382 CONTENTS. 



Page. 

 Report of Professor Henry, Secretary— Coutinucd. 



National Museum 4G 



Increase of National Museum 4G 



Work cloue in connection ■with the National Museum 50 



Tucson meteorite 51 



Government explorations and surveys 51 



Appendix to the Eeport of the Secretary 58 



International Centennial Exhibition 58 



History of the movement 58 



Plan of exhibition as proposed by the Smithsonian Institution GO 



Progress of the work CO. 



Display of the National Museum 61 



Display of mineral resources Gl 



Display of animal resources G3 



Display of fish and fisheries 64 



Display of Anthropology 67 



National Museum 72 



Number of entries in record-books 72 



Additions to the collections 73 



Exchanges, literary and scientific 91 



Statistics 91 



Government exchanges 91 



Packages received for distribiition 92 



Journal of Proceedings of the Board of Regents 99 



Meeting of January 19, 1876 99 



Meeting of January 26, 187G 100 



Report of special conmiittee on the death of Hon. Henry Wilson, Vice-Presi- 

 dent of the United States 100 



Eulogy on Hon. Henry Wilson, by Hon. Peter Parker 100 



Report of the Executive Committee 103 



Finances 103 



Receipts and expenditures 104 



Hamilton bequest 104 



Virginia bonds 105 



■ First National Bank deposit 107 



ExpendltTires in detail ^ 107 



National Museum appropriations 109 



Examination and approval of vouchers 110 



GENERAL APPENDIX. 



Alexander Volta, eulogy by Arago 115 



The Probable Iuture of the Human Race, by Alphonse de Caudolle 142 



Report on the Transactions of the Society of Physics and Natur.vl His- 

 tory of Geneva from July, 1873, to July, 1874, by Prof. M. A. de Candollo, 



president 1^1 



The Past and Future of Geology, an inaugural lecture by Prof. Joseph 



Prestwich.M.A., F. R. S 175 



Report of the Special Committee for the Consideration of the IS1e:\ioiii 

 of Mr. Hokratii G. Wex, upon the diminution of the water of rivers and 



streams 1''" 



The Refraction of Sound, by William B. Taylor 205 



On the Organization of Local Scientific Societies, by Prof. Joseph 



Henry, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 217 



