INDEX. 



Page. 



Ability of the Individual to Promote Knowledge, Lecture on 207 



Aboriginal Monuments of New York 191 



Academy of Arts and Sciences, Report of. 148 



Accounts, new system of, introduced 235 



Achromatic Microscope ordered 146 



Achromatic Telescope purchased 163 



Active Operations, results of. 252, 231 



Act of Congress accepting Bequest of Smithson HI 



Act of Congress establishing the Smithsonian Institution 112 



Adams, John Quincy, Words of, respecting Plan 133 



Adams, Prof. C. B. , Appropriation to 245 



Adams, C. B., Exploration by 220 



Address on Smithsonian Institution 120 



Advantages of Publications 135 



Africa, Institutions in 49 



Agassiz, Prof. L. , Memoir by 172 



Agassiz, Prof. L., Lectures by 251, 207 



Agassiz, Prof. L., Troost's Memoir 213 



Agricultural Society, use of rooms granted to 7g 



Agriculture, Application of Chemistry to 180 



Air, Earth, Fire, Water, Lectures on 05] 



Airy, Prof., Accuracy of Epiiemeris of Neptune 221 



Alexander, Capt. B. S., appointed Architect g9 



Alexander, Prof. S., Lectures by 207 27 



Alps, The, Lecture on 230 



American Antiquarian Society 219 14 



American Antiquities 219, 203, 178, 172, 140, 14 



American Association, Committee of, on Extending Meteorological System 222 



American Board of Missions 214 



American Medical Association = I74 



American Philosophical Society 239 218 213 



American Sloths 240 



Analysis of Soils and Plants jgo 



Ancient Monuments 219 203 178 172 140 14 



Aneroid Barometer, Experiments on ^ I99 



Annals of Philosophy, Contributions to, by Smithson 110 



Antiquities of Wisconsin „ 220 14 



Apparatus 180, 145 



Appendix 105 



Appropriations for 1854 99 79 



Architecture of the Middle Ages, Lecture on 230 



Arctic Exploration, Lectures on 251 



