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and Condition theShowing the Operations, Expenditures, of
Institution the Year Ended June 30for
1955
UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON 1956
For gale the Superintendent of Docnraenta, U. S. GoTernment Printing 0£Bceby
Washington D. • Price $4 (cloth)23, C.
WOV -p I95S LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, December 29, 1955.
To the Congress oj the United States:
section of Revised Statutes of theIn accordance with 5593 the
United States, I have the honor, on behalf of the Board of Regents,
of theto submit to Congress the annual report operations, expendi-
Smithsonian Institution for thetures, and condition of the year ended
June 30, 1955. I have the honor to be.
Respectfully,
Leonard Carmichael, Secretary. CONTENTS
Page
vList of officials
1General statement
5The Establishment
Regents 6The Board of
7Finances
7Visitors
9Lectures
of Langley medal 9Award
Dr. Abbot honored 10
Funds for the Institution 10
11Bio-Sciences Information Exchange
11Organization and staff
year's activities of the Institution 12Summary of the
of the Institution:Reports of branches
National Museum 16United States
American Ethnology 36Bureau of
Observatory 60Astrophysical
Collection of Fine Arts 64National
Gallery of Art 76Freer
Air Museum 88National Zoological Park 104
Canal Zone Biological Area 129
International Exchange Service 136
National Gallery of Art 145
Report on the library 157
Report on publications 160
Board of of the executive committee of the Regents 167
GENERAL APPENDIX
Science serving the Nation, by Lee A. DuBridge 177
D.The development of nuclear power for peaceful purposes, by Henry
Smyth 189
The time scale of our universe, by E. J. Opik 203
Spencer 227Solar activity and its terrestrial effects, by Sir Harold Jones
Hunsaker 241Forty years of aeronautical research, by J. C.
273A transatlantic telephone cable, by H. A. AfFel
Genetics man, Bentley 299in the service of by Glass
Cultural Raymond A. Dart 317status of the South African man-apes, by
The history the mechanical heart, by George B. Griffenhagen andof
Calvin Hughes 339H.
III :
CONTENTSIV
Pace
Some chemical studies on viruses, by Wendell M. Stanley 357
The scent language of honey bees, by Ronald Ribbands 369
The army ants, by T. C. Schneirla 379
The hibernation of mammals, by L. Harrison Matthews 407
Parasites common to animals and man, by Benjamin Schwartz 419
Some observations on the functional organization of the human brain, by
Wilder Penfield 433
The place of tropical soils in feeding the world, by Robert L. Pendleton. _ 441
Tree rings and history in the western United States, by Edmund Schulman. 459
New light on the dodo and its illustrators, by Herbert Friedmann 475
and JohnGeorge Catlin, painter of Indians the West, by C. Ewers 483
LIST OF PLATES
Secretary's Report:
Plates 1, 2_ 46 3, 4 86
Plates 5, 6, 7 118
Solar activity (Spencer Jones) : Plates 1, 2 230
(Hunsaker) 1-10Forty years of aeronautical research : Plates 262
South African mau-apes (Dart)
1-4.Plates 326
(Griffenhagen and Hughes) : Plates 1-4 342Mechanical heart
1-3 358Viruses (Stanley): Plates
honey (Ribbands) : Plates, 2 374Scent language of bees 1,
Army ants (Schneirla): Plates 2 3901,
Hibernation of mammals (Matthews): Plates 4141,2
Parasites common animals and man (Schwartz) : Plates 1-4 422to
organization of the human brain (Penfield) : Plate 1 438Functional
Tree rings and history (Schulman) : Plates 1-4 470
Dodo (Friedmann): Plates 1-5 478
George Catlin (Ewers): Plates 1-20 528 THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
1955June 30,
—Presiding Dvviqht D. Eisenhower, President of the UnitedOfficer ex officio.
States.
—Chancellor. EaelWakken, Chief Justice of the United States.
Meynbers of the Institution:
DwiGHT D. Eisenhoweb, President of the United States.
RichardM. Nixon, Vice of the
Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States.
John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State.
George M. Humphrey, of the Treasury.
Charles E. Wilson, Secretary of Defense.
Herbert Browneix, Jr., Attorney General.
Arthur E. Summerfield, Postmaster General.
Douglas McKay, Secretary of the Interior.
EzraTaft Benson, of Agriculture.
Sinclair Weeks, Secretary of Commerce.
James P. Mitchell, of Labor.
OvETA and Welfare.CuLP Hobby, Secretary ofHealth, Education,
Regents of the Institution:
EablWarren, Chief Justice of the United States, Chancellor.
Richard M. Nixon, Vice President of the United States.
Clinton P. Anderson,Member of the Senate.
