3() REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



compiled a catalogue of scientitic periodicals of the world. Many of 

 the results of his labors were liy him freely presented to the Smith- 

 sonian Institution and were published in the series of Miscellaneous 

 Collections. 



Doctor Bolton was born in New York City January 28, 1843. He 

 graduated from Columbia College in 1862, and during the next four 

 years studied at Heidelberg and Berlin, in 18H6 receiving the degree 

 of Ph. D. at Gottingen. In 1875 he was assistant in the laboratory 

 of the Columbia School of Mines, in 1875 professor of chemistry at 

 the Woman's College of the New York Infirmary, from 1877 to 1887 

 professor of chemistry at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., when he 

 retired from teaching and devoted the remaining years of his life 

 chiefly to literary pursuits and to travel. For several years his winter 

 home was in Washington City. He was a member of the New York 

 Academy of Science (its president in 1803), of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, and one of the founders of the 

 American Folk Lore Society. In 1897 he was president of the Library 

 Association of Washington City; was president of the American 

 Chemical Society in 1900, and was also a member of man}^ other 

 learned bodies in Europe and the LTnited States, being a frequent 

 contributor to their literary exercises and published transactions. 



His varied contributions to contemporary literature cover more 

 than 200 titles, among which ma}' be mentioned The Scientific Corre- 

 spondence of Joseph Priestley; Counting-Out Rhymes of Children; 

 Catalogue of Scientific and Technical Periodicals, 1665-1897, and 

 Select Bibliography of Chemistry, 1492-1902. 



Respectfully submitted. 



S. P. Langlet, 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



