Abstract
THE report of the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution for the year ending June 30, 1919, is, as always, full of interest, and it differs from similar reports issued in this country in that the points of interest are clearly brought out and not left to be deduced by the reader from masses of undigested detail. The institution controls the work of the National Museum, the Bureau of American Ethnology, the International Exchange Service, the National Zoological Park, the Astrophysical Observatory, and the United States contributions to the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. The Astrophysical Observatory seems a little out of the picture, but the association of the other bodies tends to co-operation and the prevention of overlap.
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Lessons from the Smithsonian. Nature 105, 627–628 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105627b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105627b0
