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Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 1862.

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  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (446 pages) : illustrations, maps, tables
  • Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : [U.S. Government Printing Office], 1863.

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General Note:
Account of human remains from Patagonia, by A. Ried, p. 426.
An introductory lecture to the study of high antiquity, by A. Morlot, follows p. 302.
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Eulogy for Hon. James A. Pearce, of Maryland, United States senator, one of the regents of the Smithsonian Institution, follows p. 99.
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General appendix to the Report for 1862 follows p. 103.
Historical sketch of the Academy of Sciences of Paris, by M. Flourens, follows p. 336.
Index follows p. 440.
Index to Lectures on the undulatory theory follows p. 231.
Journal of the proceedings of the Board of Regents follows p. 77.
Lectures on the undulatory theory of light, by F.A.P. Barnard, precedes p. 108.
Lectures: Physical ethnology, by Daniel Wilson, follows p. 239.
List of meteorological stations and observers of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1862 follows p. 61.
Memoir of Leopold Von Buch, by M. Flourens, follows p. 357.
Memoir of Louis Jacques Thenard, by M. Flourens, follows p. 372.
Memoir of M. Isidore Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, by M. de Quatrefages, follows p. 383.
North American archaeology, by John Lubbock, p. 318.
On atoms, by John Herschel, p. 413.
On the classification of books, by J.P. Lesley, p. 416.
Report of the Executive Committee follows p. 74.
Report of the Secretary follows p. 12.
Table of contents follows p. 438.
The catalytic force, or studies on the phenomena of contact: A prize memoir, by T.L. Phipson, p. 413.
Subject: Archaeology.
Atomic theory.
Civil engineering.
Discoveries in geography.
Discovery and exploration.
Ethnology.
Financial statements.
Human remains (Archaeology).
Learned institutions and societies.
Light.
Management.
Meteorological stations.
Meteorology.
Physics.
Research.
Weather forecasting.
Genre: Legislative materials.