TABLE OF contents; 



ARTICLE I. Introduction. Pp. 16. 



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List of Officers of tbe Smitlisoniaii IiisliUitioi 

 Table of Contents . . . . 



ARTICLE II. Nereis Boee.\li-Amekic.\na, or Contributions to a History of the Ma- 

 rine Alg^ of North America. By W. H. Harvey, M. D., M. R. I. A. 

 Part III., ChlorospermeEe. Pp. 142, and fourteen plutcs. 



ARTICLE III. Magnetical Observations in the Arctic Seas. By Elisha Kent Kane, 

 M. D., U. S. N. Made during the second Grinnell Expedition in 

 Search of Sir John Franklin, in 1853, 1854, and 1855, at Van Rens- 

 selaer Harbor, and other points on the West Coast of Greenland. 

 Reduced and Discussed, by Charles A. Schott, Assistant U. S. Coast 

 Survey. Pp. '12, and one plate. 



Introductory Letter ....... v 



Section 1. Magnetic Declination, 1854 ..... 1 



2. Observations of the Magnetic Inclination, 1853, 1854, and 1855 21 



3. Observations of Magnetic Intensity, 1854 and 1855 . . 30 



ARTICLE IV. A Grammar and Dictionary of the Yoruba Language, with an intro- 

 ductory description of the Country and People of Yoruba. By tlie 

 Rev. T. J. BowEN, Missionary of the Southern Baptist Convention. Pp. 

 233, and one map. 



' Each memoir is separately paged and indexed. 



