54 REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



APPENDIX TO THE REPORT OF THE SECRETARY- 



Smithsonian Institution, 

 Washington, December 31, 1859. 



Sir: I have the honor herewith to present a report, for 1859, of the 

 operations you have intrusted to niy charge, namely, those which 

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

 history. 



Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



SPENCER F. BAIRD, 

 Assistant Secretary Smithsonian Institution. 

 Prof. Joseph Henry, LL.D. 



Secretary Smithsonian Institution. 



publications. 



The publications of the Institution during the past year have been 

 as follows : 



Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the 

 Institution for the year 1858. One volume, 8vo., pp. 448. 



An account of the Total Eclipse of the Sun on September 7. 1858, 

 as observed near Olmos, Peru. By Lieutenant J. M. Gilliss, United 

 States navy. 4to. pp. 24, and one plate. 



Catalogue of Publications of Societies and of other Periodical 

 Works in the Library of the Smithsonian Institution. July 1, 1858. 

 Part 1. Foreign works. 8vo. pp. 260. 



Appendix to the Catalogue of Described Diptera of North America. 

 By Baron R. Osten Sacken. 8vo. pp. 4. 



Directions for Collecting, Preserving, and Transporting Specimens 

 of Natural History, prepared for the use of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. Third edition. 8vo. pp. 40. 



Discussion of the Magnetic and Meteorological Observations made 

 at the Girard College Observatory, Philadelphia, in 1840, 1841,1842, 

 1843, 1844, and 1845. Part 1. Investigations of the Eleven-Year 

 Period in the Amplitude of the Solar-diurnal Variation, and of the 

 Disturbances of the Magnetic Declination. By A. D. Bache, LL.D. 

 Pages 22. Quarto. 



Meteorological Observations in the Arctic Seas. By Elisha Kent 

 Kane, M. D., United States navy. Made during the second Grinnell 

 expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, in 1853, 1854, and 1855, 

 at Van Rensselaer harbor, and other points on the west coast of 

 Greenland. Reduced and discussed by Charles A. Schott, assistant 

 United States Coast Survey. Pages 120. Quarto. 



