462 INDEX. 



Page. 



Petroleum. History of 319 



Planets, small, betwQ^n Mars and Ju^yter 199 



Prentiss, D. Webster, on the birds of the District of Columbia 399 



Printing. Amount of, for the Institution during 1861 49 



Prize questions of scientific societies 422 



Programme of organization 7 



Publications. Accoimt of. - 16 



Smithsonian, in 1861, List of 68 



Receipts and expenditures during 1861 88 



Recommendation of Shea's Indian Linguistics 107 



Regents of the Institution. List of — -- 5 



Journal of proceedings of _ 92 



Changes in the Board of 92 



Report of the Executive Committee for 186 1 _ - 88, 93 



Report of the Secretary for 1861.. 13 



Approved by the Board --. 93 



Reports. Account of and number of copies printed 32 



Rules for distribution of - 32 



Resolutions of the Board of Regents — 



On report of Executive Committee 93 



On report of the Secretary 93 



On death ofC. C. Felton 94,109 



On death of S. A. Douglas 94,117 



Relative to money from Madame La Batut -• 97 



Referring Dr. Hayes's manuscript and collections to Dr. Bache 97 



Thanks to Hamburg American Packet Company for free freight .., 98 



Resolution of the Senate to print extra copies of the Report 2 



Rock oil. History of 319 



Rogers, Fairman. Lectures on the construction of bridges . 125 



Root, 0. Letter of thanks for shells 101 



Ross, Bernard R. Explorations and collections by 40, 60 



Royal Academy of Moral and Political Science of Madrid. Letter from, proposing 



exchanges . 100 



Royal Academy of the Netherlands. Prize questions of 453 



Royal Horticultural Society of London. Letter from, granting journals of, to 



American institutions 104 



Rules for distribution of annual reports 32 



Relative to collections of natural history . . 41 



Rupert's Land, circular of the Institute of 105 



Riitimeyer, Dr. L. On the fauna of middle Europe during the stone age 361 



Saint Hilaire, Geoffroy. Memoir of, by Flourens 161 



St. Louis. Ancient mounds near 386 



Schott, Charles A. I)iscus.sion of McClintock's observations, by 18 



Scientific societies. Prize questions of 422 



Scintillation of the stars. Directions for observing 220 



