CONTENTS. 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Pnge. 



Letter of the Secretary to Conj^ress 3 



Letter of Chancellor and Secretary, submitting Report of 1866 4 



Officers and Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 5 



Members ex officio and honorary members of the Institution G 



Programme of Organization 7 



Report of the Secretary, Prof. Henry, for 1866 13 



Condition of the funds 13 



Transfer of the Library to Congress ]4 



National Library ^ 15 



General policy of the Institution 15 



National Museum 16 



Reconstruction of the building 17 



Account of the publications 18 



Rules of distributio n of publications 21 



Reports of the Institution 22 



Meteorology 23 



Literary and scientific international exchanges 25 



Explorations and collections 26 



Library 28 



Correspondence 30 



Investigations 31 



Lectures 31 



Account of Whittlesey's paper on Glacial Drift 32 



Report of the Assistant Secretary for 1866 37 



Statistics of literary and scientific exchanges 37 



Additions to the collections 44 



Work done in the museum and collections 44 



Distribution of specimens 45 



Donations to the museum 46 



List of Meteorological stations and observers 51 



Meteorological Material received during 1866 60 



Report of the Executive Committee 65 



Report of the Building Committee 69 



Journal of the Proceedings of the Board of Regents 72 



Sketch of the life and services of William W. Seaton 80 



GENERAL APPENDIX. 



Memoir of Magendie, by M. Flourens, Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences . . 91 



On the Senses 127 



Sense of taste 127 



Sense of hearing 148 



Sense of light 173 



Lecture on the Results of Spectrum Analysis applied to the Heavenly Bodies, by Wm. 



Huggins, F. R. S., &c 195 



