524 INDEX. 



P.icr 



Mi moirof Henry by Prof. Joseph Lovering 427 



Memoir ol Henry by Prof. Alfred M. Mayer 475 



Memoir of Henry by Dr. Orlando Meads 130 



Memoii of Henry by Prof. Simon Newcomb-- 441 



Me rof Henry by William B. Taylor 205 



Memoir of Henry by Dr. James C. Welling ITT 



Memoir ol Henry directed by resolution of the Regents 28 



Metals, capillarity of. observed 21 



Meteoric determination of longitude, by Henry, Bache, and others -71 



Meteorological observations for th untry, inaugurated by Henry 28" I 15, 16 I 



Meteorological work of Henry . - 212,257 286 



Mitchell, Rev. Samuel S.— Funeral Address by — I 



Molecular constitution of matter, hypothesis of 266 



Moll's "quantity" electro-magnet compared with Henry's. 220 



Monu nt to Henry.- proceedings in « longress regarding 511 



Morrill, Hon. J. S.— Bill presented by, in the U.S. Senate for erecting a statue of 



Henry 5 * 2 



Morse, Prof.S I" B.- experiments of, in electric telegraphy 50,150,381 



Morse, Prof.S. F B.— Henry s encouraging letter to 384 



Mother of Joseph Henry 54 



Motive powers discriminated and classified -'" :; 



Motor, electro-magnetic, flrst devised by Henry 143.'. 



Multiple-coil magnet of Henry 85,218,229,390, 144 184 



Multiple-roil magnet of Henry, employed by Faraday 222,230,390 



Museum, beyond the capacity of the Smithsonian building 419 



Museum,— efforts of Henry to detach, from the Smithsonian Institution 28 



Museum, National, supported by the Government 460 



National Government,— services of Henry to 133,316 



National Museum,— efforts by Henry to obtain the establishment of 285 



Natural selection,— views of Henry on 342,507 



Newcomb, Prof. Simon,— biographical memoir of Henry by 441 



Newcomb, Prof. Simon, a pall-bearer at tin funeral of Joseph Henry 11 



New York State, — survey of a State road through, by Henry in 1826 — 57, 183,210, 128 



New York State,— topographical elevations of. by Henry in 1829 270, 444 



Nott, Dr. E.— letter to, from Henry — 409 



obituary memoir of Joseph Henry, by Prof. Joseph Lovering 1-7 



I Ibservations on the comparative heat of the solar spots 269,431,448,502 



Observations on the earth's magnetic intensity at Albany 25S n ■ 



i Ibservatories for physical, magnetical, and chemical research I 



Oersted's announcement of the re-action between a galvanic current and the 



magnetic needle "'■'- - 1 ; 4 " 



Official correspondence eif the Smithsonian Institution 301 



Ohm the first to announce the law of galvanic currents in 1*27 227,430 



( ihm,— the papers of, first published in English in 1S41 227, 490 



Ohm,— the theory of, for years universally neglected 227,430. 189 



oils for illumination— investigation of, by Henry 309,319,421,502 



i irganic dynamics, — Henry's conception of 335 



Organic " force " but a department of the physical — 273 



i Irganization of the Smithsonian Institution, proposed by Henry 275,399,4 I 



i iscillation of electrical discharge, discovered by Henry 255,396,448 



Pall-bearers at the funeral of .Joseph Henry H 



Parentage of Joseph Henry 54,177. 44^ 



Parker, Dr. Pi ti r. i bairman of executive committee of the Board of Regent-, to 



make arrangements for a publi immemoration 1,28 



Parker. Dr. Peter, one of a committee appointed by the Regents, to arrange the 



funeral ceremonies of Joseph Henry ___M. 11 



