562 CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Appendix to the Report of the Secretary G5 



Government explonitious and surveys 65 



United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 



Prof. r. V. Hayden in charge 65 



United States Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, Lieut. 



George M. Wheeler in charge 77 



Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, 



by Prof. J. W. PoweU 79 



Entries in the record-hooks of the United States National Museum 82 



Distribution of dujdicate specimens 82 



Additions to the collections of the United States National Museum 83 



International Exhibition 1876 113 



Certificate of award 113 



Statistics of exchanges 113 



Boxes sent abroad 113 



Packages received from Europe 114 



Agents for transmission and distribution 123 



Acts and resolutions of Congress relative to the Smithsonian Institution 



and the National Museum 125 



Report of the Executi\':e Committee 126 



Condition of funds 126 



Receipts 127 



Expenditures - 127 



Hamilton bequest - 127 



Building 127 



General expenses 128 



Publications, researches, &c 128 



Repayments - 128 



Estimates - 129 



Estimated receipts 129 



Estimated appropriations 129 



National Museum 130 



Receipts 130 



Expenditures 130 



Summary 131 



Journal of Proceedings of the Board of Regents 133 



Biographical memoir of Joseph Henry, by Prof. Asa Gray 143 



GENERAL APPENDIX 178 



Condorcet: a Biography, by M. Arago 180 



Louis Agassiz : a Biographical Notice, by Ernest Favre 236 



Henry and the Telegraph, by William B. Taylor 262 



The Effect of Irritation of a Polarized Nerve — " PflUger's Electrotonus," by 



B. F. Lautenbach, M. D., Ph. D 361 



Researches upon Fever, by H. C. Wood, Jr., M. D 420 



Constants of Nature, by John Leconte 427 



List of apparatus relating to heat, light, electricity, magnetism, and sound, 



available for scientific researches involving accurate measurements 429 



Ornithological Exploration of the Caribbee Islands, by F. A. Ober 446 



Report of Explorations in Greenland, by L. Kumlien 452 



Researches in Sound, with special reference to Fog-Signaling, by Joseph 



Henry • 455 



