REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



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Number of societies sending their publications in exchange to tike Smithsonian 



Institution. 



Germany 



Great Britain and Ireland • • 



France 



United States 



Italy 



Holland 



Russia 



Switzerland • 



Canada • • 



Belgium 



Australia 



Denmark 



Sweden 



Uindostan 



Norway 



Spain 



Cuba 



334 East Indies 



194 Chile 



113 Portugal 



100 Turkey 



70 Mauritius 



48 Africa 



46 China 



35 Brazil 



20 Greece 



19 Egypt 



15 Bogota 



13 Buenos Ayres^ •• 



12 Jamaica 



11 Mexico 



9 Trinidad 



7 



6 Making in all 



1,081 



To the list of correspondents during the past year we may add the 

 Institute of Egypt, founded at Alexandria, in 1859, from which we 

 have received the first volume of its transactions and several numbers 

 of its proceedings. These works form, as it were, an epoch in the 

 history of modern civilization, which, originally cradled in the valley 

 of the Nile, now returns, after having changed the condition of 

 western Europe, to the place of its birth, destined, we trust, to rouse 

 from its long apathy "the country in which Pythagoras courted 

 wisdom and Herodotus unveiled the sources of history." A library 

 and collections have been formed, which are rapidly increasing, and 

 which even now it is stated are capable of rendering essential service 

 to the explorers of the valley of the Nile. Although the French lan- 

 guage has been adopted for the reports and also for correspondence 

 between the members of the society and the learned institutions of 

 the west and east, yet the contributions of authors are presented in 

 their original form and style, and hence the present volume includes 

 memoirs in French, Italian, Greek, and Arabic, with illustrations in 

 the hieroglyphic, Coptic, and Hebrew. To some of these memoirs, 

 explanations, rather than strict translations, are appended. 



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