societies, together with books and separate pamphlets on the subject, was completed, bringing the work up to July 1, 1909. At the close of the year the manuscript was ready for the printer.
American Historical Association.—The exchange of the annual reports of the American Historical Association from the allotment agreed upon for that pur- pose has resulted in a number of publications of historical societies throughout the world being added to the Smithsonian deposit at the Library of Congress.
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM.
The library of the Museum has received many gifts of importance during the year. Dr. Charles A. White, Dr. William Healey Dall, and Dr. Charles W.
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‘Richmond have added scientific publications which are of value in completing sets and filling in of the series of authors’ separates. From the estate of Dr. Otis Tufton Mason, through the executor, Dr. E. B. Pollard, the Museum has received Doctor Mason’s working library of anthropological publications, to- gether with a collection of his manuscript notes. Dr. Wirt Tassin, for some time assistant curator of the Division of Mineralogy, contributed about 1,000 pamphlets relating to mineralogy and kindred subjects. There has also been secured by purchase from the estate of Dr. William H. Ashmead a complete collection of his writings, together with his manuscript notes.
Acknowledgments are also due to Dr. E. A. Schwarz, Mr. Wilfred H. Os- good, Dr. O. P. Hay, and Dr. W. P. Hay for collections of publications which they have presented. Additions have also been received to the William Schaus collection and a special bookplate engraved for it is now being placed in the books.
In the Museum library there are now 36,244 volumes, 56,010 unbound papers, and 110 manuscripts. The additions during the year consisted of 2,680 books, 3,671 pamphlets, and 227 parts of volumes. There were catalogued 1,280 books, 1,400 complete volumes of periodicals, and 4,213 pamphlets.
Special attention has been given to the preparation of volumes for binding, with the result that 1,783 books were sent to the government bindery.
The number of books, periodicals, and pamphlets borrowed from the general library amounted to 20,266, including 9,000 which were assigned to the sec- tional libraries. This does not include, however, the large number of books consulted in the library but not withdrawn.
The sectional libraries established in the Museum have remained the same, the complete list now standing as follows:
Administration. | History. Paleeobotany. Administrative assistant. Insects. Parasites. Anthropology. | Invertebrate paleeontol- Photography. Biology. ogy. Physical anthropology. Birds. Mammals. Prehistoric archeology. Botany. | Marine invertebrates. Reptiles. Comparative anatomy. | Materia medica. Superintendent. Editor. | Mesozoic fossils. | Taxidermy. Hthnology. | Mineralogy. Technology.
Fishes. Mollusks.
Geology. Oriental archeology. |
SUMMARY OF ACCHSSIONS.
The following table summarizes all the accessions during the year except for the Bureau of American Ethnology, which is separately administered :
Smithsonian deposit in the Library of Congress, including parts to com-
SOLES CMMESSES Sp Rat ste NS he SA ce STL A AE Ba Tg eh see ee 21, 167
Office, Astrophysical Observatory, National Zoological Park, and inter- RIO MET ROK MANS CS) abe ner es SMa ees sek 2 ee a eee 1, 984: United States. National Museum library. -__=2-5-_-_s-----_--- ——— 6, 578 TING cAl pes eee ieee mek tear ee ee SEB ee ie DOMES oO cee Mae Le 29, 729
Respectfully submitted. PauL BROCKETT, Assistant Librarian, Dr. CHARLES D. WALCOTT, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
APPENDIX VII,
REPORT ON THE INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE.
Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report on the operations of the United States Bureau of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909. c
The United States Regional Bureau is one of the 32 regional bureaus now cooperating, through a central bureau in London, in the production of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. The aim of the enterprise is to index and classify all current published scientific papers and by means of 17 annual volumes publish and distribute the data thus prepared to the various subscribers to the catalogue throughout the world. The methods em- ployed in indexing and classifying each paper result in what is practically an analytical digest of the subject of each paper, this being accomplished by means of references to classification schedules which are arranged to include in systematic order each minute subdivision or subject of all the recognized natural and physical sciences. The regional bureaus are supported by the countries in which they are established, thus allowing all funds derived from subscriptions to be used to defray the actual cost of printing and publishing. The bureau in this country is supported by a direct congressional appropriation.
