12 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS 



77. Report for 1855— Continued. 



American Acadkmy of Akt.s and Sciences, Boston, Mass. Thanks 



to Smithsonian Institution for Exchanges. 

 Stone, Wm. J. On phister casts of antique and nioderu statues, etc. 

 Illinois State Board of Education. Meteorological system for 

 ever}' State. 



Butler, A. P. Report of Senate Judiciary Committee on the Manage- 

 ment of the Smithsonian Institution, Feb. 6, 1855. 



Harvey, W. H. Lecture on marine algae. 



Morris, J. G. Lecture on natural history as applied to farming and 

 gardening. 



Morris, J. G. Lecture on insect instincts and transformations. 



Chace, G. I. Lecture on oxygen and its combinations. 



Smith, J. L. Lecture on meteoric stones. 



Snell, E. S. Lecture on planetary disturbances. 



Logan, T. M. On the climate of California. 



Morris, O. W. ; Henry, J. Quantity of rain at different heights. 



GuYoT, A. ; Henry J. Directions for meteorological observations. 



Henry, J. Earthquake directions. 



Henry", J. Aurora directions. 



Green, J. Account of a new barometer. 



Henry, J. Registration of periodical phenomena. 



Mastkrman, S. Observations on thunder and lightning. 



Letterman, J. Sketch of the Navajo Indians. 



Clingman, T. L. Topography of Black Mountain, North Carolina. 



Robinson, E. ; Ludewig, H. E. ; Squier, E. G. ; Murphey, H. C. j 

 Hodgson, W. B. ; Irving, W. ; Prescott, W. H. ; Sparks, J. ; 

 Bancroft, G. ; Hawks, F. L. Communications relative to pub- 

 lication of Spanish works on New Mexico, by Buckingham Smith. 



MtJLLER, J. Report on recent progress in physics — Galvanism. 



78. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. Vol. VIII. 1856. 4to., 



pp. 564, 52 woodcuts, 9 plates. 



contents. 



Haven, S. ¥. Archeology of the United States. No. 71. 

 Olmsted, D. Recent secular period of aurora borealis. No. 81. 

 Alvord, B. Tangencies of circles and of spheres. No. 80. 

 Jones, J. Chemical and physiological investigations relative to verte- 



brata. No. 82. 

 Force, P. Auroral phenomena in higher northern latitudes. No. 84. 

 Publications of societies and periodicals in Smithsonian Library. Part 



II. No. 85. 



79. New Tables for determining the Values of the Coefficients in the Per- 



turbative Function of Planetary Motion, which depend upon the 

 ratio of the mean distances. By John D. Runkle. November, 

 1856. 4to., pp. 64. (S. C. ix.) 



80. The Tangencies of Circles and of Spheres. By Benjamin Alvord. 



January, 1856. 4to., pp. 16, 25 woodcuts, 9 plates of 20 figures* 

 (S. C. viii.) 



