CONTENTS OF REPORT FOR 1872. 



Page. 



Order of Congress to print the report 2 



Letter from 1 lie Secretary submitting repoit to Clongress ^5 



List of regents, committees, and members ex-offivto of the institution 5 



Officers of the Institution 



Programme of organization of the Institution 7 



Eepout of Pkokessor Hexhy, Skcketauy 13 



Review of past history 13 



Terms, increase and diffusion of Icnowhnlge, delined 13 



Personal history of appointnu'iit and ])olicy 14 



Plan of original research 11 



Division of income between active operations and local objects 15 



Library of Congress l^ 



Improvement of public grounds ll> 



Building should be imrchased by Congress Ifi 



National Museum should be established ir> 



Gallery of art, established by Mr. Corcoran 10 



Success of plans adopted 17 



Plan of organization of Instituticni 17 



Means for promoting natural history IB 



Promotion of anthropology 18 



Restriction of expenditures to the income 19 



Finances 19 



Publications — general account 5iO 



Publications in 1872 21 



Exchanges -^0 



Library 32 



Work done in the Institution and in connection with other establishments ... 35 



Meteorology 37 



Miscellaneous : researches, franking, bequests, &c 40 



Catllu Indian gallery 41 



National Museum 42 



Additions to in 1872, in geographical order 43 



Systematic summary 47 



Work done in the museum , 49 



Distribution of specimens 50 



Mineralogical collection 52 



Notes relative to George Catliu 53 



Appendix to the Repop.t of thic Secket.vuy 55 



Entries in museum record-books in 1871 and 1872 55 



Distribution of duplicate specimens to end of 1872 55 



Additions to the collections in 1872 5G 



Statistics of literary and scientific exchanges 02 



Meteorological stations and observers 03 



REPOirr OF the E.\ecutive Cojimittee 74 



Statement of the fund 74 



Receipts from Smithson fund 75 



