REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 10 



1. Astronomical, Magnetic, Tid;il, and Meteorological Observations 

 within the Arctic Circle, by Isaac I. Hayes, M. D. 



2. Meteorological Observations made at Brunswick, Maine, for 

 fifty-two years, by Professor P. Cleaveland, from 1807 to 1859. 



The memoirs of Newcomb, Pumpelly, and Hayes were fully de- 

 scribed in the report for 1865. It therefore remains to give the ac- 

 count of that of Mr. Whittlesey on the Fresh-water Glacial Drift of 

 the Northern States, which will be found at the end of this report. 



The following works in octavo were also published in 1866: 



1. Catalogue of publications of societies and of periodical works 

 belonging to the Smithsonian Institution, (January,) 596 pp. 



2. Monograph of American Corbiculadas, recent and fossil, by 

 Temple Prime, (January,) 91 pp. 



3. List of works published by the Smithsonian Institution, (Jan. 

 uary,) 11 pp. 



4. New species of North American Coleoptera, by Jno. L. Lo- 

 Conte, pages 87 to 177, of part I, (April,) 90 pp. 



5. List of the Coleoptera of North America, bj Jno. L. LeConte, 

 pages 50 to 78, (April,) 30 pp. 



6. Check-list of the Invertebrate Fossils of North America, Eocene 

 and Oligocene, by T. A. Conrad, (May,) 45 pp. 



7 . Review of American birds in the collection of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. By Prof. S. F. Baird. Pp. 321-450 ; (May and June,) 

 130 pp. • 



The memoirs actually completed and issued in the year therefore 

 embraced 303 quarto pages and 993 octavo pages, which, with the 

 annual report, 496 pages, makes an aggregate of 1,792 pages printed 

 within the year. 



New editions of the following works have been issued during the 

 same period: Allen's Bats; Binney'sLand and Fresh-water Shells, parts 

 II and III; Instructions for collecting specimens of Natural History; 

 circular relative to nests and eggs; check-list of shells; comparative 

 vocabulary; ethnological instructions; catalogue of minerals; check- 

 list of fossils ; Draper on the Telescope. 



The most expensive octavo publication during the past year has 

 been the catalogue of the transactions of learned Societies and other 

 public bodies, as well as of encyclopedias and other serial works in the 

 library of the Institution. The printing of this work was begun m 

 1863 and completed in 1866. During its passage through the press 

 proof-sheets were sent to the principal Societies abroad, for the pur- 

 pose, first, of securing accuracy in the titles; second, of showing the defi- 



