CATALOGUE OF PUBLICATIONS. 5oo 



246. Sniitbsouiau Contriiiutioiis to Knowledji'c. Vol. xviii. 1872. 



4to,, pp. G4(), 10 woodcuts, 5 plates, 3 cliails. 



CONTKNTS. 



SciiOTT, C. A. Tables of rain ami snow. No. •^22. 



Stock WELL, J. N. Si cnlar variations of tlie orbits of planets. No. 232. 

 IIaukness, W. Observations ou terrestrial magnetism. No. 2)59. 

 Fkurel, W. Converging series, expressing the ratio between the diameter 

 and the circumference of a circle. No. 23:5. 



247. Anaiigemeiit of the l^ainilios of Fishes, or Classes Pisces, Mar- 



sipobraiichii, and Leptocanlii. Ij.v Theodore Gill. Novem- 

 ber, 1872. 8vo., pp. 1)0. (M. C, xr ) 



248. On the Geolog:y of Lov.er Louisiana and the Salt Deposit on Petite 



Anse Island. By Eugene W. Hilgaed. June, 1S72. 4to., 

 pp. 38, 4 wood cuts, 2 plates. (S. C, xxiii.) 



249. Annual ['eport of the Board of Ixe.uents of the Smithsonian Insti- 



lution,l'()r the year 1871. Forty-second Congress, first session. 

 Senate Mis. Doc. Xo. 140. LS7;>, 8vo., pp. 473, 3 wood cuts. 



COXTKN'iS. 



Henry, J. Secretary's report of operations. 



Board ok Regents, Proceedings of. 



List of meteorological stations and observers. 



Meteorological material contributed to Smithsonian lustitntiou. 



Meteorological articles received by the Institution and deposited in the 



Library of Congress. Auroras, earthquakes, etc. 

 Dodge, N. S. Memoir of Sir John Frederick William Herschcl. 

 Ahago, it. Eulogy on Joseph Fourier. 

 Odling, W. Prof. Thomas Graham's scientific work. 

 Helaiiioltz, II. On the relation of the physical sciences to science in 



general. 

 KoRNiiUBER, G. A. Alternate generation and parthenogenesis in the ani- 

 mal l.iugdom. 

 Reichai:dt, W. Present state of our knowledge of cryptogamous plants. 

 Stockwell, J. N. Iveceut researches on the secular variations of the plan- 

 etary orbits. 

 De Forest, E. L. Methods of interpolation applicable to the graduation 



of irregular series, such as tables of mortality. Part t. 

 De Sal'ssuue, II. Report on the transactions of the Society of Physicg 



and Natural History of Geneva, from July, ISTO, to June, 1871. 

 Expedition toward the North Pole: 



Henry, J.; Hilgard, J. E. ; Newcomu, S. ; Baird, S. F. ; Meek, F. 

 B. ; Agassi/,, L. Scientitic instructions to Captain Hall. 

 Ethnology: 



Comfort, A. J. Indian mounds near Fort \Vadsworth, Dak. 



Berthoud, E. L. Antiquities oa the Cache la Poudre River, Vv''eld 

 County, Cob)rado Territory. 



Lyon, W. B. Anti(iuities in New Mexico. 



Spainiioir, J. M. Antiquities in Lenoir County, N. C. 



McCoNNELL, E. M. Account of the old Indian village, Kushkusli- 

 kee, near New Castle, Pa. 



Grossmann, F. E. Pima Indians o^' Arizona. 



