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The following is a list of the Titles of Lectures given before the Institution 

 during the last session of Congress, with the names of the distinguished 

 gentlemen by whom they were delivered : 



A single lecture on Holland, by the Rev. Dr. George W. Bethune, 

 of Brooklyn, New York. 



A course of lectures on the Relations of Time and Space, the Vast- 

 ness of the Visible Creation, and the Primordial Arrangement of Ex- 

 isting Systems ; by Professor Stephen Alexander, of Princeton, New 

 Jersey. 



A course of lectures on Science applied to Agriculture, by Professor 

 J. F. W. Johnston, of the University of Durham, England. 



Two lectures, one on the Tendencies of Modern Science, and the 

 other on the Spirit of the Age ; by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Alonzo Potter, 

 of Pennsylvania. 



One lecture on the Ability of the Individual to Promote Knowledge ; 

 by the Rev. John Hall, of Trenton, New Jersey. 



A course of lectures on the Unity of the plan of the Animal Creation ; 

 by Professor Louis Agassiz, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



A course of lectures on the Tides of the Ocean and their Geological 

 Relations ; by Lieutenant Charles Henry Davis, of the United States 

 navy. 



A course of lectures on Marine Algae or Sea Weeds, and also on the 

 Morphology of the Vegetable Kingdom; by Professor William H. 

 Harvey, of the University of Dublin, Ireland. 



Two lectures, one on the Origin and Growth of the Union during the 

 Colonial Period, and the other on some points of the History and Pecu- 

 liarities of the English Language; by Professor Henry Reed, of the 

 University of Pennsylvania. 



A course of lectures on the Chemical Operatioas of Nature ; by Pro- 

 fessor Lewis C. Beck, of Rutgers College, New Jersey. 



The first part of a general course, giving an exposition of the Dy- 

 namical Phenomena of Geology ; by Professor Henry D. Rogers, of 

 Boston. 



Whatever may have been the effect of these lectures in the way of 

 diffusing knowledge, it is evident, from the character of the men by 

 whom they were delivered, that they presented truths intended to elevate 

 and improve the moral and intellectual condition of the hearers. 

 All of which is respectfully submitted : 



JOSEPH HENRY, 

 Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



