CONTENTS. 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



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Resolution to print extra copies of the Report 2 



Letter from the Secretary to Congress 3 



Letter from the Chancellor and Secretary 4 



Officers and Regents of the Institution 5 



Members ex officio and honorarj' members of the Institution 6 



Programme of Organization 1 7 



Report of Professor Henry, Secretary. (For 18(31.) IS 



Report of Professor Baird, Assistant Secretary. (For 1861.) 49 



List of Donations to the Museum 64 



List of Smithsonian Publications during 1861 68 



List of Smithsonian Lectures 68 



List of Meteorological Stations and Observers 69 



List of Meteorological Contributions 80 



List of Engravings presented to the Institution 86 



Report of the Executive Committee 88 



Journal of the Board of Regents, from' January 15 to May 1, 1862 92 



Eulogy of Dr. C. C. Felton 109 



Eulogy of Hon. S. A. Douglas 117 



GENERAL APPENDIX. 



LECTURES. On the Construction of Bridges, by Prof. F. Rogers 125 



On the Relations of Time .\nd Space, by Prof. S. Alexander 140 



On Arctic Explorations, by Dr. I. I. Hayes 149 



MEMOIR OP GEOFFROY SAINT HILAIRE. By M. Flourens 161 



THE SUN : Its Chemical Analysis. By Abguste Laugel 175 



PROGRESS OF ASTRONOMICAL PHOTOGRAPHY. By Dr. Lee 191 



SMALL PLANETS BETWEEN MARS AND JUPITER. By Prof. Lespiault 199 



SCINTILLATION OF THE STARS. By Cn. Dufour 220 



SYNTHETICAL STUDIES AND EXPERIMENTS ON METAMORPHISM AND ON 



THE FORMATION OF CRYSTALLINE ROCKS. By M. Daubree 228 



REPORT ON NITRIFICATION. By Dr. B. F. Craig 305 



NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF PETROLEUM OR ROCK OIL. By J. Sterry Hunt. 319 



EXPLOSIBILITY OF COAL OILS. By Z. Allen 330 



DESTRUCTIVE EFFECT OF IRON RUST 343 



