CONTENTS. 



I. REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Page. 



Resolution of Congress to print extra copies of the report 2 



Letter from the Secretary submitting' the Annual Report of the Institution to 



Congi'ess 3 



Regents, Executive Committee, and members ex officio of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution 4 



Officers and assistants of the Institution and National Museum, January, 1880.. 5 



Contents of the report <i 



Report or the Secretary 11 



Introductory 11 



Finances 14 



Habel bequest 15 



Henry Memorial Services and volume 11 



Statue of Professor Henry 13 



Appointment and election of Regents. 13 



Meeting of the "Establishment" 14 



Researches : Solar eclipses, by Mr. Todd 17 



Apparatus for testing stone 17 



Laboratory j 17 



Telegraphic announcement of astronomical discoveries 11) 



List of minor planets discovered in 1879 22 



Publications of the Institution 23 



Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 23 



Palenque Tablet, by C. Rau 23 



Miscellaneous Collections 2(i 



Writings of James Smithson 27 



History of the Institution, by W. J. Rhees 27 



Journals of the Board of Regents 28 



Toner Lectures (seventh), by Dr. E. O. Shakespeare 28 



Monograph of Chitonida?, by P. P. Carpenter 28 



List of Zoological Genera, by S. H. Scudder 29 



Bulletins of the National Museum 29 



Bulletin 15. — Contributions to the Natural History of Arctic 



America, by L. Kumlien 31 



Proceedings of the National Museum, Volume 1, for 1878 32 



Smithsonian Annual Report for 1878 37 



Reports of the United States Fish Commission 37 



Anthropology 38 



Appropriat ion for ethnologic researches 38 



Order of War Department to transport articles intended for National 



Museum 39 



Catlin collection of Indian paintings 40 



Casts of Indian heads 42 



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