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CONTENTS. XI 



Forty-second Congress, 1871-1873 — Continued. Page. 



Expositions, Philadelphia Centennial 694 



Vienna 698 



Free postage 699 



Powell's exploration 699 



Appointment of Regents 699 



Forty-third Congress, 1873-1875: 



Expositions, Philadelphia Centennial 700 



Vienna 705 



Appointment of Regents 705 



Report of Smithsonian Institution 718 



International exchanges 724 



Documents '. 724 



Act of organization of Smithsonian Institution. Revised Statutes 724 



Public printing 728 



Polaris expedition 728 



National Museum, estimates 728 



appropriations 729 



Regents to have use of Library of Congress 730 



Forty-fourth Congress, 1875-1877: 



Report of Smithsonian Institution 1839 



Restoration of the original Declaration of Independence 730 



International exchanges 731 



Indian statistics and history 731 



National Museum, building 731 



estimates 739 



appropriations 742 



Philadelphia Centennial 743 



Government exhibit 746 



Act of organization of Smithsonian Institution amended 767 



Free postage 767 



Appointment of Regents 1839 



Forty-tifth Congress, 1877-1879: 



National Museum, building required for Government collections 768 



Government collections to be deposited in 779 



estimates 779 



appropriations 782 



Appointment of Regents 783 



Fire protection for j^ublic buildings 784 



Order of Saint Olaf for S. F. Baird 788 



Woodruff Scientilic Expedition 789 



Plates of fractional currency 790 



Documents 791 



Geological and Geographical Survey reports 791 



Expositions, Paris 792 



Philadelphia Centennial 794 



Howgate Arctic expedition 795 



Ventilation of Hall of House of Representatives 796 



Report of Smithsonian Institution 799 



International exchanges, appropriations 799 



The Smithsonian Institution, a corporation ? 800 



Joseph Henry, death and memorial services of 801 



memorial volume 805 



services of, to the Government 806 



Acting Secretarv of Smithsonian Institution 809 



