The Smithsonian park occupies a square equivalent to nine city blocks, almost exactly the same size as the Capitol grounds. The oldest building, that of the institution proper, was erected in 1847-1855. It is of seneca brown stone in a mingled Gothic and Romanesque style, designed by James Renwick, and is located in the S.W. part of the grounds. S.E. of it is the arts and indus tries building of the U.S. National Museum (33o ft.sq.), erected in 1881; and on the N. side of the park is the Natural History building of the National Museum (i9i 1). S.W. of the original Smithsonian building is the Freer Gallery of Art. The note worthy aeroplane exhibit, and the Astrophysical Observatory, occupy temporary structures S. of the original building. On the grounds is a bronze statue of Joseph Henry by W. W. Story.
The institution publishes: Annual Reports (1846), in which the Reports of the National Museum were included until 1884— since then the Museum Reports have appeared as separate vol umes ; Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge (1848) ; Smith sonian Miscellaneous Collections (1862) ; Proceedings of the United States National Museum (1878) ; Bulletins of the United States National Museum (1875), containing larger monographs than those printed in the Proceedings; and occasional Special Bulletins; Annual Reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology (188o) ; Bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1887), including The Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico (1907), pt. i being Bulletin 3o; and Contributions to North Amer
ican Ethnology (1877-1893) ; Annals of the Astrophysical Ob servatory (1900) ; and Catalogues of the National Gallery of Art (1922).
The Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1896: The History of its First Half-Century (1897) ; Wm. J. Rhees, Smithson and His Bequest, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections (188o) ; The Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Report for 1925; Richard Rath bun, The National Gallery of Art, Bulletin 70 of the U.S. National Museum, 1909. (C. G. A.)