TABLE OF CONTENTS/ 



ARTICLE I. Introduction. Pp. 16. 

 Advertisement 



List of Officers of the Smithsonian Institution 

 Table of Contents 



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ARTICLE II. North American Oology. By Thomas M. Brewer, M. D. Part I., Rap- 

 tores and Pissirostres. Pp. 140, and five plates. (Published in a separate 

 memoir, June, 1857.) 



ARTICLE III. An Account op the Total Eclipse of the Sun on September 7, 1858, as 

 observed near Olmos, Peru. By Lieut. J. M. Gilliss. Pp. 22, and one 

 plate. (Published April, 1859.) 



ARTICLE IV. Discussion of the Magnetic and Meteorological Observations made at 

 the Girard College Observatory, Philadelphia, in 1840, 1841, 1842, 

 1843, 1844, and 1845. Part I. Investigation of the eleven year period in the 

 Amplitude of the Solar-diurnal variation, and of the Disturbances of the Mag- 

 netic Declination. By A. D. Bache, LL. D. Pp.22. (Published November, 

 1859. 



ARTICLE V. BIeteorological 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. 120. (Published November, 1859.) 



ARTICLE VI. The Coleoptera of Kansas and Eastern New Mexico. By John L. 

 Le Conte, M. D. Pp. 66, and three plates. (Published December, 1859.) 



Each memoir is separately paged and indexed. 



