CONTENTS OF REPORT FOR 1872. 



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Order of Congress to print the report 2 



Letter from tlie Secretary submitting report to Congress 3 



List of regents, committees, and members cx-offieio of the institution 5 



Olificers of the lustitntion 6 



Programme of organization of the Institution 7 



Report of Professor Henry, Secretary 13 



Review of i)ast history 13 



Terms, increase and diffusion of knowledge, defined 13 



Personal history of appointment and policy 14 



Plan of original research 14 



Division of income between active operations and local objects 15 



Library of Congress 15 



Improvement of public grounds 1(5 



Building should be purchased by Congress 16 



National Museum should be established IG 



Gallery of art, established by Mr. Corcoran 16 



Success of plans adopted 17 



Plan of organization of Institution 17 



Means for promoting natural history 18 



Promotion of anthropology 18 



Restriction of expenditures to the income 19 



Finances 19 



Publications — general account 20 



Publications in 1872 21 



Exchanges 30 



Library - 32 



Work done in the Institution and in connection with other establishments ... 35 



Meteorology 37 



Miscellaneous : researches, franking, bequests, &c 40 



Catlin Indian gallery 41 



National Museum 42 



Additions to in 1872, in geographical order 43 



Systematic summary 47 



Work done in the museum 49 



Distribution of specimens 50 



Mineralogical collection 52 



Notes relative to George Catlin 53 



Appendix to the Report of the Secretary 55 



Entries in museum record-books in 1871 and 1872 55 



Distribution of duplicate specimens to end of 1872 55 



Additions to the collections in 1872 56 



Statistics of literary and scientific exchanges 62 



Meteorological stations and observers 63 



Report of the Executive Committee 74 



Statement of the fund 74 



Receipts from Smithson fund 75 



