Page. ON SOME METHODS OF INTERPOLATION APPLICABLE TO THE GRADUATION OF IRREGULAR SERIES, such as tables of mortality, etc., by Erastus L. De Forest. REPORT ON THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE SOCIETY OF PHYSICS AND NATURAL HIS- TORY OF GENEVA, from June, 1870, to June, 1871, by Henry De Saussure... EXPEDITION TOWARD THE NORTH POLE : Instructions to Captain Hall, by Hon. George M. Robeson, Secretary of Letter of Professor Joseph Henry, President of the National Academy of Sciences, with instructions to Captain C. F. Hall for the scientific opera- Indian mounds near Fort Wadsworth, Dakota, by Dr. A. J. Comfort........ Antiquities on the Cache la Poudre River, Weld County, Colorado Terri- Antiquities in Lenoir County, North Carolina, by J. Mason Spainhour Account of the old Indian village, Kushkushkee, near Newcastle, Pennsyl- METEOROLOGY-Continued. Connection of gales of wind, and appearance of the aurora, by R. T. Knight, Page. 461 Account of a storm in Butler County, Kansas, June 23, 1871, by William 462 Additions to collections in 1871 INDEX. Agassiz, L., instructions to Captain Hall relative to Glaciers.... Agriculture, Department of, action of, in relation to meteorology. Algæ, fresh-water, by Dr. H. C. Wood Alternate generation and parthenogenesis in the animal kingdom.... Altitudes, circular printed.... Anderson, Benjamin, exploration to Musardo... Antiquities. (See Ethnology.) Appendix, general.............. Appropriations from Congress for Government collections Arago, M., biography of Fourier Army Medical Museum Library Arrow-heads, Indian mode of making Astronomy, instructions for exploration to North Pole... Astronomy. (See Herschel.) Astronomy. (See Stockwell.) Aurora, (see Meteorology) Baird, S. F., instructions to Captain Hall, (Natural history).............. Baird, Professor S. F., investigations of, as Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries.. Barnard, General J. G., on rotary motion Berthoud, E. S., antiquities in Colorado Botany. (See Reichardt.) (See Hall.) Brown, D., shell-heap in Georgia............ Building, changes made in, and improvements necessary Casts placed in National Museum..... Catlin, George, Indian cartoons and collections.... Catlin, George, Indian collection of, should be purchased by Government... Certificate of examination and approval of accounts.... Cesnola, Mr., collections from.... Chase, S. P., acts of, as Regent.. Chemistry. (See Graham.) Claparede, Edward, notice of Coffin, Professor J. H., discussion of winds Colfax, S., acts of, as Regent...... Collaborators in natural history. Collections, account of Collections, additions to.... Collins, Colonel, meteorology of Green River country Congress, appropriations from, for Government collections Copyright system.... Correspondence of the Institution, account of. Page. 43 387 105 32 15 235 17 20 107 .14, 101 137 23 420 367 .375, 451 381 27 15 402 423 38 39 40 41 102 33 104 356 24 104 31 26 43 453 40 389 14, 101 14 15 .103, 104 23 34 De Saussure, Henry, report on transactions of Geneva Society of Physics and Indian mounds near Fort Wadsworth, Dakota, by A. J. Comfort.... antiquities in Lenoir County, North Carolina, by J. M. Spainhour... 109 21 43 102 32 309 389 402 403 404 406 Pima Indians of Arizona, by F. E. Grossmann.. 407 Indian mode of making arrow-heads and obtaining fire, by George 420 ancient mound near Lexington, Kentucky, by Robert Peter. 4:20 language of the Dakota or Sioux Indians, by F. L. O. Ræhrig. 434 Fishes' food, inquiries relative to, by Professor Baird................ Foreign institutions in correspondence with Smithsonian Institution.. Fourier, Joseph, biography of, by M. Arago.... Franking privilege desired by Smithsonian Freights free by railroad and steamship lines Fund, statement of Smithson Fungi, researches on.. Garfield, J. A., acts of, as Regent.. Gases, researches on. (See Graham.) 51 5 99 100 26 15 13.99 420 27 16, 19 137 103, 105 19 13,99 249 104 |