X CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Appendix to the Eeport of the Secretary — Continued. 



Additiona to the collections of the National Museum 110 



Same received from the Berlin International Fisheries Exhibition 135 



Eeport of explorations in New Mexico and Arizona, by James Stevenson. .. 136 



Receipts and distribution of specimens 139 



The first decade of the United States Fish Commission, by G. B. Goode.... 140 



Special Report of the Executive Committee (on the Henry statue) 150 



Report of the Executive Committee for the year 1880 158 



Condition of the funds 158 



Receipts in 1880 - 159 



Expenditures in 1880 159 



Estimated receipts and expenditures for 1881 161 



National Museum, appropriations for, by Congress 161 



Journal of Proceedings of the Board of Regents 164 



Report of the National Museum Building Commission for 1880 167 



Report of the Suj)erintending Architects of the Museum Building 170 



II.— GENERAL APPENDIX. 



L— Record of recent scientific progress 181 



Introduction, by S. F. Baird 181 



Astronomy, by E. S. Holden 183 



Geology, by G. W. Hawes 221 



Physics, by G. F. Barker 235 



Chemistry, by G. F. Barker 289 



Mineralogy, G. W. Hawes - 299 



Botany, by W. G. Faiiow 313 



Zoology, by Theodore Gill 331 



Anthropology, by O. T. Mason. 391 



II. — Miscellaneous papers 403 



Bibliography of Anthropology, by O. T. Mason 403 



Abstracts of Anthropological correspondence 441 



Report on the Luray Cavern 449 



Discussion of Professor Suell's barometric observations, by F. H. Loud .... 461 



Investigation of illuminating materials, by Joseph Henry .• — . 483 



Synopsis of the scientific writings of William Herschel, by E. S. Holden, 



and C. S. Hastings 509 



Reports of astronomical Observatories 623 



Index to the volume 741 



