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Excerpt from Report of the Secretary and Financial Report of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents: For the Year Ended June 30, 1962 It is important for all who are interested in the work of the Smith sonian to remember that in spite of its outstanding new exhibits the total collections of the Smithsonian contain many more objects than are on exhibition: These great study collections are utilized by hundreds of research workers from other government bureaus and from universities all over the United States each year. The total number of cataloged obj ects at the Smithsonian Institution now numbers nearly 56 million. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.