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whatever country, who shall, in the judgment of the Academy, have 

 made, during the preceding four years, the ino-i ; •; - 



ful discovery, or shall have published the most celebrated work, 

 in pure or applied mathematics, or in the physical sciences, such 

 as physios, chemistry, physiology, natural history, or in geology. 

 pathology, history, geography or statistics; and, secondly, the 

 same amount, on'the same conditions, in 1881, and every four 

 years thereafter, to an Italian savant. The prize will not be given 

 to anv of the National members of the Academy, resident or non- 

 resident. The amount of the prize given in 1879 will be 12,000 

 francs. 



2. Annual Report of the Board of Regents ,,fi]„ SmitJiSojnan 

 Institution for 1875.— The work of the' Smithsonian Institution 

 covers a wide range of subjects of both economical and scientific 

 importance, and has a powerful influence for good on the welfare 



fact, stated in this report, that the department of the Institution 

 having charge offish-culture, which is under the direction of Pro- 

 fessor Baird, distributed in the years 1874, 1875, of vounu shad, 

 l,s,0s;),r,.-o; of Penobscot salmon", 2,294,505; of California salmon, 

 4,581,340 ; making in all over twenty-five and a half millions which, 

 with the distribution during the winter and spring of 1875-6, of 

 these and other fishes, make a total of forty million fish supplied 

 by the Commission in three years. The Report on the Museum 

 shows great increase. One object of special interest acquired 

 durinu' 'i he -ear, is the Tuczon 'meteorite, presented by Dr. B. J. 

 I). Irwin, I'.'s. A. The very extensive collections displayed by 

 the Smithsonian Institution at the International Exposition at 

 bia were second in interest to none there exhibited. 

 Very much of the credit connected with it is due to Dr. S. F. 

 Baird, the assistant secretary of the Institution, who gives in this 

 volume a statement of the g I rangements. 



The general appendix to the Report contains" the following 

 papers— Eulogy of Volta, by Arago ; The probable future of the 

 , . by A. !!■: Cavimli.::; Report on the Transactions of 

 the Society of Physics and Natural History of Geneva, 1873 to 

 July, 1874; The "Past and Future of Geology," by Joseph I'ukst- 

 wich; Report of the Special Committee for the Consideration of 



of local Scientific Societies* by Professor Henry ; On Ethnology: 

 International Code of Symbols for Charts of Pre-historic Archaeol- 

 ogy, translated byO. T. Mason; Characteristics of Ancient Man 

 in Michigan, by II. Gil man ; The Stone Age in New Jerscv, by 

 Dr. C. C. Abbott. The Ethnological papers are illustrated by a 

 large number of figures of stone implements, skulls, etc. 



3. The Thenn/ of So,,,,! !,, its relation to Music ; by Professor 

 Pietro Blaskp.xa. of the Royal University of Rome. 188 pp. 



ith numerous woodcuts. New York, 1876. (D. Appleton 

 & Co.) — This is a popular work in style by one who is deeply 

 versed in the science of the subject of which it treats, and knows 

 how to present its principles and facts briefly and clearly. 



