REPORT OF THE SECRETARY". 75 



plete digest of the various 'Atomic weight' determinations of the chemical ele- 

 ments published since 1814, commencing with the well-known 'Table of equivalents,' 

 by Wollaston (given in the Philosophical Transactions for that year), compiled by 

 Mr. George F. Becker, was published by the Institution in 1880. The present work 

 comprises a very full discussion and recalculation of the 'Atomic weights' from all 

 the existing data and the assignment of the most probable value to each of the 

 elements. 



"The first edition of this work was published in 1882, and this new edition, revised 

 and enlarged by Profess'ir Clarke, contains new information accumulated during the 

 past fifteen years." 



No. 1077. Equipment and Work of an Aero-physical Observatory, by Alexander 

 McAdie. (Part of Vol. XXXIX, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.) Octavo 

 pamphlet of 30 pages. Mr. McAdie's essay was submitted in the Hodgkins fund 

 prize competition and was awarded honorable mention with a bronze medal. 



SMITHSONIAN ANNUAL REPORTS. 



No. 992. B. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 

 showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 

 ending June 30, 1894. Report of the National Museum. Washington: Government 

 Printing Offlce. 1896. 8°. xxvi, 1030 pp., with 25 full-page illustrations, chart, 

 map, and 374 text figures. 



Part I of this volume comprises the report of the assistant secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution in charge of the National Museum, with Appendices, and Part II 

 consists of papers describing and illustrating collections in the United States National 

 Museum, as follows : Primitive Travel and Transportation, by Otis Tnfton Mason ; 

 Mancala, the National Game of Africa, by Stewart Culin; The Golden Patera of 

 Rennes, by Thomas Wilson; The Wooden Statue of Baron li Kamon-no-Kami 

 Naosuke, translated from the Japanese by A. Satoh ; A Study of Primitive Methods of 

 Drilling, by J. D. McGuire; The Swastika, by Thomas Wilson. 



No. 1078. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution to July, 

 189.5. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1896. 8^. xliii, 837 pp., with 

 80 plates and 2 text figures. 



This volume contains the .Journal of Proceedings of the Board of Regents at the 

 annual meeting, held January 23, 1895; the Report of the Executive Committee of 

 the Board for the year; acts and resolutions of Congress relative to the Institution, 

 and the Report of the Secretary of the Institution; concluding with the general 

 appendix, containing the following papers : 



Atmospheric Electricity, by Prof. Arthur Schuster; The General Bearings of 

 Magnetic Observations, by Ettrick W. Creak; Recent Progress in Optics, by Prof. 

 Le Conte Stevens; Air and Life, by Dr. Henry de Varigny ; The Atmosphere in Rela- 

 tion to Human Life and Health, by Francis Albert Rollo Russell ; The Air of Towns, by 

 Prof. J. B. Cohen; The Composition of Expired Air and its Effects upon Animal Life, 

 by Drs. J. S. Billings, S. Weir Mitchell, and D. H. Bergey; Physiological Light, by 

 Raphael Dubois; Oceanography, Bionomics, and Aquiculture, by William A. Herd- 

 man; Botanical Work of the British Association, by W. T. Thiselton-Dyer; Zoology 

 since Darwin, by Prof. Ludwig v. Gratf; The Evolution of Modern Scientific Labora- 

 tories, by Dr. William H. Welch; The Yellow Races, by Dr. E. T. Hamy ; Compulsory 

 Migrations in the Pacific Ocean, by Otto Sittig; The Old Settlements and Architec- 

 tural Structures in Northern Central America, by Dr. Carl Sapper; The Clifi^ Villages 

 of the Red Rock Country, and the Tusayan Ruins of Sikyatki and Awatobi, Arizona, 

 by J. Walter Fewkes; Race and Civilization, by Prof. W. M. Flinders Petrie; 

 Polychromy in Greek Statuai'y, by Maxime Collignon; Relation of Primitive Peoples 

 to Environment, Illustrated by American Examples, by J. W. Powell; Influence of 

 Environment upon Human Industries or Arts, by Otis Tufton Mason ; The Japanese 

 Nation — A Typical Product of Environment, by Gardiner G. Hubbard ; The Tusayan 

 Ritual; A Study of the Influence of Environment on Aboriginal Cults, by J. Walter 



