CONTENTS 



EEPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Page. 



Letter from the Secretary to Congress 3 



Letter from the Chancellor and Secretary 4 



Officers and Regents of the Institution ._ _ 5 



Members ex officii and Honorary Members of the Institution 6 



Programme of Organization 7 



Report of Prof. Henry for 185S_. 1,3 



Report of Prof. Baird 44 



List of Meteorological Stations and Observers 63 



Report of the Executive Committee _ 74 



Journal of the Board of Regents, from January 19, 1859, to Febiuary 15, 1859.. 78 



appendix- 

 Lectures on Astronomy by Prof. Alexis Caswell ....__ .. 85 



Memoir of Pkikstley by M. Cuvier, translated by C. A. Alexander 138 



LvsTRUCTioNS in reference to collecting nests and eggs of North American Birds.. 153 



For collecting Insects , 158 



Coleoptera, by Dr. John Le CoNTE 160 



Htmenoptera 164 



Orthoitera 164 



Hemiptera - 165 



NEUROrXERA... -- 166 



Diptera, by B. Osten Sacken _ 167 



Lkpidoptera, by B. Clemens 173 



An ACCOUNT of the Gra.ssiiopper.s and Locusts of America, condensed from an arti- 

 cle by Alex. S.Taylor 200 



On the means of destroying the Grassooppkr, by Y. Motsohulsky. Translated 



from the Rus.sian by Prof. W. W. Turner 214 



Vegetable Colonization of the British Isles of Shetland, Faroe, and Iceland, 



by Cn. Martins : 229 



On the Causes which limit Vegetable species towards the North in Europe, and 



similar regions, by Adolpue de Candollk 237 



On the DisTRiBin-iON of the Forests and Treis of North America, with notes on 



its Physical Geography, by J. G. Cooper, M. D » 246 



List of Birds of Nova Scotia. Compiled from notes by Lieut. Blakiston, R. A., 



and Lieut. Bi.and, R. E., made in 1852-'55; by Prof. J. R. Willis, of Halifax.. 280 

 List of BiEDS of Bermuda, by Lieut. Bland, R. E. Communicated by John R. 



Willis 286 



