REPORT OF THE SECRETARY, 29 



Tnstitutiou. This volume comprises 544 pages of text, illustrated by 20 

 plates and 474 wood-cuts ; and embraces the following subjects : 



Introduction, 16 pp.— 1st. Explorations of tlie Aboriginal Eemaius 

 of Tennessee. By Joseph Jones, M.D. Published October, 1876. 4to., 

 181 pp. 95 wood- cuts. 



2d. The Sculptures of Santa Lucia Cosumalwhuapa in Guatemala. 

 With, an account of Travels in Central America and on the Western 

 Coast of South America. By S. Habel, M. D. Published February, 

 1878. 4to., 94 p. 8 plates. 



3d. The Arch.-eological Collection of the United States National 

 Museum, in charge of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D. 

 C. By Charles Kau. Published August, 1876, 4to., 118 pp. 340 

 wood-cuts. 



4th. The Palenque Tablet in the United States National Museum. 

 Washington, D. C. By Charles Eau, Published November, 1879, 

 4to,, 91 pp, 2 plates and 39 wood-cuts. 



5th. On the Eemains of Later Pre-Historic Man obtained from Caves 

 in the Catherina Archipelago, Alaska Territory, and especially from 

 the Caves of the Aleutian Islands. By W. H. ball. Published Janu- 

 ary, 1876. 4to., 44 pp. 10 plates. 



Palenque Tablet— From the interest expressed by Mexican arch^olo- 

 gists in the history of the Palenque Tablet, and in Dr. Eau's memoir on 

 that subject, it was presumed that this paper would be translated and 

 published by the National Museum of Mexico, under the charge of its 

 eminent director, Senor Don Gumesindo Mendoza, and accordingly as 

 an act of international courtesy it was determined to offer to him 

 electrotype copies of the plates, as also a supply of phototype prints 

 from the tablet itself. This proposal was at once thankfully accepted 

 by Seuor Mendoza, and the preparation of the translation of the text 

 promptly undertaken. Copies of the memoir in the Spanish version, 

 giving the text and all the notes in full, have lately been received by 

 the Institution, 



Physiological Research.— A memoir has been published during the 

 past year on the subject of "Fever," considered physiologically as well 

 as pathologically. The researches set forth in this work were under- 

 taken by Dr. H. C, Wood, jr,, of Philadelphia, under the auspices of the 

 Institution; and a notice of the character of the investigation, pre- 

 pared by the author, was presented in the Eeport for 1878. The print- 

 ing of the memoir was considerably delayed by the necessity of a criti- 

 cal revision of the tables and calculations, which was intrusted to Mr. 

 C. B. Young, of this Institution, and which has received from him careful 

 and laborious attention. He also corrected all the proof-sheets. This 

 memoir, forming No, 357 of the Smithsonian publications, comprises 266 

 quarto pages, illustrated by 5 plates and 16 wood-cuts. The general 

 conclusion arrived at, as summarized in the memoir, is that the cause 

 of fever "is simply a state in which a depressing poison or a depress- 



