Excerpt from 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 30, 1911 The Board of Regents General considerations. Administration Finances Explorations and researches Studies in Cambrian geology and paleontology. Biological survey of the Panama Canal Zone Biological expedition in Canada Rainey expedition in Africa. Bird studies in the Aleutian Islands and Bering Sea Anthropological researches in Peru Researches under Hodgkins fund. Smithsonian table at Naples Zoological Station Publications Library Langley memorial tablet International congresses and celebrations Miscellaneous. National Museum Bureau of American Ethnology International Exchanges National Zoological Park Astrophysical Observatory International Catalogue of Scientific Literature Necrology Appendix I. Report on the United States National Museum II. Report on the Bureau of American Ethnology. III. Report on the International Exchanges. IV. Report on the National Zoological Park. V. Report on the Astrophysical Observatory VI. Report on the Library. VII. Report on the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. VIII. Report on the Publications. IX. Report on Congresses of Librarianl and on Bibliography. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.