490 CONTENTS. 



Page. 

 Report of the Assistant Secretary — Continued. 



E. Entries in museum record books, 1865-'66-'67 73 



F. Distribution of duplicate specimens 72 



G. Additions to the collections in 1867 72 



List of Meteorological Stations and Observers 79 



Meteorological Material received during 1867 89 



Report of the Executive Committee 98 



Report of the Building Committee 102 



Report of the Architect 105 



Journal of Proceedings of the Board of Regents 108 



Report of Prof. Agassiz on use of the large hall 1 09 



Memorial to Congress 114 



Extracts from General Correspondence 116 



American Academy of Arts and Sciences 116 



George H. Knight 116 



E. C. Bolies, Portland Society of Natural History 116 



Josiah Goodwin, Bath Society for Agriculture, Arts, «&c 117 



Dr. Brehm, Zoological Gardens, Hamburg 118 



Chicago Academy of Sciences 118 



W. B. Taylor 119 



Count de Lulk, St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences 120 



H. Zisgenbals 121 



W. Alfred Lloyd 121,122 



Museum of Natural History, Greece 124 



' Prof. Laboulaye 124 



Dr. Lindhagen, Academy of Sciences, Stockholm 125 



John Gould 125 



S. P. Maybr/ry 125 



L. Pratt, University of Costa Rica 128 



Biographical Notice of Charles Coffin Jewett, by R. A. Guild 128 



Biographical Notice of William Henry Harvev, by Asa Gray 131 



GENERAL APPENDIX. 



Memoir of Legendre, by M. Eli^ de Beaumont 137 



Memoir of Peltier, by F. A. Peltier 158 



Appendix to memoir of Peltier 173 



Royal Institution of Great Britain, History of, by Ed. Mailly 203 



Michael Faraday, his Life and Works, by Prof. De la Rive 227 



The Jussieus and the Natural Method, by M. Flourens 246 



Natural History of Organized Bodies, by M. Marey 277 



On the Electrical Currents of the Earth, by Charles Matteucci 305 



Considerations on Electricity 313 



Electricity— Account of lightning discharges: 



General G. W. Dodge 318 



General O. M. Poe 319 



Professor John C. Cresson 319 



Henry Haas 310 



H. J.Kron 319 



B. F. Mudge 320 



New Haven Journal 320 



Dr. Samuel D. Martin 320 



G.Wright 321 



Charles C. Boerner 321 



W. S. Oilman 322 



Queries about Expression for Anthropological Inquiry, by Charles Darwin. 324 



