36 EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF 



REPORT OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY IN CHARGE 

 OF PUBLICATIONS, EXCHANGES, AND NATURAL HIS- 

 TORY. 



Sir : I herewith present to you the report of o|Jferations for the year 

 1853, in the departments assigned to my superintendence. 



I. Publications. 



During the year 1853, a much larger amount of matter has been 

 printed and published by the Smithsonian Institution than in any year 

 since tlie commencement of its operations. Two volumes of" the quarto 

 series have been completed, of which one has been distributed and 

 the other is nearly ready. The following list contains tiie titles of the 

 papers in these volumes. 



List of Memoirs in Vol. F, Smithsonian Contributions. 



1. Introduction ; pp. IG. 



2. A Flora and Fauna within living animals. B}^ Joseph Leidy, M. D. ; 



pp. 68, and ten plates. 



3. Memoir on the Extinct Species of American Ox. By Joseph 



Leidy, M. D. ; pp. 20, and five plates. 



4. Anatomy of the Nervous System of Rana Fipiens. By Jefilies Wy- 



man, Isl. D. ; pp. 52, and two plates. 



5. Nereis Boreah-Americana, or Contributions to the History of the 



Marine Alg.-v of North America. By William Henry Harvey, 

 M. D., M. R. I. A ; Part II. Rhodospermea^ ; pp. 262, and twenty- 

 four plates. 



6. PlantuR Wrigljtiana.' Texano-Neo-Mexican;* ; Part 11, x\n Account of 



a Collection of Plants, made by Charles Wright, A. M., in West- 

 ern Texas, New Mexico, and Sonora, in the years 1851 and 1852. 

 By Asa Gray, M. D. ; pp. 120, and ti^ur plates. 



Vol. VI, Smithsonian Contributions. 



1. Introduction ; pp. 16. 



2. Plantar Fremontian;e, or Description of Plants collected in Califor- 



nia by Col. J. C. Fremont. By John Torrey, F. L. S. ; pp. 24, 

 and ten plates. 



3. (Observations on the Batis Maritima of Linnaais. l>y John Torrey, 



F. L. S. ; pp. 8, and one plate. 



4. On the DarUngtonia, Californica, a new Pitcher Plant from Northern 



Cahfornia. B}^ John Torrey, F. L. S. ; pp. 8, and one plate. 



5. Synopsis of the Marine Invertebrata of Grand Manan, or the Region 



about the Ba}^ of Fundy. By William Stimpson , pp. G^, and 

 three plates, 

 (j. On the Winds of the Northern Hemisphere. By James H. Coffin, 

 Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, in Lafayette 

 College ; pp. 200, and thirteen plates. 



