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Delafield, General Richard, acts as Regent 115, 116, 117, 118,119,121 



Plans for building by 19, 118 



Report of Building Committeo Ill 



Report of Executive Committee 107 



Department of Instruction, Canada. Letter from 132 



Desor, E., on Palafittes, or Lacustrian Constructions 346 



Detector for watchmen 19 



Distribution and use of specimens 63. 85 



Donations to museum in 1865 , 86 



Donnelly, lion. Ignatius. Letter referred by 125 



Douglas, Judge S. A. Resolution by 72 



Draper, Dr. Henry. Silvered glass telescope 23 



Dunkirk Society. Prizes offered by 460 



Electric phenomenon. Account of remarkable 123 



Electro-physiology. Lectures by Matteucci 291 



Employes of the Institution 71,72,73 



Engineer department, ileteorological system of 52 



Entomological Society of Philadelphia. Insects sent to 64 



Entomology. Smithsonian publications on 43 



Essex Institute. Synoj)sis of seals 63 



Espy, J. P. Meteorological labors 55 



Estimates of architect 114 



Ethnology. Smithsonian investigations 23, 45, 47, 50 



Ethnology 135 



Eulogy on Gen. Jos. G. Totten, by General J. G. Barnard 137 



Evans, Governor John. Letter from 122 



Exchanges. Account of 69,75 



Expenditures during 1865 107 



Expenditures on building for 1865 and 1866 113 



Experiments in laboratory 67 



Explorations 60,129,130 



Express lines. Transportation facilities rendered 69 



Farnsworth, Hon. J. F., acts as Regent 115,116,117,119 



Feilner, Captain, death of 60 



Fessenden, W. P., acts as Regent 116, 117 



Finances. State of 20,107 



Fire at the Institution. Account of 14, 111 



Fischer, C. Letter from 128 



Fitzroy, Admiral. Meteorological system of 54,56 



Fladgate, Clarke and Finch. Services rendered by 21, 109 



Flugel, Dr. F. Agent for exchange at Leipsic 74, 76 



Force, Wm. Q. Duties of 72 



Foreign institutions in coiTespondence with Smithsonian Institution 69 



Fortifications 139,143 



Fossil from Colorado sent by Governor Evans 122 



Foster, Hon. L. F. S., acts as Regent 115,116,119 



France. Meteorological system of 54,56 



Franklin, Benjamin, on passage of storms 55 



French system of weights and measures. 462 



Fund, Smithson. Account of 20, 107 



Garfield, Hon. J. A., acts as Regent 115,116,118,120 



Geological observations in China and Japan, by Pumpelly 36 



Geological Survey of Canada. Shells sent to 66 



