THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. JUNE 30, 1909. Presiding officer ex officio.-WILLIAM H. TAFT, President of the United States. Chancellor.-MELVILLE W. FULLER, Chief Justice of the United States. Members of the Institution: WILLIAM H. TAFT, President of the United States. JAMES S. SHERMAN, Vice-President of the United States. PHILANDER C. KNOX, Secretary of State. FRANKLIN MACVEAGH, Secretary of the Treasury. RICHARD A. BALLINGER, Secretary of the Interior. JAMES WILSON, Secretary of Agriculture. CHARLES NAGEL, Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Regents of the Institution: MELVILLE W. FULLER, Chief Justice of the United States, Chancellor. JAMES S. SHERMAN, Vice-President of the United States. SHELBY M. CULLOM, Member of the Senate. HENRY CABOT LODGE, Member of the Senate. A. O. BACON, Member of the Senate. JOHN DALZELL, Member of the House of Representatives. JAMES R. MANN, Member of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM M. HOWARD, Member of the House of Representatives. JAMES B. ANGELL, citizen of Michigan. ANDREW D. WHITE, Citizen of New York. JOHN B. HENDERSON, citizen of Washington, D. C. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, citizen of Washington, D. C. GEORGE GRAY, citizen of Delaware. CHARLES F. CHOATE, Jr., citizen of Massachusetts. Executive Committee.-J. B. HENDERSON, ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, JOHN DALZELL. Secretary of the Institution.-CHARLES D. WALCOTT. Assistant Secretary.-RICHARD RATHBUN. Chief Clerk.-HARRY W. DORSEY. Accountant and Disbursing Agent.-W. I. ADAMS. THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. Assistant Secretary in charge.-RICHARD RATHBUN. Administrative Assistant.-W. DE C. RAVENEL. Head Curators.-F. W. TRUE, G. P. MERRILL, WALTER HOUGH (acting). W. H. DALL, B. W. EVERMANN, J. M. FLINT, U. S. N. (retired), W. H. Associate Curators.-J. N. ROSE, DAVID WHITE. Curator, National Gallery of Art.-W. H. HOLMES. Chief of Correspondence and Documents.-RANDOLPH I. GEARE. Photographer.-T. W. SMILLIE. Registrar.-S. C. BROWN. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. Chief.-W. H. HOLMES. Ethnologists.-J. WALTER FEWKES, J. N. B. HEWITT, F. W. HODGE, JAMES MOONEY, MATILDA COXE STEVENSON, JOHN R. SWANTON, CYRUS THOMAS. Philologist.-FRANZ BOAS. Illustrator.-DE LANCEY W. GILL. INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES. Chief Clerk.-F. V. BERRY. NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK. Superintendent.-FRANK BAKER. Assistant Superintendent.—A. B. BAKER. ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY. Director.-C. G. ABBOT. Aid.-F. E. FOWLE, Jr. BUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE. Chief Assistant.-L. C. GUNNELL. 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 operations of the Institution during the year ending June 30, 1909, 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 International 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." |