Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 1861 [electronic resource]
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| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Washington, D.C.] :
[U.S. Government Printing Office],
1862.
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| Series: | Mis. doc. (United States. Congress. House) ;
37th Congress, 2nd session, no. 77. United States congressional serial set ; serial no. 1141. |
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| Item Description: | Ancient mounds at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1819, by T.R. Peale, page 386. Directions for observing the scintillation of the stars, by Ch. Dufour, follows page 219. Eulogy of Cornelius Conway Felton, by Theodore D. Woolsey, follows page 108. Eulogy of Stephen Arnold Douglas, by Samuel S. Cox, follows page 116. Explosibility of coal oils, by T. Allen, follows page 329. Index follows page 456. Instructions for archeological investigations in the United States, by George Gibbs, page 392. Journal of the proceedings of the Board of Regents follows page 91. Lecture on Arctic explorations, by I.I. Hayes, follows page 148. Lecture on the relations of time and space, by S. Alexander, follows page 139. Lectures on the construction of bridges, by Fairman Rogers, precedes page 126. List of birds ascertained to inhabit the District of Columbia, by Elliott Coes and D. Webster Prentiss, follows page 398. List of meteorological stations and observers of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1861 follows page 68. Memoir of Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, by M. Flourens, follows page 160. Notes on the history of petroleum or rock oil, by T. Sterry Hunt, follows page 318. Progress of astronomical photography, by Dr. Lee, follows page 190. Remarks on the small planets situated between Mars and Jupiter, by M.G. Lespiault, follows page 198. Report of the Executive Committee follows page 87. Report of the Secretary follows page 12. Report on nitrification, by R.F. Craig, follows page 304. Report to the commissioners of the museums of the Canton of Vaud, on the researches made at Concise, by Fred. Troyon, page 376. Report upon the antiquarian and ethnological collections of the Cantonal Museum at Lausanne, by Fred. Troya [i.e. Troyon], page 367. Suggestions relative to an ethnological map of North America, by Lewis H. Morgan, page 397. Synthetical studies and experiments on metamorphism and on the formation of crystalline rocks, by M. Daubree, follows page 227. Table of contents follows page 454. The fauna of Middle Europe during the Stone Age, by L. Rutimeyer, page 361. The lacustrian cities of Switzerland, by Elisee Reclus, follows page 344. The Sun: Its chemical analysis, according to the recent discoveries of M.M. Kirchoff and Bunsen, by Auguste Laugel, follows page 174. Batch processed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes. FDLP item number not assigned. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (463 pages) : illustrations, tables. |