OS PUBLICATIONS AND LECTURES. 



LIST OF SMITHSONIAN PUBLICATIONS DURING 1861. 



Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Prepared for 

 the Smithsonian Institution by John L. Le Conte, M. D. 8vo. pp. 

 302, and 47 wood cuts. Pp. 1-208; published May, 1861; 209-278, 

 March, 1862. 



Synopsis of the described Neuroptera of North America, with a list 

 of the South American species. Prepared for the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution by Hermann Hagen. July, 1861. 8vo. pp. 368. 



Extracts from the proceedings of the Board of Regents of the 

 Smithsonian Institution in relation to the electro-magnetic telegraph. 

 (Reprinted from proceedings of the Board of Regents for 1857.) 8vo. 

 pp. 40. 



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

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

 stitution for the year 1860. 1 volume, 8vo., pp. 448; seventy-two 

 wood cuts. 



LIST OF LECTURES. 



The following lectures have been delivered during the months of 

 January, February, March, and April, 1862: 



Two lectures by Rev. H. W. Pierson, president of Cumberland 

 College, Kentucky, on "The private life of Thomas Jefferson." 



One lecture by Professor A. Ten Brook, late United States consul 

 at Munich, on the celebrated religious exhibition in the Bavarian 

 Highlands, called the "Drama of the Passion," the only relic of the 

 kind which has reached us from the middle ages. 



Four lectures by Dr. I. I. Hayes, of Philadelphia, on ' ' Arctic Ex- 

 plorations," with an account of his recent expedition. 



One lecture by Rev. J. C. Richmond, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on 

 "The origin and Saxon strength of the English tongue." 



One lecture by Rev. W. A. P. Martin, a missionary, on "China 

 and the Chinese." 



One lecture by Rev. A. Cleveland Coxe, of Baltimore, Maryland, 

 on "Popular taste in art and literature." 



Three lectures by Professor Fairman Rogers, of Philadelphia, on 

 "The Glaciers." 



Three lectures by Rev. Francis Vinton, of New York, on "The 

 Gentleman," "The Philosophy of War,'- and "Italy and Dante." 



