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275. Report for 1873— Contiuued. 



Heistrt, J. On the •' Moon-Hoax." 



Babbage, C. Extracts from writint^s of 



Stebbins, K. p. Memoir of Louis Agassiz. 



Gray, A. Memoir of John Torrey. 



Stevens, J. A. Memoir of George Gibbs. 



Dalton, J. C. Origin and propagation of disease. 



Helmholz H. ; Maxwell, J. C. Later views of the connection of 



electricity and magnetism. 

 Gould, B. A. Account of the astronomical observatory at Cordoba, 



Argentine Republic. 

 Maillt, E. Estimate of the population of the world. 

 Morix, a. Warming and ventilating buildings. Part I. 

 Deforest, E. Additions to a memoir on methods of interpolation. 



Part II. 

 Ethnology : 



ScHtTMACHER, P. Remarks on tbe Kjokken-Moddings on the North- 

 west Coast of America. 

 Berendt, C. H. On a grammar and dictionary of the Carib or Karif 

 4anguage, with some account of the people by whom it is spoken. 

 GiLLMAN, H. The mound-builders and platycnemism in Michigan. 

 Mason, 0. T. The Leipsic " Museum of Ethnology." 

 Perrine, T. ]\[. Antiquities of Union county, Illinois. 

 Patton, a. Antiquities of Knox county, Indiana, and Lawrence 

 County, Illinois. 

 Miscellaneous Correspondence : 



Dall, W. H. Explorations on the Western coast of North America. 

 PiERSON, AV. M. Discovery of a large meteorite in 3Iexico. 

 Brunot, F. R. On the habits of the beaver. 

 • Jevons, W. S. On a national library. 



Prize Questions of Scientific Societies : 



Society for the Encouragement of Science, Literature, and Art, Dun- 

 kirk, France. 

 Society of Science, Art, and Literature of Hainaut, Mons. Belgium. 

 Royal Institute for the Encouragement of the Natural, Economical, 



and Technological Sciences, Naples, Italy. 

 Royal Academy of Science, Literature, and the Fine Arts, Brussels, 



Belgium. 

 Society of Sciences of Haarlem, Holland. 



276. The Constants of Nature. Part II. A Table of Specific Heats for 



Solids and Liquids. By Frank W. Clarke. April, 1876. 8vo., 

 pp. 58. (M. C. XIV.) 



277. Tables, Distribution, and Variations of the Atmosphei-ic Temperature 



in the United States and some adjacent parts of America. By 

 Charles A. Schott. April, 1876. 4to., pp. 360, 10 woodcuts, 2 

 plates, 3 maps. (S. C. xxi.j 



278. Check-list of Publications of the Smithsonian Institution. July, 1874. 



8vo., pp. 24. 