The allotment for the present fiscal year was $5,000, the same as for previous years; the number of the staff has remained the same, namely, five persons. During the year there were 34,409 classified index cards prepared by this bu- reau and forwarded to Londor as follows:
itera ture: of A901 a2 sok ee) Te ee eee 133 literature: of A902. 22 2 ee ee ee ee 235 niterature (of 41903 oe ye oe a ee ea ee ee 3873 hiterature of T9042. oe ee eee 309 literature Of 90 ps2) ele ee a 1, 656 Tiiterature of 190622025 Co ee ie 4,410 literatures of: LOO Tee so a bk 8, 509 Literaturevot dl G08 wo oT as ee i Ue ee 18, 784
Mota ates ries bie So NR So a 34, 409
The corresponding total for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, was 28,528, thus showing an increase of 5,881, or over 20 per cent. There has been an in- crease also in the number of citations furnished by other bureaus, for since the beginning of the enterprise in 1901 the number of pages in the combined 17 an- nual volumes has increased nearly one-third, as shown by the following table:
Pages, MGS SS 1G! pet St ee es ee es tee oe ee 7, 763 BCCONGNASSUG Ses oe eres = oe eh ee ee 8, 826 AUSTIN S RU1@ me pe ee ee A Pl a ee 8, 493 OUT EW ELS UC ee er Es ee OE ee 8, 681 A ENS a age SIS) DY zane a seo act Ee Rp oe Re Raabe ALBEE SS SL NE ae 10, 785 SUSPD MISSES. ean eh eee ee ee 10, 049
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The number of cards sent from this regional bureau has increased as follows:
LEM@EE, «THUS Sy See Ne aT 0 2 ER aD ee ee Oo, eet ee 6, 990 TEOTE TMS L Sybase Pas pd Or eee ate PCM e fo ale ae 14, 480 JO@IE (SKC SSRN LS Lae RI Ree ae sete es vaNM ISH nE oeoee iste Te are etn, len toee 21, 218 TEBE TESA yA See TUG a i ai a Se SD DR DA A eee ee 24, 182 DEAD EOS Tamm TS evi any, eI) Tig ad) ae ws hI ks eS es 25, 601 FELCH YamBers ctilimsyiGcutsaal ©) (feasts eu a eee i ie ase EN OE a ain eee a i 28, 629 BEST ip teammmTil SSCeeDUI Mey SUITS PIL) (yee eh aE a a nh a hl 28, 528 PESO Team TSS oes meny, TS poe L Oe say Sa EL A 34, 409
Should this increase continue it would add largely to the cost of publication, and as there would be no corresponding addition to the receipts a decided deficit would result, for the subscription price to the catalogue, namely, $85 a year for 17 volumes, was fixed on a basis of the size and cost of the first an- nual issue. It appears not only desirable, but necessary, to condense the refer- ences aS much as possible, though condensation, without loss of usefulness, necessitates much greater care on the part of the classifier in preparing a di- gest. It can not be hoped that much change in the present methods can be made without increasing the force of the bureau.
The following-named volumes of the catalogue were received and delivered to subscribers in this country, as follows:
Sixth Annual Issue—Physics, Chemistry, Palzeontology, General Biology, Botany, Anthropology, Physiology, and Bacteriology, completing the issue.
Seventh Annual Issue—Mathematics, Mechanics, Physics, Astronomy, Miner- alogy, Geology, Geography, Paleontology, and Zoology.
Through the resignation of Dr. Cyrus Adler, assistant secretary of the Smith- sonian Institution, who was in charge of the United States branch of the Inter- national Catalogue, both this bureau and the organization as a whole met with a great loss, notwithstanding the fact that Doctor Adler still remains one of the members of the International Council, the body vested with the supreme con- trol of the catalogue. Doctor Adler was closely identified with the work from the time the original ways and means were being discussed, and it is not too much to say that had it not been for his interest and efforts Mr. Langley, the late Secretary of the Institution, would not have aided the enterprise as he did with the private funds of the Institution. Had not this aid been forthcoming at the time the whole undertaking would have failed, for cooperation on the part of the United States was essential, and, this Government failing at first to lend its aid, there remained no other body than the Smithsonian Institution in a position to become responsible for the work in this country.
