PART II. 



PUBLICATIONS OF THE INSTITUTION, PRINTED BY CONGRESS. 



ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



The Annual Report of the Institution consists of the Reports of the Secre- 

 tary, of the Executive and Building Committees, Proceedings of the Board 

 of Regents, Lists of Meteorological Observers and Donors to the Museum, 

 Statistics of Exchanges, Publications, etc. etc., and a General Appendix. 



Tlie object of tlie General Appendix is to illustrate the operations of the 

 Institution by reports of lectures and extracts from correspondence, as well 

 as to furnish information of a character suited especially to meteorological 

 observers and other persons interested in the promotion of knowledge. 



CONTEXTS OF THE GENERAL APPENDIX. 



Report for 1847. 



Jewett, Report on Plan of Library. 



Loomis, Report on Meteorology of the United States. 



Espy, On Meteorology. 



Report for 1848. 



Jewett, Report on Library. 



Stevens, Prospectus of a Bibliographia Americana. 



Hare, Letter relative to Gift of Apparatus. 



Guyot, On Metric System for Scientific Observations. 



Report for 1849. 



Gray, Report on Botanical Explorations in New Mexico and California. 

 Agassiz, On Formation of a Museum. 

 Jewett, Public Libraries of the United States. 



Report for 1850. 



Jewett, General Catalogue System for Libraries. 



Baird, Report on Museum, and Statistics of British Museum. • 



Culbertsox, Expedition to the Mauvaises Terres and Upper Missouri. 



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