Leverett Saltonstall, of the
H. Alexander Smith, Member of the Senate.
ClarenceCannon, of the House Representatives.of
0^^!:RTON Brooks, Member of theHouse of
John M. Vorys, of the of
VannevabBush, citizen ofWashington, D. C.
Arthur H. Compton, citizen of Missouri.
Robert Fleming,V. of D. C.
Jerome C. Hunsaker, citizen of Massachusetts.
—Executive Committee Robert V. Fleming, chairman, Vannevar Bush, Clar-
ence Cannon.
—Seci'etary. Leonard Carmichael.
—Assistant Secretaries. John E. Graf, J. L. Keddy.
—Administrative assistant to the Secretary. Mrs. Louise M. Pearson.
—Treasurer. Thomas F. Clark.
—Chief, editorialand publications division. Paul Oehseb,H.
—Assistant editorial andchief, publications division. John S. Lea.
—Librarian. Mrs. Leila Clark.F.
Superintendent buildingsof and grounds.—L. L. Oliver.
—Assistant superintendents of buildings and grounds. Charles C. Sinclair,
Andrew P. Michaels, Jr.
—Chief, personnel division. Jack B. Newman.
— supply division. Anthony W. Wilding.
Chief, photographic laboratory.—F. B. Kestner. ;;;
REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1955VI ANNUAL
STATES NATIONAL MUSEUMUNITED
—A. Remington Kellogg.Director.
specialist.— E. Anglim.Exhihits J.
—T. G. Baker, Don H. Berkebile, R. O. Hower, BenjaminExhiiits toorkers.
Marinetti, Edward W. Normandin, Jr., Morris M. Pearson,Lawless, W. T.
George Stuart.
—records. Helena M. Weiss.Chief, office correspondence andof
Department of Anthropology :
Andrews, exhibits specialistFrank M. Setzler, head curator ; A. J.
Smithsonian fellow in anthropologyMrs. Arthur M. Greenwood,
W. W. Taylor, Jr., collaborator in anthropology.
asso-Division Archeology: Waldo R. Wedel, curator; Clifford Evans, Jr.,of
Meggers,ciate curator ; George S. Metcalf, museum aid ; Mrs. Betty J.
research associate.
Division Ethnology: H. W. Krieger, curator; J. C. Ewers, C. M. Watkins,of
associate cui-ators; R. A. Elder, Jr., assistant curatoi'.
Division Physical Anthropology: T. Dale Stewart, curator M. T. Newman,of ;
curator Tobin, research associate.associate ; W. J.
in Anthropology : Neil M. Judd.Associate
Department of Zoology :
chief exhibits preparatorWaldo L. Schmitt, head curator ; W. L. Brown,
D.C. R. Aschemeier, W. M. I'errygo, E. G. Laybourne, C. S. East, J.
Biggs, exhibits preparators ; Mrs. Aime M. Awl, scientific illustrator.
Division Mammals: D. H. Johnson, acting curator; H. W. Setzer, Charlesof
O. Hauley, Jr., associate curators; J. W. Paradise, museum aide;
A. Brazier Plowell, collaborator ; Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., associate.
Division Birds: Herbert Friedmann, curator; H. G. Deignan, associateof
curator ; Gorman M. Bond, museum aide ; Alexander Wetmore, research
associate and custodian of alcoholic and skeleton collections.
Division Reptiles Amphibians: Doris Cochran, associate curator.of and M. Fishes: Leonard P. Schultz, curator; E. A. Lachner, associateof
curator Robert H. Kanazawa, museum
; aide.
Divisimi of Insects: J. F. Gates Clarke, curator; O. L. Cartwright, W. D.
Field, Paifin,Grace E. Glance, associate curators; Sophy junior ento-
mologist ; W. L. Jellison, M. A. Carriker, R. E. Snodgrass, C. F. W. Muese-
beck, collaborators.
Section of Hymenoptera : W. M. Mann, Robert A. Cushman, assistant
custodians.
Section of Diptera : Charles T. Greene, assistant custodian. of Coleoptera : L. L. Buchanan, specialist for Casey collection.
Division Marine Invertebrates: F. A. Chace, Jr., curator; Frederick M.of
Bayer, T. E. Bowman, associate curators; Mrs. L. W. Peterson, museum
aide; Mrs. Harriet Richardson Searle, Max M. Ellis, J. Percy Moore,
collaborators ; Mrs. Mildred S. Wilson, collaborator in copepod Crustacea.
Division Mollusks: Harald A. Rehder, curator; Joseph P. E. Morrison,of
associate curator ; W. J. Byas, museum aide ; Paul Bartsch, associate.
Section of Helmiuthological Collections: Benjamin Schwartz, collabo-
rator.
Associates in Zoology : T. Palmer, B. Marshall,S. W. A. G. Boving, C. R.
Shoemaker.
Collaborator in Zoology Clark.
: R. S. in Biology : D. C Graham.
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