ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE YEAR 1883. SUBJECTS. 1. Proceedings of the Board of Regents for the session of January, 1884. 2. Report of the Executive Committee, exhibiting the financial affairs of the Institution, including a statement of the Smithson fund, the receipts and expenditures for the year 1883, and the estimates for 1884. Report of the same committee on the inauguration of the Henry statue. 3. Annual report of the Secretary, giving an account of the operations and condition of the Institution for the year 1883, with the statistics of collections, exchanges, &c. 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 Institution, teachers, and others engaged in the promotion of knowledge. IV CONTENTS. Page. Letter from the Secretary, submitting the Annual Report of the Regents to International Conference on Exchanges, at Brussels... List of official publications from Public Printer, 1883 Report on National Museum by Assistant Director and Curators Metallurgy and economic geology collection.... Library of the National Museum Appendix A, officers of the National Museum Stone mounds of Hampshire County, W. Virginia, by L. A. Kengla Remains in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, by John A. Ruth.... Relics in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., by Henry Booth Notes on the Wampanoag Indians, by Henry E. Chase.. Antiquities from Ometepec, Nicaragua, by Charles C. Nutting. On the Phonology of four Siouan Languages, by J. Owen Dorsey |