TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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I. INTRODUCTION. Pp. 16.

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ARTICLE II. ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS IN THE ARCTIC SEAS. By ELISHA KENT

KANE, M.D., U. S. N. MADE DURING THE SECOND GRINNELL EXPEDITION

IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN, IN 1853, 1854, AND 1855, AT VAN

RENSSELAER HARBOR AND OTHER POINTS IN THE VICINITY OF THE NORTH-

WEST COAST OF GREENLAND. REDUCED AND DISCUSSED BY CHARLES A.
SCHOTT, Assistant U. S Coast Survey. Pp. 56, and one plate. (Pub-
lished May, 1860.)

ARTICLE III. ON FLUCTUATIONS OF LEVEL IN THE NORTH AMERICAN LAKES. By CHARLES

WHITTLESEY. Pp. 28, and two plates. (Published July, 1860.)

ARTICLE IV. METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS MADE AT PROVIDENCE, R. I. EXTENDING

OVER A PERIOD OF TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS AND A HALF, FROM DECEMBER,

1831, to May, 1860. By ALEXIS CASWELL, Professor of Natural Philo-

sophy and Theology in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
Pp. 188. (Published October, 1860.)

ARTICLE V. METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS MADE NEAR WASHINGTON, ARK. EXTENDING

OVER A PERIOD OF TWENTY-YEARS, FROM 1840 TO 1859 INCLUSIVE. By

Nathan D. SMITH, M. I). Pp. 96. (Published October, 1860.)

ARTICLE VI. RESEARCHES UPON THE VENOM OF THE RATTLESNAKE: WITH AN INVESTIGA-

TION OF THE ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE ORGANS CONCERNED. By
S. WEIR MITCHELL, M. D., Lecturer on Physiology in the American
Medical Association. Pp. 156, and twelve wood-cuts. (Published De-
cember, 1860.)

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