436 INDEX. 



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Electricity, Miiller's report on 333 



The Leyden Jar, and effects of the discharge 323 



Electrical Spark and Brush 367 



Electrical Odor 387 



Entomology, Study of 25 



Estimates of Appropriations for 1858 63 



Executive Committee, Eeport of 66 



Exchanges, System, and Operations 28,33,39,40,41,42,43,44 



Expeditions of Government 46,47,48 



Expenditures during 1857 - 67 



Explorations 29 



Felton, Prof. C. C, Eeport on the Present of Miss Contaxaki 79 



Fendler, A , Meteorology of Colonia Tovar, South America 179 



Fossils of South Carolina 21 



Gale, Dr. L. D., Letter of April 7, la56, relative to Morse's Invention ' 92 



Gale, Dr. L. D , letter of Aug. 7, 1857, relative to his interest in Morse's Telegraph 93 



Gallery of Art, Additions to 35 



Galvanism, Report on 394 



Gauss, Theory of the Motion of the Heavenly Bodies 21 



Geology, General Views of 119 



Gibbs & Genth, Researches and Memoir, by .., 16 



Goddard, G. H., Meteorological Observations 300 



Guyot, A., Meteorological and Physical Tables 24 



Half-hourly Barometrical Observations 206, 2(J8, 255,2.56,257,258,259,260,261,282 



Hall, Prof James, Letter of January 19, 1856, relative to Henry's Discoveries and 



Experiments in 1832 _ c.. 96 



Hall, Prof. James, Revision of Troost's Memoir, by 24 



Hare, Dr. R<jbert, Resolutions relative to the death of 84 



Harvey, Dr. W. H., Memoir on Algse 17 



Henry, Prof , Communication relative to Mr. Morse 85 



Deposition in Telegraph case 107 



Experiments by - 101, 102 



Report of Committee on Communication of 88 



History of the Telegraph 99 



Hilgard, Dr. E. M , Experiments by 30 



Holmes, F. S., and M. Tuomey, on the Fossils of S. C 22 



Honorary Members of the Institution 6 



Indian Portraits, Stanley's Gallery 36, 82 



Journal of Proceedings of the Board of Regents 72 



Kane, Dr. E. K., Resolutions respecting 74 



Laboratory 30 



Le Conte, Prof Jos., Lectures on Coal 119 



Lectures during season 1657—8 36, 37 



Lectures on Coal, by Prof. Jos. Le Conte 119 



Lecture on the Vastness of the Visible Creation, by Prof S. Alexander 169 



Letter of the Secretary to Congress - 3 



Library, Donations received 31 



Library, New Arrangements in 31 



