466 INDEX. 



Page. 



Physics, Illustrations of the Contractile Force 210 



Capillary Attraction 210 



Chemical Attractio# - 215 



Elasticity 216 



Physics, Report on the Recent Progress of, by Dr. Mullcr 357 



Pope, Captain J., Exploration by 49 



Prescott, Canada West, Indian Eemains at 271 



Programme of Organization - 7 



Publications during 1856 24 



Publications, Number of Scientific 20 



Publications, Professor Baird's Report on 47 



Railroad Route Surveys, List of all made by the United States 62 



Receipts and Expenditures - — '^ 



Recent Progress in Physics - - 357 



Regents of the Institution - - 5 



Regents, Journal of Proceedings of - - 86 



Reid, Dr. D. B. , Lectures on Architecture, Ventilation, &c. , (see Architecture) 147 



Report of the Building Committee 84 



Report of Committee on Finance relative to investment 86,88 



Report of the Executive Committee - - 78 



Report of recent progress in Physics. (See Electricity) -- 357 



Pieport of the Senate Judiciary Committee - 12 



Report of the Secretary - 17 



Report on Public Libraries - 33 



Reports on the Progress of Knowledge - 32 



Researches, Chemical and Physiological, by Dr. Jos. Jones 24 



Review of history of the Institution - 17 



Rhees, "W. J., Report on Public Libraries 33 



Eiggs & Co. , Funds for current expenses deposited -with - -- 89 



Ringgold, Capt., Expedition by 53 



Eodgers, Capt. , Expedition by - - ♦ ^3 



Runlile, J. D., Account of the Astronomical Tables by ~ 27 



Samuels, E., Explorations by, in California , - ---- 52 



Sawkins, Jas. G., Drawings of Mitla remains by 32 



Sawkins, Jas. G. and G. P. Wall, Geology of Tiinidad 281 



Secretary's Report relative to investments 88 



Scientific Publications of the Institution 20 



Senate, Report of Judiciary Committee of - 12 



Sharpless, Townsend, Report on Phonography 280 



Sidonian Saixophagus, Account of inscription on, &c -- 39 



Small wood. Dr. Charles, Observatory at Montreal 311 



Somatology, Lectures on - -- -- 1^2 



Sound, Experiments on -- 223 



Specimens, Systematic Index to ^° 



Stanley's Collection of Indian Portraits ^^ 



Stimpson, William, Collections by - - - 53 



State Stocks purchased for the Institution 88 



Stocks ordered to be purchased - 87 



