32 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY, 



Plan Hypsometrique de Bruxelles et des Environs, 33 parts. Carte 

 des Chemins de Fer de la Belgique, 1876. Carte des Chemins de Fer 

 del'Enrope Centrale. Mirror d'Urauie d'apres 1' Anglais d'Elton. Carte 

 Geuerale de la Palestine. Atlas Universe! de Geographie, composee de 

 20 belles cartes. 



From the Observatory of tbe Roman College, Rome, Italy: Bulletino 

 Meteorologico, 1863-1875, 10 vols., 4to, and 36 astronomical pamphlets. 



From the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm : Hand- 

 lingar Ny. Folja. Yols. x-xii, 1872-1875. 4to. Bihung, vols, i-iii, 

 1872-1776. 8vo. Ofversigt. Vols, xxviii-xxxii, 1872-1876, and 8 parts 

 of volumes and pamphlets. 



From the Russian Government, Ministry of War, St. Petersburg : 

 Eestniah Osadie Straasbourgah; Vols, i and ii. St. Petersburg, 1874, 



1875. 8vo. Artillerysky Zhurual, 61 parts. Eengenneerie Zhurual, 29 

 parts. Oreyeyuyy Zboruik, 22 parts, and Voennoe Zboruik, 6 parts. 



From the Hungarian Academy of Science, Buda-Pesth : Publications 

 of the Academy, 38 vols, and 133 parts of volumes. Buda-Pesth, 1875- 



1876, 4to. and 8vo. 



From the Board of Admiralty, Loudon : Tide-tables for the British 

 and Irish ports, 1876, 8vo. Remarks on Davis Straits, Baffin's Bay, «S:c., 

 1875, 8vo. Lights, 1876, 10 in number, and 32 charts published by the 

 Hydrographic Office. 



From the Royal Library, Stockholm : Government documents, 25 vol- 

 umes, 1876, 4to. 



From the Imperial Medico-Chirurgical Academy, St. Petersburg : 31 

 Inaugural dissertations for 1875. 



From the Universities of Dorpat, Helsingfors, Berlin, Bonn, Buda- 

 Pesth, Erlangen, Gottiugen, Greifswald, Halle, Heidelberg, Leipzig, 

 Marburg, Tubingen, Bern, Ziirich, Louvain, and from the Royal High- 

 School, Utrecht: Inaugural dissertations for 1875. 



From the Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Canada: 21 volumes, and 

 from the Parliament of Ontario, Toronto, 10 volumes government docu- 

 ments. 



From the State Library of Vermont : 6 volumes documents. 



From the State Library of Ohio : 10 volumes documents. 



ETHNOLOGY. 



The Institution during the past year has, as usual, given special at- 

 tention to ethnology, and has directed investigations to be made in 

 all cases where information has been received of the existence of 

 mounds, shell-heaps, &c. The subject, however, has received a special 

 impetus through the Centennial appropriation of Congress, circulars 

 having been distributed to the correspondents of the Institution re- 

 questing aid in collecting specimens and in giving information as to 

 the existence of particular collections. By this means and through the 

 agency of the United States Indian Bureau a very large addition has 



