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THIS is the most bulky, and perhaps the most valuable, of these well-known Reports; it consists of very nearly 1000 pages, and we learn, from the resolution of Congress which precedes it, that 16,060 copies have been printed. The more strictly official part of it deals with the Smithsonian Institution and the Natural History Museum, including the Report of the Committee on the Henry statue recently erected in the grounds; but, besides these, we have Reports on the various branches of science, so valuable that no scientific library should be without them. Astronomy has been taken in hand by Prof. Holden, the newly-appointed Director of the Lick Observatory; meteorology, by Mr. Cleveland Abbe; physics, by Prof. Barker; zoology, by Prof. Guild; and anthropology by Mr. Otis T. Mason, the latter covering nearly 200 pages. Other branches of science besides those which we have named are reported at less length.
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year 1883.
(Washington Government Printing Office, 1885.)
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Our Book Shelf . Nature 33, 126 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/033126a0
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