twenty-four hours being nearly divided between them. 6. Laborers, daily required for cleaning the building after the hours in which it is open to the public, attending to fires, &c. Besides the assistants who receive a salary, a large amount of labor has been given the Institution, without pay, by persons interested in the study of natural history, or who have been engaged in explorations and make use of the facilities afforded by the library and collections in preparing their reports. To most of these, rooms, warmed and lighted, have been assigned in the building, and lodging apartments in the towers. Among these we may mention the names of Mr. F. B. Meek, Dr. W. Stimpson, Dr. Gill, Mr. R. Kennicott, Dr. E. Coues, Dr. H. Allen, Dr. E. D. Cope, and Mr. A. D. Brown. The laboratory has been under the care, for the last few years, of Dr. B. F. Craig, now of the medical department of the army, and also of Dr. Wetherill, just appointed Professor of Chemistry in the new college at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The remuneration they received was either from the government or from private parties, on account of researches principally of an economical character. For the purpose of conducting the foreign exchanges, it has been found necessary to have agents in such central positions as may enable us to distribute the books and specimens most effectually to various parts of the world, and to collect the returns intended for this country. The following are the agents at present employed : Dr. Felix Flugel, Leipsic; Gustave Bossange, Paris; William Wesley, London; Fred. Muller, Amsterdam. The collaborators, to whom references have so frequently been made, include all the prominent cultivators of original science in this country. They have all, with scarcely an exception, rendered assistance in supporting, directing, and advancing the Institution. Its opponents have been mainly those who have been misinformed as to its character and labors, or have been disappointed in the desire to advance personal interests through its means. Respectfully submitted. JOSEPH HENRY, Secretary Smithsonian Institution. JANUARY, 1866. APPENDIX TO THE REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. REPORT OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY, SPENCER F. BAIRD, RELATIVE TO EXCHANGES, COLLECTIONS OF NATURAL HISTORY, &c. During the past year 678 principal packages of various kinds-boxes, bales, or bundles were received at the Institution, and 508 sent out from it by the different express, railroad, or steamship lines. The figures given above, however, do not represent the entire number of parcels received by the Institution, or made up and transmitted by it, since, as will be seen by the subsequent tables, seventy-seven alone of the parcels sent out were boxes for our agents of exchange, containing 1,176 parcels, thus increasing the preceding enumeration by 1,100. Again, of the packages received 60 were boxes from Europe, containing at least 5,000 parcels, making a total of at least 5,600 received, and of about 1,600 transmitted. As usual, the principal statistics connected with the exchanges of the Institution will be given in a series of tables, marked, respectively, A, B, C, and D. As the corresponding receipts in 1864 amounted to 3,686, it will be seen that 1865 exhibits an increase of over 500 volumes and parts of volumes, thus indicating that this source of supply to the library of the Institution exhibits no symptom of diminution. B. Table showing the statistics of the exchanges of the Smithsonian Institution Addressed packages received by the Smithsonian Institution from partics in Albany, N. Y. America for foreign distribution. New York State Agricultural Society.. Boston, Mass. American Academy of Arts and Sciences.. Boston Society of Natural History Number of packages. 72 131 1 308 |