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

Contributor: Alexander, S. [Other]; Allen, T. [Other]; Coues, Elliott [Other]; Cox, Samuel Sullivan [Other]; Craig, B.F. [Other]; Daubree, Auguste [Other]; Dufour, Charles [Other]; Flourens, Pierre [Other]; Gibbs, George [Other]; Hayes, Isaac Israel [Other]; Hunt, Thomas Sterry [Other]; Laugel, Auguste [Other]; Lespiault, M.G. [Other]; Morgan, Lewis Henry [Other]; Peale, Titian Ramsay [Other]; Prentiss, D. Webster [Other]; Reclus, Elisee [Other]; Rogers, Fairman [Other]; Rutimeyer, Ludwig [Other]; Troyon, Frederick [Other]; Woolsey, Theodore Dwight [Other]

Corporation: Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents

imprint: Washington, DC, 1862
Online-Ausg.: Chester, Vt: NewsBank, inc, 2004

Extent: Online-Ressource (463 p); illustrations, tables

Language: English

Reproductino series: U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980

Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.

Place of reproduction: Chester, Vt: NewsBank, inc, 2004

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Footnote: 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 Sun: Its chemical analysis, according to the recent discoveries of M.M. Kirchoff and Bunsen, by Auguste Laugel, follows p. 174
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
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