It is felt that this International Catalogue of Scientific Literature is but a beginning of what will be eventually a great cooperative international index and digest of all records of human achievement. There is no question of the need for such a publication and, with the satisfactory beginning already made, it is a question of cost alone which limits the field of the present enterprise to include only the literature of pure science to the exclusion of the extensive and valuable literature of the applied sciences and other technical literature.
There have been no losses of property during the year, excepting those caused by ordinary wear and deterioration.
In the sundry civil bill approved March 1, 1909, $6,000 was appropriated to carry on the work for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910.. This sum is an in- erease of $1,000 over the appropriation for previous years.
Respectfully submitted. Leonarp C. GUNNELL,
Chief Assistant, Bureau of International
Dr. Cuagtes D. WALCOTT, Catalogue of Scientific Literature.
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
APPENDIX VIII.
REPORT ON THE PUBLICATIONS.
Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report on the publications of the Smithsonian Institution and its branches during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908:
There have been distributed a total of 757 volumes and separates in the series of Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, 15,080 in the series of Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 22,991 in the series of Smithsonian Annual Reports, and 4,022 in the series of Special Publications. In addition thereto there were sent out by the Institution 1,813 publications not included in the Smithsonian series, making a grand total of 44,163, a decrease of 15,732 from the previous year. The total number of letters relating to publications received amounted to 6,825, an increase of 280 over the previous year.
I. SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE.
In the series of Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge there appeared during the year no original papers, but there was published in August, to meet the increasing demand for the work, a reprint of Mr. Langley’s memoir on The Internal Work of the Wind, originally published in 1893 in quarto form as No. 884, Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. ‘To the present edition was added as an appendix a translation of the “ Solution of a special case of the general problem,” by Réné de Saussure, which appeared in 1893 with “Le Travail Intérieur du Vent” in Revue de l’Aéronautique Théorique et Appliqué, Paris, pages 58-68.
II. SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS.
In the series of Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume LII, there were published 20 papers in the quarterly issue, volume 5, parts 2 and 3; and in the regular series, Volume XXXV, a fourth revised edition of the Smith- sonian Physical Tables by Thomas Gray; and in Volume LIII of the regular series, 3 papers by Charles D. Walcott.
In the quarterly issue the following papers were published :
1813. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Quarterly issue. Volume 5, part 2 (containing Nos. 1814-1823). Octavo. Pages 121-276, with Plates IX-XVIII.
1814. The Nettelroth Collection of Invertebrate Fossils. By R. S. Bassler. Published September 28, 1908. Octavo. Pages 121-152, with Plates IX-XI.
1815. A New Opuntia from Arizona. By J. N. Rose. Published October 6, 1908. Octavo. Page 153, with Plate XII.
1816. The Story of the Devil-Fish. By Theodore Gill. Published October 15, 1908. Octavo. Pages 155-180.
1817. Indians of Peru. By Charles C. Eberhardt, American consul at Tquitns, Peru. Published October 24, 1908. Octavo. Pages 181-194, with Plates XIII, Ven
1818. On Opuntia Santa-Rita, a Species of Cactus of Ornamental Value. By J. N. Rose, associate curator, division of plants, United States National Museum. Published December 29, 1908. Octavo. Pages 195, 196, with Plate XY.
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1819. Two New Species of Abronia. By Anton Heimerl, University of Vienna, Austria. Published December 23, 1908. Octavo. Pages 197, 198.
1820. Preliminary Notice of a Collection of Recent Crinoids from the Philip- pine Islands. By Austin Hobart Clark, collaborator, department of marine invertebrates, United States National Museum. Published December 23, 1908. Octavo. Pages 199-234.
1821. The Relation of Richard Rush to the Smithsonian Institution. By Cyrus Adler. Published January 16, 1909. Octavo. Pages 235-251, with Plate XVI.
1822. Descriptions of Some New Species and a New Genus of American Mosquitoes, By Harrison.G. Dyar and Frederick Knab, of the United States Department of Agriculture. Published January 12, 1909. Pages 253-266.
1823. Notes to Quarterly Issue. Volume 5, part 2. Octavo. Pages 267-273, with Plates XVII, XVIII.
1860. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Quarterly issue. Volume 5, part 3 (containing Nos. 1861-1868). Octavo. Pages 277-401, with Plates XIX— XXXVITI.
