OFFICERS AND ASSISTANTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION AND NATIONAL MUSEUM, JANUARY, 1881.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FOR

THE YEAR 1880.

CONTENTS.

1. Annual report of the Secretary, giving an account of the operations

and condition of the Institution for the year 1880, with the statistics of

collections, exchanges, &c.

2. Report of the Executive Committee, exhibiting the financial affairs

of the Institution, including a statement of the Smithson fund, the re-

ceipts and expenditures for the year 1880, and the estimates for 1881.

3. Proceedings of the Board of Regents for the session of January,

1881

4. General appendix, comprising a record of recent progress in the

principal departments of science, and special memoirs, original and
selected, of interest to collaborators and correspondents of the Institu-
tion, teachers, and others engaged in the promotion of knowledge.

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CONTENTS.

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

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

Congress.....

Members ex-officio of the "Establishment," and Regents of the Institution....

Officers and assistants of the Institution, and of the National Museum..

General subjects of the Annual Report...

Contents of the Report ...

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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-Continued.

Explorations-Continued.

F. A. Ober-West Indies

David S. Jordan and Charles H. Gilbert-Pacific coast

Tarlton H. Bean-Alaska...

W. H. Dall-Alaska.....

H. H. Rusby-New Mexico.

Howgate arctic expedition.

Publications

Index to Smithsonian publications....

Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge

Twenty-second volume..

Palenque tablet, by Dr. C. Rau....

Physiological research: Dr. H. C. Wood, on "Fever"

Meteorology-tables of rain-fall...

Archæology (G. Latimer, F. A. Ober, L. H. Morgan, and L. Fison)

Miscellaneous Collections..

Seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth volumes

Sixteenth volume....

Memoir of James Smithson, by W. J. Rhees....

Henry memorial volume....

Digest of atomic weights, by G. F. Becker

The Toner lectures...

Lecture on sanitary drainage, by George E. Waring.

Physical tables, by Professor Guyot...

Bulletins of the National Museum...

Proceedings of the National Museum.

Systematic nomenclature...

Smithsonian Annual Report

Contents of Report for 1878..

Contents of Report for 1879.

NATIONAL MUSEUM.......

Increase of the Museum

1. By localities-

Alaska....

California

Arizona...

New Mexico....

Montana....

Wyoming Territory.

Florida

Atlantic coast..

Mexico....

West Indies..

South America

Europe

Western Africa...

2. By subjects-

Ethnological contributions...

Mammals

Birds

Reptiles

Fishes

Shells..

Foreign institutions in correspondence with the Institution....

2. Domestic exchanges in 1880....

Packages received from abroad for distribution in the United States.

Packages received for distribution in British America....

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Rules for the examination of specimens submitted to the Institution

Report of the Chemist, F. W. Taylor.

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