SMITHSONIAN 



MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTMS 



YOL. XII 



•EVERY MAN IS A VALDABLE MEMBER OF SOCIETY WHr> BY HIS OBSERVATIONS, RESEARCHES, 

 AND EXPERIMENTS PROCURES KNOWLEDGE JFOB MEN." — SMITHSON. 



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PUBLISHED CY THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



1874. 



