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Title: Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year 1872 Author: ** Place: Washington Publisher: Government Printing Office Date: 1873 Description: 456 pp. Some figures and drawings within text. (8vo), original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Includes chapters on Crystallography, Meteorology in Russia, Ethnology, Ancient Aboriginal Trade in North America, and other scientific and anthropological endeavors. Also a short blurb "On the Accuracy of Catlin's Account of the Mandan Ceremonies." Lot Amendments Condition: Heavily worn covers, front joint splitting, dust soiling, spine lettering faded; name and date 1874 in ink on front free endpaper; some cracking at gutters between signatures; good. Item number: 217258