34 EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF 



REPORT OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY IN CHARGE OF PUBLI- 

 CATIONS, EXCHANGES, AND NATURAL HISTORY. 



Sir : I herewith present to you the report of operations for the year 

 1S53, in the departments assigned to my superintendence. 



1. Publications. 



During the year 1853, a much larger amount of matter has been 

 printed and published by the Smithsonian Institution than in any year 

 since the commencement of its operations. Two volumes of the quarto 

 series have been completed, of which one has been distributed and 

 the other is nearly ready. The following list contains the titles of the 

 papers in these volumes. 



List of Memoirs in Vol. V, Smithsonian Contributions. 



1. Introduction ; pp. 16. 



2. A Flora and Fauna within living animals. By Joseph Leidy, M. D. ; 



pp. 68, and ten plates. 



3. Memoir on the Extinct Species of American Ox. By Joseph Leidy, 



M. D. ; pp. 20, and five plates. 



4. Anatomy of the Nervous System of Rana Pipiens. By Jeffries Wy- 



man, M. D. ; pp. 52, and two plates. 



5. Nereis Boreali-Ameiicana, or Contributions to the History of the 



Marine Algae of North America. By William Henry Harvey, 

 M. D., M. R. I. A ; Part II, Rhodospermese : pp. 262, and twenty- 

 four plates. 



6. Plantse Wrightianse Texano-Neo-Mexicanse ; Part II, An Account of 



a collection of Plants, made by Charles Wright, A. M., in West- 

 ern Texas, New Mexico, and Sonora, in the years 1851 and 1852. 

 By Asa Gray, M. D. ; pp. 120, and four plates. 



Vol. VI, Smitlisonian Contributions. 



1. Introduction ; pp. 16. 



2. Plantse Fremontianse, or Description of Plants collected in Califor- 



nia by Co). J. C. Fremont. By John Torrey, F. L. S. ; pp. 24, 

 and ten plates. 



3. Observations on the Balis Maritima of Linnaeus. By John Torrey, 



F. L. S. ; pp. 8, and one plate. 



4. On the Darlingtonia Cali/brnica, a new Pitcher Plant from Northern 



California. By John Torrey, F. L. S. ; pp. 8, and one plate. 



5. Synopsis of the Marine Invertebrata of Grand Manan, or the Region 



about the Bay of Fundy. By William Stimpson ; pp. 68, and 

 three plates. 



6. On the Winds of the Northern Hemisphere. By James H. Coffin, 



Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, in Lafayette 

 College ; pp. 200, and thirteen plates. 



