14 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



he has not yet been able to complete this work. It is now proposed, as 

 recommended by Professor Gray, to publish the pages already stereo- 

 typed, as part 1, since this will cover the ground of volume 1 of Torrey 

 and Gray's Flora of North America and be complete in itself as far as it 

 goes. A short preface will be given, and at the end an index to the 

 genera. It will include nearly 500 pages, and can be printed and distrib- 

 uted early in the year 1878. 



The "Toner Lectures" have been instituted at Washington by Dr. 

 Joseph M. Toner, a practicing physician of this city, who has placed 

 in charge of a board of trustees, consisting of the Secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, the Surgeon-General of the United States 

 Army, the Surgeon-General of the United States Navy, and the presi- 

 dent of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, a fund, the 

 interest of which is to be applied annually for a memoir or essay rela- 

 tive to some branch of medical science, and containing some new truth 

 fully established by experiment or observation. As these lectures are 

 intended to increase and diffuse knowledge, the Institution has accepted 

 them for publication in its series of "Miscellaneous Collections.' 7 The 

 following is a list of the lectures already published : 



1. On the structure of cancerous tumors and the mode in which adja- 

 cent parts are invaded. By Dr. J. J. Woodward. November, 1873. 

 44 pp. 8vo. 



2. The dual character of the brain. By Dr. C. E. Brown-Sequard. 

 January, 1877. 25 pp. 8vo. 



3. Strain and overaction of the heart. By Dr. J. M. Da Costa. Au- 

 gust, 1874. 32 pp. 8vo. 



4. A study of the nature and mechanism of fever. By Dr. Horatio 

 C. Wood. February, 1875. 48 pp. 8vo. 



5. On the surgical complications and sequels of the continued fevers. 

 By Dr. W. W. Keen. April, 1877. 72 pp. 8vo. 



6. Subcutaneous surgery; its principles and recent extension in prac- 

 tice. By Dr. William Adams. May, 1877. 20 pp. 8vo. 



Of the above series, the second, fifth, and sixth have been published 

 during the past year. The second, by Dr. Brown-Sequard, was not 

 printed in its regular order on account of the failure of the author to 

 furnish the manuscript of the lecture, and it was finally published from 

 short-hand notes taken at the time by a reporter. 



Appended to the lecture of Dr. Keen on fever is a bibliography, 

 including works referring more or less briefly to several diseases, viz : 

 1, diseases of the joints ; 2, diseases of the bones ; 3, diseases of the 

 larynx; 4, gangrene; 5, hseinatomata; 6, diseases of the eye; 7, phleg. 

 masia; 8, miscellaneous. 



To defray in part the cost of printing these lectures, they are sold at 

 25 cents each. 



The records of scientific discoveries have become so extended and 

 so distributed among works forming whole libraries, that to become 



