28 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Mr. William J. Eliees, chief clerk of tlie Institution, and has been pub- 

 lished. This history forms an octavo volume of 1,027 pages. It con- 

 tains the will of Smithson, a republication of all the debates and legis- 

 lation of Congress relative to the bequest, the correspondence and 

 official papers of Mr. Rush, the agent of the United States in procuring 

 the legacy, the history of the investment of the fund, the opinions of 

 learned men as to the best disposition of the bequest, and many other 

 documents of value in connection with the history of the establishment. 

 The work has a full index. 



Journals of the Board of Regents. — Another volume of the history of 

 the Institution has been compiled by Mr. Rhees, containing the journal 

 of proceedings of the Board of Regents from its first meeting, Septem- 

 ber 12, 184G, to January 20, 1870, together with the reports of the execu- 

 tive, building, and special committees for the same period. The eulo- 

 gies on deceased members of the Board and distinguished collaborators 

 of the Institution are given, and also a full account of the Bache scien- 

 tific fund, the Tyndall trust, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Toner lectures, 

 Hamilton bequest, the report of the committee of the board on the in- 

 vention of the electro -magnetic telegraph, the report of the examination 

 of Professor Henry by the English scientific commission, statistical 

 tables, and valuable information relative to the history and operations 

 of the Institution. 



Toner lectures. — The seventh Toner lecture has been published by the 

 Institution, and is a concise and interesting presentation of" The nature 

 of reparatory inflammation in arteries after ligature, compressure and 

 torsion," by Dr. Edward O. Shakespeare, of Philadelphia, delivered in 

 Washington, June 27, 1878. The bleeding of wounds afresh has formed 

 a favorite theme of study from time immemorial ; its nature and the most 

 efficient means for its arrest have drawn to it the attention of physicians 

 in all ages. Dr. Shakespeare gives an epitome of the successive efforts 

 made by skilled hands to stay the subsequent bleeding of wounds and 

 amputations, from the first recorded authority, Jean Louis Petit, in 

 1731-32, to date; this valuable summary is followed by one of the prev- 

 alent opinions in regard to the question, and he then sketches,in minute, 

 succinct detail, his own personal observations. This concluding chapter 

 is illustrated by four carefully prepared plates. 



Monograph of Chitonidce. — Reference has been made in previous re- 

 ports to a monograph of the Chitonidce prepared by Dr. Philip P. Car- 

 penter, of Montreal, with a view to publication by the institution. 



At Dr. Carpenter's death, this manuscript, in a still unfinished (condi- 

 tion, was discovered to eonsisi largely of notes and memoranda, written 

 in a peculiar and antiquated short-hand, with which no one in this coun- 

 try was familiar. The skeleton of classification was almost completed, 

 but the details in regard to particular species were often deficient or 



