36 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



regarded as forming Volume IV of the series thus far attempted: 

 Volume I being tables of the Specific Gravities of bodies, and also of 

 their Boiling and Melting Points ; Volume II, tables of the Specific Heats 

 of bodies ; and Volume III, tables of Heat Expansion of bodies. All 

 three volumes were compiled by Prof. F. W. Clarke of the University of 

 Cincinnati. 



The Toner Lectures. — On the 13th of April, 1872, a deed of conveyance 

 of several pieces of property in Washington, with money and other 

 securities amounting in value to $3,000, was made by Dr. Joseph M. 

 Toner, of this city, to five trustees, instituting the Toner lectures, and 

 establishing a permanent and increasing fund for their support and con- 

 tinuance annually. 



The trustees named in the deed were the Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution (then Prof. Joseph Henry), the Surgeon-General of the United 

 States Army (then J. K. Barnes, M. D.),*the Surgeon General of the 

 United States Navy (then J. M. Foltz, M. D.), the president of the Med- 

 ical Society of the District of Columbia (then Grafton Tyler, M. D.). 



The interest of this fund was set apart to be applied for annual 

 memoirs or essays relative to some branch of medical science, each to 

 contain some new truth fully established by experiment or observation ; 

 no such memoir or lecture to be given to the world under the name of 

 the "Toner Lectures" without having first been critically examined and 

 approved by competent persons selected by the trustees. 



In accordance with this trust, arrangements were made for the deliv- 

 ery of annual lectures on subjects relative to medical science, and the 

 Smithsonian Institution undertook their publication in its series of Mis- 

 cellaneous Collections. The following is a list of the lectures published 

 up to 1880, and already described in previous reports: I. On the 

 Structure of Cancerous Tumors and the Mode in which adjacent parts 

 are invaded. By Dr. J. J. Woodward. Published November, 1873, 44 

 pp., 8vo. II. Dual Character of the Brain. By Dr. C. E. Brown-Se- 

 quard. Published January, 1877, 25 pp., 8vo. III. Strain and Over- 

 Action of the Heart. By Dr. J. M. Da Costa. Published August, 1874, 

 32 pp., 8vo. IV. A Study of the Nature and Mechanism of Fever. By 

 Dr. Horatio C. Wood. Published February, 1875, 48 pp., 8vo. V. On 

 the Surgical Complications and Sequels of Continued Fevers. By Dr. 

 William W. Keen. Published April 1877, 72 pp., 8vo. VI. On Subcu- 

 taneous Surgery : Its principles, and its recent extension in Practice. 

 By William Adams, M. D., F. E. C. S. Published May, 1877, 15 pp., 

 Svo. VII. The Nature of Eeparatory Inflamation in Arteries after Lig- 

 ature, Acupressure, and Torsion. By Dr. Edward O. Shakespeare. Pub- 

 lished April, 1879, 71 pp., 8vo. And lastly, during the past year : VIII. 

 Suggestions for the Sanitary Drainage of Washington City. By George 

 E. Waring, jr. Published June, 1880, 23 pp., 8vo. 



This last lecture forms No. 349 of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Col- 



