TABLE OF CONTENTS.' 



AUTICLE I. Introduction. Pp. ir,. 

 Advertisement 

 List of Officers of the Smitl 

 Table of Contents 



^onian Institution 



AIITICLE II. Astronomical Observations in the Arctic Seas. l?y Elisua Kent 

 Kane, M. D., U. S. X. Made during the second Grinnell Expedition 

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

 Rensselaer II arbor and other points in' the vicinity of the North- 

 west Coast of Greenland. Reduced and discussed by Charles A. 

 Schott, Assistant U. S Coast Survey. Pp. 56, and one plate. (Pub- 

 lished May, ISfiO.) 



ARTICLE III. On Fluctuations of Level in the North American Lakes. I>y Charles 

 Whittlesey. Pp. 28, and two plates. (Published .Inly, ISfiO.) 



ARTICLE IV. Meteorological Observations made at Providence, R. I. Extending 

 over a period of twenty-eight years and a half, from December, 

 1831, to May, 1860. By Alexis Caswell, Professor of Natural Philo- 

 sophy and Theology in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. 

 Pp. 188. (Pnbli<;hed October, 1860 ) 



ARTICLE V. Meteorological Observations MADE near Washington, Ark. Extending 

 over a period of twenty- years, from 1840 to 1859 inclusive. By 

 Nathan D. Smith, M. D. Pp. 96. (Published October, 1860.) 



ARTICLE VI. Researches upon the Venom of the Rattlesnake: with an Investiga- 

 tion OF THE Anatomy and Physiology of the Organs Concerned. By 

 S. Weir Mitchell, M. D., Lecturer on Physiolojry in the American 

 Medical Association. Pp. 156, and twelve wood-CMts. (Pnl)lished De- 

 cember, 1860.) 



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