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Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 1861

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United States. Congress. House
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[Washington, D.C.] : [U.S. Government Printing Office], 1862.
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1 online resource (463 pages) : illustrations, tables
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Alexander, Stephen, 1806-1883, Allen, T., Coues, Elliott, Cox, Samuel Sullivan, 1824-1889, Craig, B. F. (Benjamin Faneuil), 1829-1877, Daubrée, A. (Auguste), 1814-1896, Dufour, Ch. (Charles), 1827-1903, Flourens, P. (Pierre), 1794-1867, Gibbs, George, Hayes, I. I. (Isaac Israel), 1832-1881, Hunt, Thomas Sterry, Laugel, Auguste, Lespiault, M. G., Morgan, Lewis Henry, Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885, Prentiss, D. Webster, Reclus, Elisee, Rogers, Fairman, Rutimeyer, Ludwig, Troyon, Frédéric, 1815-1866, Woolsey, Theodore Dwight, and Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents
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37-2:H.MIS.DOC.77
Y 1.1/2:SERIAL 1141
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Ancient mounds at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1819, by T.R. Peale, p. 386.
Directions for observing the scintillation of the stars, by Ch. Dufour, follows p. 219.
Eulogy of Cornelius Conway Felton, by Theodore D. Woolsey, follows p. 108.
Eulogy of Stephen Arnold Douglas, by Samuel S. Cox, follows p. 116.
Explosibility of coal oils, by T. Allen, follows p. 329.
Index follows p. 456.
Instructions for archeological investigations in the United States, by George Gibbs, p. 392.
Journal of the proceedings of the Board of Regents follows p. 91.
Lecture on Arctic explorations, by I.I. Hayes, follows p. 148.
Lecture on the relations of time and space, by S. Alexander, follows p. 139.
Lectures on the construction of bridges, by Fairman Rogers, precedes p. 126.
List of birds ascertained to inhabit the District of Columbia, by Elliott Coes and D. Webster Prentiss, follows p. 398.
List of meteorological stations and observers of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1861 follows p. 68.
Memoir of Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, by M. Flourens, follows p. 160.
Notes on the history of petroleum or rock oil, by T. Sterry Hunt, follows p. 318.
Progress of astronomical photography, by Dr. Lee, follows p. 190.
Remarks on the small planets situated between Mars and Jupiter, by M.G. Lespiault, follows p. 198.
Report of the Executive Committee follows p. 87.
Report of the Secretary follows p. 12.
Report on nitrification, by R.F. Craig, follows p. 304.
Report to the commissioners of the museums of the Canton of Vaud, on the researches made at Concise, by Fred. Troyon, p. 376.
Report upon the antiquarian and ethnological collections of the Cantonal Museum at Lausanne, by Fred. Troya [i.e. Troyon], p. 367.
Suggestions relative to an ethnological map of North America, by Lewis H. Morgan, p. 397.
Synthetical studies and experiments on metamorphism and on the formation of crystalline rocks, by M. Daubree, follows p. 227.
Table of contents follows p. 454.
The fauna of Middle Europe during the Stone Age, by L. Rutimeyer, p. 361.
The lacustrian cities of Switzerland, by Elisee Reclus, follows p. 344.
The Sun: Its chemical analysis, according to the recent discoveries of M.M. Kirchoff and Bunsen, by Auguste Laugel, follows p. 174.
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