CONTElSTTS 



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Order of Congress to print the report 2 



Letter from the Secretary submitting report to Congress 3 



List of Kegeuts and members ex officio of the Institution 5 



Officers of the Institution 6 



Programme of organization 7 



Eepokt op the Secret AiiY 13 



Finances 13 



Virginia stock 13 



Publications 14 



Kules of distribution of publications 18 



Exchanges 18 



Freight facilities 19 



Regulations for exchanges 20 



Library 21 



Donations to the Library 21 



National Library 22 



Meteorology 23 



Explorations and collections 26 



Distribution of specimens 31 



Collaborators 31 



Correspondence 34 



Miscellaneous items 35 



National Museum 37 



Catlin collection 40 



Appendix to the Eepop.t of the Secretary 42 



Entries in Museum record-books in 1870 and 1871 42 



Distribution of duplicate specimens .^,, 42 



Additions to the collections in 1871 43 



Statistics of literary and scientific exchanges 51 



Packages sent from America to foreign institutions 52 



Packages received from Europe to, etc , 54 



List of meteorological stations and observers 63 



Meteorological material received in 1871 and kept in the Institution 75 



Meteorological articles received by the Institution, deposited in the Library 



of Congress in 1871 80 



Eeport of the Executive Committee 99 



Receipts 100 



Expenditures 101 



Approi)riation8 from Congress 101 



Estimates for 1872 102 



Journal of Proceedings of the Board of Regea^ts 103 



GENERAL APPENDIX. 



Memoir of Sir John Frederick William Herschel, by N. S- Dodge 109 



Eulogy on Joseph Fourier, by M. Arago 137 



Professor Thomas Graham's Scientific Work, by William Odling 177 



