CONTENTS. 



TJEPORT OF THE SECKETAEY. 



rAOE. 



Letter of Professor Henry to Congress 3 



Letter of Chancellor and Secretary, submitting Report of 1865 4 



OfQcers 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 1865 13 



Report of the Assistant Secretary, Prof. Baird, for 1865 75 



Statistics of international exchange « 75 



Additions to the collections 84 



Distribution of duplicate specimens 85 



Donations to the museum in 1865 86 



Addresses of foreign institutions 89 



List of Meteorological Stations and Observers „ 92 



Meteorological Material Received during 1865 101 



Report of the Executive Committee 107 



Report of the Building Committee Ill 



Journal of Proceedings of the Board of Regents , 115 



Extracts from the Correspondence op the Institution 12'2 



Eulogy on Gen. Joseph G. Totten, U. S. A., by Gen. J. G. B^vrnard, U. S. A. 137 



GENERAL APPENDIX. 



Memoir op Ducrotay de Blainville, by M. Flourens 175 



Report on the Transactions of the Society of Physics and Natural 



History of Geneva, from July, 18G3, to June, 1864, by Dr. Chossat 189 



Report on the Transactions of the Society of Physics and Natur^u. 



History of Geneva, from July, 1864, to June, 1865, by M. E. Plantamour.. 200 

 The Aurora Borealis, or Polar Light ; its Phenomena and Laws, by Prof. 



Elias Loomis 203 



THE SENSES.— Sense of Feeling 249 



Sense of Smell 276 



Electro-Physiology ; a course of lectures by Prof Carlo Matteucci 291 



Palafittes or Lacustrian Constructions of the Lake of Neuchatel, by 



E. Desor 346 



Experimental and Theoretical Rese.irches on the Figures of Equilibrium 

 of a Liquid ILiss withdrawn from the Action of Gravity, &c., by J. 



Plateau 409 



Outline of a Systematic Review of the Class of Bipeds, by Prof. W. Lillje- 



BORG 434 



PRIZE QUESTIONS.— Royal Danish Society of Sciences 449 



Imperl\l Academy of Sciences of Vienna 450 



Pontifical Academy of the Nuovi Lincei 450 



Royal Scientific and Literary Institute of Lom- 



BARDY 451 



Imperial Society of Science, Agriculture, and Arts 



OF Lille; 1866 453 



Dunkirk Society for the Encouragement of Sci- 

 ences, Letters, and Arts 460 



. Metric System of "Weights and Measures, with tables, by Prof. H. A. Newton 462 



