CONTENTS. 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Page. 



Letter from the Secretary to Congress 3 



Letter from the Chancellor .'ind Secretary 4 



Officer? and Regents of the Institution 5 



Members ex officio and Honorary members of the Institution 6 



Programme of organization 7 



Report of Professor Henry for 1859 13 



Report of Professor Baird 54 



List of Meteorological Stations and Observers 79 



Report of the Executive Committee 97 



Journal of the Roan! of Regents from January 18, 1860 101 



APPENDIX. 



Lectures on Agricultural Chemistry. By Professor S. W. Johnson 119 



Lectures on the Shells of the Gulf of < California. By Philip P. Carpenter 195 



Latest researches of M. M.kih.i r relating to the general movement of the stars arourrd a central point. 220 

 Report on the Transactions of the Society of Physics and Natural History of Geneva, from July, 1858, 



to June, 1859 By Professor Di la. Rive 234 



Present state of Ethnology in relation to the form of the human skull. B \ Retzics 251 



Memoir of Pyramos di Candolle. By M Flourens 271 



On the means which will be ivailnble lor correcting the measure of the sun's distance in iU<- next 



twenty five years. By the Astronomer. Royal 284 



Reports on the state of knowledge of Radiant Heat, made to the Briti-h Association in 1832, 1840, and 



1854 By I 1 298 



Description of the Magneti y at the Smithsonian Institution 385 



On the use of the Gal vai ictei is a measuring instrument. ByJ.C.P 396 



On Observation of Eanhquaki P By R. Mallet 408 



Description of Meten ents 434 



On filling Barometer Tub en 439 



Bj VV. VVdrdemann 440 



Account of the construction of a Standard Barometer, and description of tin apparatus and proci 



employed in the vi neters at the rCew Observatory. By John Welsh 441 



