APPENDIX TO THE REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Smithsonian Institution, 



Washington, December 31, 1862. 



Sir: I beg leave herewith to present a report, for 1S62, of the operations 

 intrusted to my charge, namely, those relating to printing, exchanges, and 

 natural history. 



Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



SPENCER F. BAIRD, 

 Assistant Secretary Smithsonian Institution. 

 Prof Joseph Henry, L.L.D., 



Secretary Smithsonian Institution. 



PRINTING. 



In an appendix will be found a list of the works published in 1862 — the num- 

 ber of p*ges printed, quarto and octavo, greatly exceeding that reported for 

 1861. Several large works are also in press and will be issued early in 1863. 



The following enumeration will show the number of pages printed during 

 the year : 



Works completed and issued, quarto pages . . 1, 390 



octavo pages.. 1,226 



2,616 



'"Works still in press, quarto pages . . 1 SO 



octavo pages . . 593 



773 



Total 3, 389 



A complete catalogue of all works published by the Institution up to June, 

 1862, was issued during the year, and will be found included in the list of 

 articles published. 



All the octavo publications of the Institution hitherto issued, and of which 

 copies enough were on hand, have been arranged in a regular series, entitled 

 " Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections," corresponding to the "Smithsonian 

 Contributions to Knowledge," and fill four volumes of over seven hundred 

 pages each. An accompanying list shows the contents of these several volumes. 



