502 CATALOGUE OF PUBLICATIONS. 



76. Smithsouiiiu Contribution to Knowledge. Yol VIL 1855. 4to., 



pp. 260, 74 wood cuts, 72 plates, 2 maps. 



CONTEXTS. 



CiiAPPELSMiTH, J. Tornado near New Harmony, Ind. No. 59. 

 Bailey, J. W. New species and localities of microscopic organisms. No. 63. 

 Lapham, I. A, Antiquities of Wisconsin. No. 70. 

 Leidy, J. Extinct slotli tribe of Nortli America. No. 72. 

 Publications of societies and periodicals in Smithsonian Library. Parti. 

 No. 73. 



77. Tenth Aniiual Eeport of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 



Institution, for the year 1855. Thirty-fourth Congress, first ses- 

 sion, Senate Mis. Doc. 73. House of Representatives Mis. Doc. 

 113. 185C. 8vo., pp. 440, 79 wood-cuts. 



CONTEXTS. 



Eeport of Prof. J. Henry, and Proceedings of the Board. 



Bairo, S. F. Eeport on publications, exchanges, museum, and explora- 

 tions. 



List of meteorological observers. 



Correspondence : 



Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y. Examination of Spencer's Tele- 

 scope. • 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, Mass. Thanks 



to Smithsonian Institution for Exchanges. 

 Stone, Wm. J. On plaster casts of antique and modern statues, etc. 

 Illinois State Board of Education. Meteorological system for 

 every State. 



Butler, A. P. Eeport of Senate Judiciary Committee on the Mauagement 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, February G, 1855. 



Harvey, W. H. Lecture on marine algae. 



Morris, J. G. Lecture on natural history as applied to farming and gar- 

 dening. 



Morris, J. G. Lecture on insect instincts and transformations. 



Chace, G. I. Lecture on oxygen and its combinations. 



Smith, J. L. Lectures on meteoric stones. 



Snell, E. S. Lecture on planetary disturbances. 



Logan, T. M. On the Climate of California. 



Morris, O. W. ; Henry, J. Quantity of rain at different heights. 



GuYOT, A. ; Henry, J. Directions for meteorological observations. 



Henry, J. Earthquake directions. 



Henry, J. Aurora directions. 



Green, J. Account of a new barometer. 



Henry, J. Eegistration of periodical phenomena. 



MasteriMax, S. Observations on thunder and lightning. 



Letterman, J. Sketch of the Navajo Indians. 



Clingmax, T. L. Topography of Black Mountain, North Carolina. 



RoBixsox, E. ; Ludewig, H. E. ; Squier, E. G. ; Murphey, H. C. ; Hodg- 

 son, W. B. ; Irving, W. ; Prescott, W. H. ; Sparks, J. ; Bancroft, 

 G. ; Hawks, F. L, Communications relative to publication of Spanish 

 works on New Mexico, by Buckingham Smith. 



MiJLLER, J. Eeport on recent progress in physics— Galvanism. 



