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No. 802. '' Proceedings of the Rojffiits, and lltspoit (tf tlie Exocntivc ('oniiiiittoe 

 for the year 1889-'90, together with acts of Congress for tlie year. (l'>oiu the 

 Smithsonian Report for 1890.) Octavo pamphlet of 32 pages. 



No. 386. "Report of S. P. Laugley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, i"or 

 the year ending Jnne 30, 1891." Octavo pamphlet of 63 i)ages. 



No. 837. "Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 showing th(! operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution to July 

 1S90." '{'ills volume contains the Journal of Proceedings of the Board of Regents 

 ar tiie annual meeting held January 8, 1890; the report of the Executive Com- 

 mittee of the Board ; acts and resolutions of Congress relative to the Institution, 

 for tlio year; and the Report of the Secretary of the Institution: followed by the 

 ''(Teneral A])pendix," in which are given the following papers: "The Squaring of 

 the Circle," by Herman Schnbert; "The Progress of Astronomy for the years 

 1889, 1890," by William C. Winlock; "MaWiematical Theories of the Earth," by 

 Robert S. Woodward; "Physical Structure of the Earth," by Henry Hennessy; 

 "Glacial Geology," by James Geikit^; "History of the Niagara River," by G. K. 

 Gilbert; "The Mediterranean, Physical and Historical," by SirR. L, Playfair; "Stan- 

 ley and the Map of Africa," by J. Scott Keltie; "Antarctic Exploration," by G. S. 

 ({riffirhs; "History of Geodetic Operaticms in Russia," by B. Witskowski and J. 

 Howard Gore; "Quartz Eib»',rs," by C. V. Boj's; "Ku-nigs's Researches on Musi- 

 cal Harmony and Timbre," l)y Sylvanus P. Thompson; "Tlie Chcnucal Problems of 

 I'o-day," by Victor Meyer; "The Pliotographic Image," by Rapluiel Mcldola; "A 

 Tropical Botanic Garden," by M. Trenb; "Temperatun; anil Life," by Henry de 

 Varigny; "Morphology of tlio Blood Corpuscles," by Charles S. Minot; "Weis- 

 uianu's Theory of Heredity," by George J. Romanes; "The Ascent of Man," by 

 I'ranlv Bakei; "The Antiquity of Man," by John Evans; "Primitive Home of 

 the Aryans," by A. H. Sayce; "The Prehistoric Rates of Italy," by Isaac Taylor; 

 "The Age of Bronze, in Egy]>t," by Oscar Montelius; "Progress of Anthropology in 

 1890," by Otis T. Mason; "A Primitive Urn Burial," by J. F. Snyder; "Manners and 

 (histoms of the Mohaves," liy (Jeorge A. Allien; "Criminal Anthro})ology," by 

 Tiiomas Wilson; "Color-vision and C!olor- blindness," by R. Brudcuell Carter; 

 "Techuology and CiA^lization," by F. Reulcaux ; "The Ramsden Dividing Engine," 

 l)y J. E. Watkius; "Memoir of Elias Loouiis," by 11. A. Newton; and "MeuH)ir 

 of William Kitchen Parker;" the whohi forming an octavo volume of xli-|-808 pages, 

 illustrated with 29 hgures and 26 plates. 

 Very rcs[»ectfully, 



Wm. B. Taylok, 



J'Jililor. 

 Jlr. .s. P. Lanui.kv, 



iSevrctari/ Sinilhxoinaii liinHtnlioii. 



