APPENDIX TO THE REPORT OF THE SECRETARY, 



Smithsonian Institution, 

 Washington, December 31, 1858. 



Sir: I have the honor herewith to present a report, for 1858, of the 

 operations you have entrusted to my charge, namely, those which 

 relate to the printing, to the exchanges, and to the collections of 

 natural history. 



Very respectfully, your ohedient servant, 



SPENCER F. BAIRD, _ 

 Assistant Secretary Smithsonian Institution. 

 Joseph Henry, L. L. D., 



Secretary Smithsonian Institution. 



publications. 



The publications of the Institution during the year are as follows : 



Annual Report of the Board of Regents for 1857. One volume, 8 

 vo., pp. 438. 



Catalogue of the Described Diptera of North America, prepared for 

 the Smithsonian Institution by R. Osten Saeken. 8vo., pp. 112. 



Map of the Solar Eclipse of March 15, 1858, by Rev. Thomas Hill, 

 of Waltham, Massachusetts. 8vo., pp. 8. 



Directions for Meterological Observations and the Registry of Pe- 

 riodical Phenomena. 8vo. pp. 70. 



Tables, Meteorological and Physical, prepared for the Smithsonian 

 Institution, by Arnold Gruyot. 8vo. pp. 634. 



Nereis Boreali Americana, or Contributions to a History of the 

 Marine Algae of North America, by William Henry Harvey, M. D., 

 M. R. I, A. Part III, Chlorospermeae. 4to, pp. 142, and fourteen 

 plates . 



Magnetical Observations in the Arctic Seas, by Elisha Kent Kane, 

 M. D., United States navy, reduced and discussed by Charles A. 

 Schott. 4to. pp. 72, and two plates. 



A Grammar and Dictionary of the Yoruba Language, by the Rev. 

 T. J. Bowen. 4to. pp. 232. 



The following publications are in an advanced state and will be 

 completed early in the year : 



Catalogue of Transactions and Periodicals in the Library of the 

 Smithsonian Institution. 8vo. 



Catalogue of North American Birds, by S. F. Baird. 



