TABLE OF CONTENTS.^ 



ARTICLE I. Introduction. Pp. 16. 



Advertisement ........ iii 



List of Officers of the Smithsonian Institution . . . . ix 



Table of Contents ........ xiii 



ARTICLE II. Nereis Borealt-Americana, or Contributions to a History of toe Ma- 

 rine Alq^ of Nortu America. By W. H. Harvey, M. D., M. R. I. A. 

 Part III., Chlorospermeae. Pp. 142, and fourteen plates. 



ARTICLE III. Magnetical Observations in the Arctic Seas. By Eliboa Kent Kane, 

 M. D., TJ. S. N. Made during the second Grinnell Expedition in 

 Search of Sir John Franklin, in 185.3, 1854, and 1855, at Van Rens- 

 selaer Harbor, and other points on the West Coast of Greenland. 

 Reduced and Discussed, by Charles A. Schott, Assistant U. S. Coast 

 Survey. Pp. 72, and one plate. 



Introductory Letter ....... v 



Section 1. Magnetic Declination, 1854 ..... 1 



2. Observations of the Magnetic Inclination, 1853, 1854, and 1855 27 

 ,3. Observations of Magnetic Intensity, 1854 and 1855 . . 39 



ARTICLE IV. A Grammar and Dictionary op the Toruba Language, with an intro- 

 ductory description of the Country and People of Yoruba. By the 

 Rev. T. J. BowEN, Missionary of the Southern Baptist Convention. Pp. 

 232, and one map. 



' Each memoir is separately paged and indexed. 



