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Letter from the Secretary submitting report to Congress 3 



List of Kegents, Committees, and members ex officio of the Institution 5 



Officers of the Institution 6 



Eepokt of Pkofessok Heney, Secretary , 7 



Financial statement 7 



Funds in First National Bank T 



Liberality cf George W. Eiggs, esct 8 



Fund diminished on account of inflated cuirency 8 



Condition of the funds 8 



Account of the publications of the Institution 9 



Kules of distribution of publications 9 



Publications in 1S73 11 



Publications accepted for future years 11 



International literary and scientiflx; exchanges 25 



Foreign correspondents ' 1-6 



Free freights granted 27 



Library 27 



Meteorology 30 



Telegraphic announcements of astronomical discoveries 32 



National Museum 35 



Exploiations 37 



Mineralogical collection 51 



Photographs of antiquities in British Museum 53 



Correspondence 53 



Collaborators 54 



Work done in the Institution and in connection with other establishments 55 



Appekdix to the Report of the Secretary 58 



Entries in Museum record-books in 1872 and 1 873 58 



Distribution of duplicate specimens to the end of 1873 58 



Additions to the collections in 1873 59 



List of minerals in the National Museum, 1873 70 



Statistics of litei ary and scientific exchanges, 1873 72 



Packages from Europe for dis'^'ibution in America in 1872 and 1873 73 



Classified record of monthly meteorological reports preserved in the Smithsonian Institution. 84 



Classified list of meteorological publications and articles in periodicals received in 1873 132 



Eeport of the Executive ComiMittee 141 



Journal of Proceedings of the Board of Regents — 148 



Meeting of December 19, 1873 148 



Address of J. A. G-arfleld on death of Chief-Justice Chase and Professor Louis Agassiz . . . 143 



Meeting of January 21, 1874 < 151 



Address of H. Hamliu on death of Chief-Justice Chase 152 



Address of P. Parker on death of Professor Agassiz 153 



Meeting of January 26, 1874 155 



Meeting of April 27, 1874 158 



GENERAL APPENDIX. 



Chaeles Babbage. By N. S. Dodgo ^ 16i3 



Louis Agassiz. By Rev. Rufus P. Stebbins 198 



John Torrey. By Dr. Asa Gray 211 



George GiBBS. By John Austin Stevens, jr 219 



Origin and Propagation op Disease. By John C. Dalton, M. D 226 



Later views of the connection of Electricity and Magnetism— 



Review of Mathematical Theories. By Professor Helmholz 246 



ActioEi at a Distance. By Professor Clerk Maxwell 254 



Account of the Astronomical Observatory at Cordoba, Argentine Republic. By Dr. B. A. 



Gould 265 



Eecent Estimate of the Population of the Wori,d. By Ed. Mailly 282 



