32 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Plan Hypsometrique de Bruxelles et des Environs, 33 parts. Carte 

 des Cheinius de Fer de la Belgique, 1876. Carte des Cheinins de Fer 

 de l'Europe Centrale. Mirror d'Uranie d'apres 1' Anglais d'Elton. ,Carte 

 Generate de la Palestine. Atlas Universel de Geographie, composee de 

 DO belles cartes. 



From tbe Observatory of tbe Soman College, Eome, Italy : Bulletino 

 Meteorologico, 1863-1875, 10 vols., 4to, and 36 astronomical pampblets. 



From tbe Boyal Swedisb Academy of Sciences, Stockbolm: Hand- 

 lingar Ny. Folja. Vols, x-xii, 1872-1875. 4to. Bibung, vols, i-iii, 

 1872-1776. 8vo. Ofversigt. Vols, xxviii-xxxii, 1872-1876, and 8 parts 

 of volumes and pampblets. 



From tbe Russian Government, Ministry of War, St. Petersburg : 

 Eestniab Osadie Straasbourgab. Vols, i and ii. St. Petersburg, 1874, 



1875. Svo. Artillerysky Zhurual, 61 parts. Eengenneerie Zhurual, 29 

 parts. Oreyeyuyy Zboruik, 22 parts, and Voennoe Zboruik, 6 parts. 



From tbe Hungarian Academy of Science, Buda-Pestb : Publications 

 of tbe Academy, 38 vols, and 133 parts of volumes. Buda-Pestb, 1875- 



1876, 4to. and Svo. 



From tbe Board of Admiralty, London : Tide-tables for tbe Britisb 

 and Irisb ports, 1876, Svo. Remarks on Davis Straits, Baffin's Bay, &c, 

 1875, Svo. Ligbts, 1876, 10 in number, and 32 cbarts publisbed by tbe 

 Hydrograpbic Office. 



From tbe Royal Library, Stockbolm : Government documents, 25 vol- 

 umes, 1876, 4to. 



From the Imperial Medico-Chirurgical Academy, St. Petersburg : 31 

 Inaugural dissertations for 1875. 



From tbe Universities of Dorpat, Helsingfors, Berlin, Bonn, Buda- 

 Pestb, Erlangen, Gottiogen, Greifswald, Halle, Heidelberg, Leipzig, 

 Marburg, Tubingen, Bern, Zurich, Louvain, and from tbe Royal High- 

 School, Utrecht: Inaugural dissertations for 1875. 



From tbe Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Canada: 21 volumes, and 

 from tbe Parliament of Ontario, Toronto, 10 volumes government docu- 

 ments. 



From the State Library of Vermont : 6 volumes documents. 



From tbe State Library of Ohio : 10 volumes documents. 



ETHNOLOGY. 



Tbe Institution during the past year has, as usual, given special at- 

 tention to ethnology, and has directed investigations to be made in 

 all cases where information has been received of the existence of 

 mounds, shell-heaps, &c. The subject, however, has received a special 

 impetus through the Centennial appropriation of Congress, circulars 

 having been distributed to tbe correspondents of the Institution re- 

 questing aid in collecting specimens and in giving information as to 

 the existence of particular collections. By this means and through the 

 agency of tbe United States Indian Bureau a very large addition has 



