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Copernicus, labors and discoveries of..
Huyghens, labors and discoveries of..
Clairault, labors and discoveries of..
Cassini, labors and discoveries of...
D'Alembert, labors and discoveries of..
Lagrange, labors and discoveries of.
Adams, labors and discoveries of...
Halley, labors and discoveries of
Galileo, labors and discoveries of..
Bernouilli, labors and discoveries of.
Le Sage, labors and discoveries of.
Buffon, labors and discoveries of..
Asylums, warming and ventilation of..
Atkins, Charles G., salmon-hatching by.
Atomic theory..

Auroras, De la Rive's theory of ....

observations on, in Arctic regions..
records of...

Baird, Prof. Spencer F., Assistant Secretary of the Institution.....

fish inquiry and propagation in charge of.....
observation by, on temperature of sea-waters..
report of, on Museum...

review of American birds..

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elected Regent, vice General Sherman

Bank, First National, deposit with....

Barnard, General J. G., problems of rotary motion by..

Barnum, P. T., specimens from

Barometer, work on, to be undertaken..

Barracks, warming and ventilation of

Bartram, John, antiquities of Florida

Baumhauer, Professor, Smithsonian exchange-agent at Harlem.

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Belknap, Commander G. E., soundings on Tuscarora from

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Bessels, Dr. Emil, scientific results of Polaris Arctic expedition

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Bolton, Dr. H. Carrington, catalogue of scientific periodicals by
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Bryan, Oliver N., antiquities of Charles County, Maryland

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Catalogue of implements found in ancient graves in California
scientific periodicals, by Dr. H. C. Bolton .....

transactions of learned societies in Smithsonian library....

Chandler, L. H., specimens from

Chase, A. W., additions to collections by ...

Chase, Hon. S. P., change in the Board on account of death of.
Chemical formula, tables by F. W. Clarke .....

laboratory, operations in

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Coast-Survey, explorations and collections by..
Coffin, Prof. J. H., on winds of the globe

Coffin, Prof. Selden J., completion of work on winds by.
Coggia, comets observed by....

Coleman, J. T., specimens from

Coleoptera, classification of, by Dr. John L. LeConte

new species of, by Dr. John L. LeConte .

'Collaborators in natural history

Collecting apparatus lent to fifteen expeditions
Collections, appropriation for preservation of..
Colleges, warming and ventilation of..

Comets, detected in 1874 .....

La Place's method of determining orbits of .
research relative to.....

Congress, appropriation by, for National Museum....

printing of 10,500 reports ordered by

Constants of nature, part 1, specific gravities, &c., by F. W. Clarke

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Cope, Professor E. D., explorations by....

reptiles and fishes referred to.
Coppée, Prof. Henry, acts of, as Regent.....

elected Regent, vice Mr. Astor
report on National Museum

Copper mining on Lake Superior.............

Copyright not taken on Smithsonian publications.

Corcoran Art Gallery, Smithsonian deposit with.
Corresponding institutions, number of foreign

Couch, Gen. D. N., minerals from....

Coues, Dr. Elliot, collaborator in mammalogy and ornithology.

collections and observations by

specimens from

Cox, Hon. S. S., acts of, as Regent...

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Cresson, E. T., insects referred to..

Creveling, James P., specimens from....

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Cushing, Frank H., antiquities of Orleans County, New York..........

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Dana, Prof. J. D., elected Regent, vice Dr. Woolsey

Davenport Academy Natural Sciences, explorations by

Davenport, George L., statement of, relative to ancient mounds
Davis, A. C., antiquities of Isle Royale......

Davy, electrical discoveries of..

De Candolle, A., on a dominant language for science..

Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis..
De la Rive, Prof. Arthur Auguste, eulogy on, by M. Dumas....

on Lemström's observations on electricity....
report on transactions of Geneva Society of
Physics and Natural History.............

De la Rive, Charles Gaspard, notice of .

Departments. (See Agriculture, State, War, Navy, and Interior.)
De Saussure, Professor, monograph on American vespidæ or wasps.
Diebitsch, Hermann, exchange clerk

Diptera, monograph of, Ortalida family, by H. Loew

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duplicate specimens..

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Donations. (See Library and Museum.)

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Electroplating, originated by De la Rive.....

Elliott, Henry W., additions to collections by.
Emerton, J. H., insects referred to

Egyptian antiquities, presented to Museum...

Electricity of the atmosphere in the arctic regions, Lemström....

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to Congress for museum appropriations..

Endlich, Dr. F. M., explorations by.

mineralogist of National Museum...
specimens from......

Engelmann, Dr. George, plants referred to

Engineers, United States, explorations by

Engravings and etchings deposited in Corcoran Art Gallery ...

Escher, Arnold, account of, by De la Rive......
Esquimaux, ethnological collections of

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ancient graves and shell-heaps of California, by Paul Schumacher..
account of the burial of an Indian squaw, California, by W. M.
King......

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ancient mounds of Mercer County, Illinois, by T. McWhorter
antiquities of Whiteside County, Illinois, by W. H. Pratt....

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a study of skulls and long bones, from mounds near Albany, Illinois,
by Dr. R. J. Farquharson....

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the shell-bed skull, by A. S. Tiffany.....

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antiquities of Northern Ohio, by Dr. George W. Hill.

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the age of stone and troglodytes of Breckinridge County, Kentucky,
by R. S. Robertson........

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Blount County, Tennessee, by Miss Annie E. Law.
Orleans County, New York, by Frank H. Cushing.

La Porte County, Indiana, by R. S. Robertson..

Allen and De Kalb Counties, Indiana, by R. S. Robertson

Jackson County, Tennessee, by Rev. Joshua Haile, communicated
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Everett, Prof. J. D., on under-ground temperatures.

Exchanges, account of system of international

resolution of Regents that aid may be received from societies, &c.

rules of the system

services of Miss Jane Turner.

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Executive Committee, report of...

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Fish commission, collections by......

Fishes, arrangement of families of, by Dr. Theodore Gill..

Fitzhugh, jr., D. F., specimens from

Faraday, experiments of.....

Farquharson, Dr. R. J., study of skulls and bones from mounds in Illinois..

Finances of the Institution, condition of....

Fish, inquiry and propagation, in charge of Professor Baird...

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Flugel, Dr. Felix, Smithsonian exchange-agent in Leipsic..
Fog-signals, Professor Henry's investigations on

Foreign centers of Smithsonian exchanges...

establishments in correspondence with Smithsonian..
Foreman, Prof. Edward, collaborator in ethnology
Fossils, arranged in Museum....

discovery of. (See Explorations.)

Foster, J. G., on mound-builders' skulls.....

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