KEPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



59 



Numher of societies sending their j^'f^^^ications in exchange to the Smithsonian 



Institution. 



Germany 



Great Britain and Ireland 



France 



United States ■ 



Italy 



Holland ■ 



Russia 



Switzerland 



Canada ■ 



Belgium ■ 



Australia 



Denmark • 



Sweden 



Hindostan 



Norway 



Spain 



Cuba 



334 



194 



113 



100 



70 



48 



46 



35 



20 



19 



15 



13 



12 



11 



9 



7 



6 



East Indies • • • 



Chile 



Portugal . . . . . 



Turkey 



Mauritius • • • • 



Africa 



China ■ 



Brazil 



Greece 



Egypt 



Bogota 



Buenos Ayres 



Jamaica 



Mexico 



Trinidad .... 



Making in all 



1,081 



To the list of correspondents during the past year we may add the 

 Institute of Egypt, founded at Alexandria, in 1859, from which we 

 have received the first volume of its transactions and several numbers 

 of its proceedings. These works form, as it were, an epoch in the 

 history of modern civilization, which, originally cradled in the valley 

 of the Nile, now returns, after having changed the condition of 

 western Europe, to the place of its birth, destined, we trust, to rouse 

 from its long apathy "the country in which Pythagoras courted 

 wisdom and Herodotus unveiled the sources of history." A library 

 and collections have been formed, which are rapidly increasing, and 

 which even now it is stated are capable of rendering essential service 

 to the explorers of the valley of the Nile. Although the French lan- 

 guage has been adopted for the reports and also for correspondence 

 between the members of the society and the learned institutions of 

 the v/est and east, yet the contributions of authors are presented in 

 their original form and style, and hence the present volume includes 

 memoirs in French, Italian, Greek, and Arabic, with illustrations in 

 the hieroglyphic, Coptic, and Hebrew. To some of these memoirs, 

 explanations, rather than strict translations, are appended. 