1861. The Archer-Fish and Its Feats. By Theodore Gill. Published March 25, 1909. Octayo. Pages 277-286.
1862. The Peoples of Formosa. By Julean H. Arnold, American consul to Formosa. Published March 25, 1909. Octavo. Pages 287-293, with Plates XIX-XXITI.
1863. Our Present Knowledge of Canal Rays: A Detailed Bibliography. By Gordon Scott Fulcher. Published March 25, 1909. Octavo. Pages 295-324.
1864. Observations on Living White Whales (Delphinapterus Leucas) ; with a Note on the Dentition of Delphinapterus and Stenodelphis. By Frederick W. True, head curator of biology, United States National Museum. Published April 28, 1909. Octavo. Pages 325-830, with Plate XXIII.
1865. Some Recent Contributions to Our Knowledge of the Sun. Hamilton Lecture. By George BH. Hale, director of solar observatory of Carnegie Insti- tution of Washington, at Mount Wilson, California. Published May 8, 1909. Octavo. Pages 331-360, with Plates XXIV-XXXVI.
1866. Some New South American Land Shells. By William H. Dall, curator, division of mollusks, United States National Museum. Published May 11, 1909. Octavo. Pages 361-364, with Plate XXXVII.
1867. The American Ferns of the Group of Dryopteris Opposita contained in the United States National Museum. By Carl Christensen, Copenhagen. In Press. Octayo. Pages 365-396.
1868. Notes to Quarterly Issue. Volume 5, part 3. Octavyo. Pages 397-899.
In the regular series of Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections the following have been published:
1038. Smithsonian Physical Tables. Fourth revised edition. By Thomas Gray. Octavo. Pages xxxv, 301. Part of Volume XXXV.
In this edition, published on account of the increased demand for the tables, Professor Gray made a few corrections, particularly in the tables of equivalents of metric and British imperial weights and measures, which were here brought up to date.
1810. Cambrian Geology and Paleontology. No. 3, Cambrian Brachiopoda : Descriptions of New Genera and Species. By Charles D. Walcott. Published October 1, 1908. Octavo. Pages 53-137, with plates 7-10. Part of Volume LIT.
1811. Cambrian Geology and Paleontology. No. 4, Classification and Ter- minology of the Cambrian Brachiopoda. By Charles D. Walcott. Published October 13, 1908. Octavo. Pages 1389-165, with plates 11, 12. Part of Vol-
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1812. Cambrian Geology and Paleontology. No. 5, Cambrian Sections of the Cordilleran Area. By Charles D. Walcott. Published December 10, 1908. Octavo. Pages 167-230, with plates 138-22. Part of Volume LIII.
Publications numbered 1810, 1811, and 1812 were in continuation of the studies of Cambrian Geology and Paleontology, by Charles D. Walcott, the series of which began with Nos. 1804 and 1805, Nomenclature of Some Cambrian Cordilleran Formations and Cambrian Trilobites.
There were in press in the regular series of Smithsonian Miscellaneous Col- lections at the close of the fiscal year, publication No. 1869, The Mechanics of the Earth’s Atmosphere (a collection of translations), second collection, by Cleveland Abbe, and No. 1870, Landmarks of Botanical History, Part I, by Dr. Edward L. Greene. There were in manuscript form, approved for publi- eation, a Bibliography of the Occurrence and Distribution of Tin, by Frank L. and Eva Hess, and a Bibliography of Aeronautics, by Paul Brockett, assistant librarian of the Institution.
III. SMITHSONIAN ANNUAL REPORTS.
The Annual Report for 1907 was largely in type at the beginning of the fiscal year, but owing principally to a delay in the securing of paper the report was not finally published until late in the fall:
1824. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year ending June 380, 1907. Octavo. Pages lvii, 726, with 79 plates.
The following papers, included in the Annual Report of the Board of Regents for 1907, and enumerated in the report on publications for 1908, were issued separately in pamphlet form:
1825. Proceedings of Board of Regents for the year ending June 30, 1907. Report of Executive Committee, Acts and Resolutions of Congress. Octavo. Pages xi—Ivii.
1826. The Steam Turbine on