TABLE OF CONTENTS/ 



ARTICLE I. Introduction. Pp. 16. 



Advertisement ........ 



List of Officers of the Smithsonian Institution ..... 



ARTICLE II. An Investigation of the Orbit op Neptune, with General Tables op 

 ITS Motion. By Simon Newcome, Professor of Mathematics, United 

 States Navy. Pp. 116. (Published January, 1866.) 



Chapter I. Introduction ...... 



Chapter II. Provisional Theory of Neptune .... 



Chapter III. Discussions of Observations of Neptune 

 Chapter IV. Results of the Comparison of the Theoretical with the 

 Observed Position of Neptune ..... 



Chapter Y. Tables of Neptune ..... 



ARTICLE III. On the Eresh-Water Glacial Drift of the Northwestern States. By 

 Charles Whittlesey. Pp. 32, Two Plates and Eleven Wood-cuts. 

 (Published May, 1866.) 



General remarks ..... 



Copper Boulders and Nuggets in the Drift 



Local Sections and Details 



Drift Sections ..... 



Vegetable Remains of the Drift . 



Animal Remains of the Drift 



Shells from the Drift and other Superficial Materials of 



Ancient Terraces and Ridges 



Glacial Striaa . 



Encroachment of the Water upon the Land 



Boulders moved by Ice . . . . 



Lakes of Erosion .... 



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ARTICLE IV. Geological Researches in China, Mongolia, and Japan, during the 



Years 1862 to 1865. By Raphael Pumpelly. Pp. 170, Nine Plates 



and Eighteen Wood-cuts. (Published August, 1866.) 



Chapter I. On the General Outlines of Eastern Asia 



Chapter II. Geological Observations in the Basin of the Yangtse 



Kiang ........ 



Chapter III. Observations in the Province of Chihli . 

 Chapter IV. Structure of the Southern Edge of the Great Table-Land, 

 and of Northern Shansi and Chihli ..... 



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