396 CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Appendix to the Report of the Secretary 49 



Entries in Museum record-books in 1873 and 1874 49 



Distribution of duplicate specimens to the end of 1874 49 



Additions to the collections in 1874 50 



List of articles deposited by tbe Institution in the Corcojsan Art Gallery 65 



List of Indian vocabularies received from the Wheeler expedition 66 



Circular in regard to the disease known as Chorea, by Dr, S. W. Mitchell .. 66 



Literary and scientific exchanges 67 



Agents, number of boxes sent, size and weight 67 



Government exchanges 67 



Packages received by the Institution from Europe for distribution in 



America 68 



For institutions, libraries, &c 68 



For individuals 74 



Classified record of miscellaneous meteorological material preserved in the 



Smithsonian Institution 77 



Auroras 77 



Instrnments, (barometers, rain-gauges, &c.) 80 



Meteors 81 



Rain 83 



Wind - 85 



General meteorology : 



Halos, earthquakes, elevations, magnetic declination, balloon 



observations, rise and fall of lakes, lightning, «Ssc 85 



Local meteorology : 



Africa 87 



Asia 87 



Australia ^ 88 



Central America 88 



Europe 89 



North America 90 



British America 90 



Mexico 92 



United States 92 



Polynesia 115 



South America 115 



West Indies, &c 116 



Miscellaneous and unknown 117 



Report of the Executive Committee for 1874 118 



Statement of the fund 118 



Receipts aud expenditures 119 



National Museum appropriations 121 



National Museum balances 122 



Estimates for 1875 122 



Examination and approval of vouchers 123 



Journal OF Proceedings OF the Board of Regents 124 



Meeting of January 20, 1875 124 



Meeting of January 23, 1875 126 



Report of special committee on the Museum 126 



GENERAL APPENDIX. 



La Place, eulogy by Arago 129 



Quktelet, eulogy by Ed. Mailly 169 



