TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PREFACE Page (i) 



PART I. 



GENERAL SUMMARY OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS 



DURING TUE YEAR 1876. 



ASTRONOMY. By Edward S. Holdex, Professor of Mathematics, 



United States Navy xvii 



METEOROLOGY AND TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS. By Clevela>^d 



Abbe xxvii 



GENERAL PHYSICS. By George F. Barker, Professor of Physics in 



the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia xl v 



CHEMISTRY. By George F. Barker, Professor of Physics in the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Ixx 



MINERALOGY. By Edward S. Dana, Ph.D., Yale College, New Ha- 

 ven Ixxxiv 



GEOLOGY. By T. Sterry Hunt, LL.D., r.R.S., Professor of Geology, 



Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston Ixxxix 



GEOGRAPHY. By Lieutenant-Commander F. M. Green, U. S. N cv 



HYDROGRAPHY. By Lieutenant-Commander F. M. Green, U. S. N. . . cxx 



ANTHROPOLOGY. By Otis T. Mason, Columbian University, Wash- 

 ington CXXIX 



GENERAL ZOOLOGY. I. By Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr cxliv 



II. By Prof. Theo. N. Gill. 



INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY. By Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr cli 



VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY. By Prof. Theo. N. Gill clxvi 



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