474 CONTENTS. 



Report of the Executive Committee — Continued. 



Building 118 



General expenses 118 



Publications and researches 118 



Exchanges 118 



Museum 119 



Repayments 119 



Estimates for expenditures for 1877 119 



Estimated receipts 119 



Provisional appropriations 119 



National Museum 120 



Examination of vouchers 121 



Journal of Proceedings of the Board of Regents 123 



Meeting of January 24, 1877 . 123 



Report of special committee on Museum 124 



Meeting February 1, 1877 124 



Meeting February 5, 1877 129 



Memorial to Congress relative to a new building for the collections 129 



List of collections presented by foreign governments to the United States.. 131 



GENERAL APPENDIX. 



Gay-Lussac, eulogy by M. Arago 138 



Biographical Sketch of Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, by Anpriso 



Fialbo 173 



Kinetic Theories of Gravitation, by William B. Taylor... 205 



The Revolutions of the Crust of the Earth, by Prof. George Pilar 283 



The Asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, by Daniel Kirkwood 358 



Ethnology 372 



The Latimer collection of antiquities from Porto Rico in the National Mu- 

 seum at Washington, D. C. O. T. Mason 372 



The prehistoric antiquities of Hungary, by Prof. F. F. Romer 394 



Jade. A historical, archaeological, and literary study of the mineral called 



yu by the Chinese, by S. Blondel 402 



Antiquities in Guatemala, by Hon. George Williamson 418 



Collections of historical documents in Guatemala, by Dr. C. H. Berendt 421 



Observations on the prehistoric mounds of Grant County, Wisconsin, by 



Moses Strong 424 



Deposits of flint implements, by J. F. Snyder, M. D 433 



Ancient mica-mines in North Carolina, by C. D. Smith 441 



Double-walled earthwork in Ashtabula County, Ohio, by Stephen D. Peet.. 443 



Ancient implement of wood, by E. W. Ellsworth 445 



Centennial mission to the Indians of Western Nevada and California, by 



Stephen Powers 449 



Indian forts and dwellings, by Dr. W. E. Doyle 460 



The Sioux or Dakota Indians, by Col. A G. Brackett 4C6 



