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of all the articles whicl 



ive, in the pages of Engli 

 ?work is to be publisln-d 



5. Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian In 

 tutiiw for lsso.— The Report of the Secretary, Professor Bai 

 on the organization of the Institution and its work and pro^r 

 in its various departments during the year 1880, is followed b 

 General Record of Scientific Progress for the year: in Astrono 

 by Professor E. S. Holden ; in Geology and Mineralogy by 

 W. Ilawes; in Physics and Chemi>tr\ l.*v Professor G. F. Bark 

 in Botany by W. G. Farlow ; in Zoology bv T. Gill ; and in AntV 

 pology by O. T. Mason. It also contains a paper on the Lu 

 Cavern from an examination made under the auspices of the In 

 tution in July, 1880; a discussion of Professor Snell's barorael 

 observations byT. If. Loud ; an investigation of illuminating i 

 terials by the late Secretary, Professor Henry (reprinted from 

 Report of the Light House Board for 1875); Synopsis of the 

 entitle writin-s of William Um-chel, bv K. S. Holdeu and C 

 Hastings; and Reports of Astronomical* observatories. 



C. W. Siemexs, Esq., P \.ssociatio»,Au£ 



i!»th. at La Kod.elle. M .Ian^kn. IV-ident: and the JUInt 



I )r! 'f.'k'kx'h^ President. '" 



close of the exercises. His appearance was the signal for pro- 

 commenced speaking with deep emotion, when suddenly he fell 

 lifeless to the Moor without a struggle. 



Professor Rogers was born in Philadelphia, in 1805, and was 

 the second son of Dr. P. K. Rogers. His father was Professor 

 of Physics and Chemistry at the college of William and Marv, in 

 Virginia, from 1819 to 1829, when he was succeeded by his "son 

 William, who held the position until his removal to the Univer- 

 sity of Virginia, in 1835. He discharged there with distin- 

 guished ability the duties of the Chair of Physics, and also o 

 instruction in mineralogy and geology until 1853, when he 

 removed to Boston. The writer has a vivid memory of a lee 

 ture on the resultant of force which he heard Professor Rogers 

 deliver at the University of Virginia in the autumn of 1835, wher 



