Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

MEMBERS EX OFFICIO OF THE "ESTABLISHMENT.”

RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, President of the United States.
WILLIAM A. WHEELER, Vice-President of the United States.
MORRISON R. WAITE, Chief Justice of the United States.
WILLIAM M. EVARTS, Secretary of State.

JOHN SHERMAN, Secretary of the Treasury.

ALEX. RAMSEY, Secretary of War.

RICHARD W. THOMPSON, Secretary of the Navy.

HORACE MAYNARD, Postmaster-General.

CARL SCHURZ, Secretary of the Interior.

CHARLES DEVENS, Attorney-General.

EDGAR M. MARBLE, Commissioner of Patents.

REGENTS OF THE INSTITUTION.

MORRISON R. WAITE, Chief Justice of the United States,
President of the Board.
WILLIAM A. WHEELER, Vice-President of the United States.
HANNIBAL HAMLIN, member of the Senate of the United States.
NEWTON BOOTH, member of the Senate of the United States.
ROBERT E. WITHERS, member of the Senate of the United States.
HIESTER CLYMER, member of the House of Representatives.
JAMES A. GARFIELD, member of the House of Representatives.
JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON, member of the House of Representatives.
JOHN MACLEAN, citizen of New Jersey.

PETER PARKER, citizen of Washington, D. C.

ASA GRAY, citizen of Massachusetts.

HENRY COPPÉE, citizen of Pennsylvania.

WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, citizen of Washington, D. C.

NOAH PORTER, citizen of Connecticut.

Executive Committee of the Board of Regents.

PETER PARKER. JOHN MACLEAN.

WILLIAM T. SHERMAN.

OFFICERS OF THE INSTITUTION.

RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, President of the United States, ex officio Presiding Officer. MORRISON R. WAITE, Chief Justice of the United States, Chancellor of the Institution (President of the Board of Regents).

SPENCER F. BAIRD, Secretary (Director of the Smithsonian Institution and of the National Museum).

WILLIAM J. RHEES, Chief Clerk.

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OFFICERS AND ASSISTANTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTI TUTION 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

I.-REPORT OF THE SECRETARY.

THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.

Introductory