Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1917 — RECORD OF SEVEN[?] YEARS [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF SEVEN[?] YEARS

Smithsonian Institution Has Been Active in Good Work for the Past Seven Decades. Today, after 70 years, the operations of the Smithsonian institution are international In scope and governmental in affiliations.. The institution is now administering several government-sup-ported bureaus, some of which had their origin in the Institution’s early activities. Among those governmental branches are: The United States National museum, including the National Gallery of Art, the official depository of all national collections; the bureau of American ethnology, - which conducts and records studies of American aboriglniesjthe Astrophysical observatory, which Investigates the physical properties of the sun; the National Zoological park; the International Exchange service, the official medium for the exchange of publications with foreign governments, and the Regional Bureau for the United States of the International Catalogue of Scientific literature, which prepares and publishes afi annual classified index of all the scientific publications of the world.