34 TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF 



One lecture by Dr. D. Brainard, of Cliicago, Illinois, " On the 

 nature and cure of the bite of serpents, and the wounds of poisoned 

 arrows." 



Four lectures by Hon. Geo. P. Marsh : 



1st. "Constantinople and the Bosphorus." 



2d. Do. do. do. 



3d. "The Camel." 



4th. "Environs of Constantinople. — Political and military import- 

 ance of the position of that Capital. — The reform system in Tur- 

 key." 



One lecture by Dr. PiOBT. Baird : "History of the war between 

 Eussia and Turkey, with notices of those countries." 



Nine lectures by Prof. Asa Gray, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 

 " On Vegetation :" 



1. " Development from the seed and from buds, root, stem, and 

 leaves. 



2. Aerial^ ephiphytic, and parasitic vegetation. 



3. Morphology of branches. — Subterranean vegetation. — Adapta- 

 tion of bulb-bearing plants and the like to regions subject to^ a sea- 

 son of drought ; of forests and the like to regions of equable distribu- 

 tion of rain. — Anatomy and action of leaves. 



4. How plants grow. — Anatomical structure. — Development from 

 the cell. — Gradation from plants of one cell to the completed type of 

 vegetation. 



5. Wood. — The tree. — Life and duration of plants. — The individual 

 in its various senses. — The tree a community as well as an indi- 

 vidual. 



6. How plants multiply in numbers. — The flower. 



7. Fruit and seed. — Fertilization and the formation of the em- 

 bryo. — Reproduction in flowerless plants. 



8. Movements and directions assumed by plants generally.— The 

 relations of vegetation to the sun. 



9. Relations of vegetation to the sun continued. — The plant con- 

 sidered as the producer of food and a medium of force." 



One lecture by Rev. J. S. Fletcher, on " Brazil." 

 Two lectures by Hon. Henry Barnard, of Connecticut: "Recent 

 educational movements in Great Britain." 

 Two lectures by Rev. E. A. Washburne : 



1. "Confucius, or the Chinese mind." 



2. "The Chinese war." 



Two lectures by Prof. Joseph Lovering, of Cambridge, Massachu- 

 setts : "The progress of electricity." 



One lecture by Oliver P. Baldwin, esq., of Richmond, Va.: "Na- 

 tional characteristics." 



One lecture by Dr. W. F. Channing, of Boston: "The American 

 fire alarm telegraph." 



Tbree lectures by Robert Russell, esq., of Scotland, on "Meteor- 

 ology." 



1«55-' 56. —Three lectures by Prof. E. S. Snell, of Amherst Col- 

 lege, Massachusetts, on "Architecture;" and one lecture on "Plane- 

 tary motion and disturbances." 



