GENERAL APPENDIX 



SMITHSONIAN REPOET FOR 1877. 



The object of this appendix is to illnstrate the operations of the Institntion by 

 reports of lectnres and extracts from correspondence, as well as to fumisli information 

 of a character snited especially to the observers and other persons interested in the 

 promotion of knowledge. 



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