'62 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



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

 des Chemins de Fer de la Belgiqne, 187G. Carte des Cheuiius de Fer 

 deTEurope Ceutrale. Mirror d'Uranie d'apres l'Anglais d'Elton. Carte 

 G-nerale de la Palestine. Atlas Universel de Geograpbie, composee de 

 20 belles cartes. 



From tbe Observatory of tbe Roman College, Rome, Italy: Bulletiuo 

 Meteorologico, 18G3-1875, 10 vols., 4to, and 3G astronomical pampblets. 



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

 lingar Ny. Folja. Vols, x-xii, 1S72-1S75. 4to. Bihung, vols, i-iii, 

 1872-1776. 8vo. Ofversigt. Vols, xxviii-xxxii, 1872-187G, 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, Gl parts. Eengenneerie Zhurual, 29 

 parts. Oreyeyuyy Zboruik, 22 parts, and Voennoe Zboruik, G 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, London : Tide-tables for the British 

 and Irish ports, 187G, 8vo. Remarks on Davis Straits, Baffin's Bay, &c, 

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

 Hydrographic Office. 



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

 umes, 187G, 4to. 



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

 Inaugural dissertations for 1875. 



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

 Pesth, Erlangen, Gottingen, Greifswald, Halle, Heidelberg, Leipzig, 

 Marburg, Tubingen, Bern, Zurich, 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 

 haviug 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 



