CONTENTS. 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Letter of the Chancellor and Secretary to Congress 3 



Letter of the Secretary submitting Report for 18G3 4 



Officers and Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 5 



Members ex officio and honorary members of the Institution 6 



Programme of Organization 7 



Report of the Secretary, Prof. Henry, for 1863 ]3 



Report of the Assistant Secretary, Prof. Baird, for 18G3 44 



Statistics of international exchanges 45 



Donations to the museum in 1863 58 



List of Smithsonian publications in 1 863, and works in press .^ 62 



List of meteorological stations and observers 64 



Report of the Executive Committee 74 



Journal of Proceedings of the Board of Regents 77 



Extracts from Correspondence 80 



GENERAL APPENDIX. 



Lectures on the Principles of Linguistic Science, by Prof. W. D. Whitney. 1>5 



Memoir of C. F. BEAUTEMPS-BEAUPRfc, by M. Elie de Beaumont. 117 



Origin and History of the Royal Society of London, prepared by C. A. 



Alexander 137 



Modern Theory of Chemical Types, by Dr. Charles M. Wetherill 153 



Researches on the Phenomena which Accompany the Propagation of 



Electricity in Highly Rarefied Elastic Fluids, by Prof. A. de la Rive 169 

 Report on the Proceedings of the Society of Physics and Natural His- 

 tory OF Geneva, from July, 1862, to June, 1863, by Prof. Marcet 193 



Experimental and Theoretical Researches on the Figures of Equili- 

 brium OF a Liquid Mass withdrawn from the Action of Gravity, &c., 



by Piof. J. Plateau, (39 wood-cuts) 207 



History of Discovery Relative to Magnetism 286 



Recent Researches Relative to the Nebulae, by Prof. Gautier 299 



Figure of the E.\rth, by Sr. Miguel Merino 306 



Aeronautic Voyages performed with a View to the Advancement of 



Science, Account of, by Francis Arago 331 



Account of Balloon Ascensions, by James Glaisuer 349 



Account of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Californian Peninsula, 



by Baegert, translated by Prof. C. Rau 352 



ETHNOLOGY.— Account of Kicekken-Moedding in Nova Scotia, by J. M. 



Jones, of Halifax 370 



Abstract of the Fifth Report of Dr. Keller on Lacus- 



trian Settlements, by A. MoRLOT 372 



Agricultural Implements of the North Ajvierican Stone 



Period, by Cilvrles Rau, (2 wood-cuts) 379 



