HONORARY MEMBER.


James Harlan.     The Secretary of the Interior.


TABLE OF CONTENTS.[1]

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ARTICLE I.Introduction. Pp. 16.
Advertisementiii
List of Officers of the Smithsonian Institutionix
ARTICLE II.Discussion of the Magnetic and Meteorological Observations made atthe Girard College Observatory, Philadelphia, in 1840, 1841, 1842,1843, 1844, and 1845. Third Section, comprising Parts VII, VIII,AND IX. Vertical Force. Investigation of the Eleven (or Ten)Year Period and of the Disturbances of the Vertical Component ofthe Magnetic Force, and Appendix on the Magnetic Effect of theAurora Borealis; with an Investigation of the Solar DiurnalVariation, and of the Annual Inequality of the Vertical Force;and of the Lunar Effect or the Vertical Force, the inclination, andTotal Force. By A. D. Bache, LL. D., F. R. S., Mem. Corr. Acad.Sc. Paris; Prest. Nat. Acad. Sciences; Superintendent U. S. Coast Survey.Pp. 72. (Published May, 1864.)
ARTICLE III. Discussion of the Magnetic and Meteorological Observations made atthe Girard College Observatory, Philadelphia, in 1840, 1841, 1842,1843, 1844, and 1845. Fourth Section, comprising Parts X, XI, ANDXII. Dip and Total Force. Analysis of the Disturbances of theDip and Total Force; Discussion of the Solar Diurnal Variationand Annual Inequality of the Dip and Total Force; and Discussionof the Absolute Dip, with the Final Values for Declination, Dipand Force between 1841 and 1845. By A. D. Bache, LL. D., F. R. S.,Mem. Corr. Acad. Sc. Paris; Prest. Nat. Acad. Sciences; SuperintendentU. S. Coast Survey. Pp. 44. (Published January, 1865.)
ARTICLE IV.On the Construction of a Silvered Glass Telescope, fifteen and a halfinches in Aperture, and its Use in Celestial Photography. ByHenry Draper, M. D., Professor of Natural Science in the University ofNew York. Pp. 60. (Published July, 1864.)
§1. Grinding and Polishing the Mirrors2
§2. The Telescope Mounting27
§3. The Clock Movement38
§4. The Observatory41
§5. The Photographic Laboratory46
§6. The Photographic Enlarger51
ARTICLE V.Palæontology of the Upper Missouri: A Report upon Collections madeprincipally by the Expeditions under command of Lieut. G. K. Warren,U. S. Top. Engrs., in 1855 and 1856. Invertebrates. By F. B.Meek and F. V. Hayden, M. D. Part I. Pp. 158, and five Plates.(Published April, 1865.)
Introductory Remarksvii
I. Silurian Age. Potsdam Period1
II. Carboniferous Age. Carboniferous Period11
III. Carboniferous Age. Permian Period48
IV. Reptilian Age. Jurassic Period66
Index129
Explanations of Plates.
ARTICLE VI.Cretaceous Reptiles of the United States. By Joseph Leidy, M. D.,Professor of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, Curator of theAcademy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Pp. 140 and twenty plates.(Published May, 1865.)
Introduction1
Sauria5
Chelonia104
A Synopsis, in which an attempt is made to define more closely the Generaand Species of Reptiles whose remains are described in the preceding pages115
Index121
References to the Plates123

SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE.