INDEX. 447 



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Pacific Mail Steamship Company, ITianks to. 80 



Panama Railroad Company, Thanks to.. 80 



Patent Oflice, Meteorological arrangement with.. 31 



Peirce's analytic mechanics 29 



Physical geography of North America, by Dr. J. G. Cooper 246 



Physical tables 28 



Physics, Report of recent progress in, by Miiller 372 



Priestley, Joseph, Memoir of ' 138 



Programme of organization 7 



Publications of Institution 17 



Publications during 1838 44: 



Rain tfnd snow gauges, Notes on, by R. H. Gardiner 432 



Raymond, C. H., Eclipse expedition 23,25 



Receipts and expenditures 74 



Regents of the Institution 5 



Journal of proceedings ^ ^ 78 



Report of the Secretary, 1858 _ ....^ 13 



For 1857 27 



Of Executive Committee .^ 74 



On atmospheric electricity, by M. F. Duprez 290 



Of recent progress in physics, bj' Dr. J, Miiller 372 



Resolution to print the Report 3 



Ritchie, James, account of earthquake of 1811 42 1 



River Kennebec, opening and closing of . . . 434 



Rivers, method of obtaining the amount of water in, by Captain A. A. Hum- 

 phreys .... . 438 



Royal Society, Index to Transactions 38 



Runkle, J. D., Mathematical monthly 29 



Sabine, General, Magnetic stations 35 



Letter relative to magnetic observations . 80 



Schicflfer, Dr. George C, Laboratory 36 



Translation of Miiller's report on electricity 372 



Schleiden, R , Letter from, relative to transportation 79 



Schott, C. A., Reduction of Kane's observations, by 18 



Shetland, Vegetable colonizixtion of 229 



Shumard, Dr. , Meteorology 34 



Smithsonian contributions. Vol. X 17 



Snow gages. Notes on, by W. E. Gyest 433 



Notes on, by R. H. Gardiner 432 



Solar eclipse of September 7, 1858 22 



Of March 15, 1858 28 



Solar heat 25 



Stanley gallery of Indian paintings 41 



Stations, Smithsonian meteorological C3 



Telegraphic '. 73 



Estimate of establishing meteorological 416 



Swallow, Prof., Meteorology 34 



Tables, Guyot's meteorological and physical 28 



