478 CATALOGUE OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION (1846-1882,) WITH AN ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF ARTICLES IN THE SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS To Knowledge, MISCELLANEOUS COL- OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. BY WILLIAM J. RHEES, CHIEF CLERK OF THE INSTITUTION. WASHINGTON: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS, Regular Series, 1-478 3 91 92 92 Table showing date, number of pages, illustrations, &c. MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS— 108 Table showing date, number of pages, illustrations, &c. ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE INSTITUTION 109 Table showing date, number of pages, illustrations, &c. PUBLICATIONS OF THE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 110 111 Table showing titles, number in Smithsonian series, &c. BULLETINS OF THE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM— Table showing date, number of pages, illustrations, &c. BULLETINS OF THE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM, collected in volumesTable showing date, number of pages, illustrations, &c. 112 112 PROCEEDINGS OF THE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM Table showing date, number of pages, illustrations, &c. PUBLICATIONS OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY— Table showing date, number of pages, illustrations, &c. Publications having separate numbers in the Smithsonian series but included in the Annual Reports of the Institution Publications not included in regular series of "Contributions," "Collections," or "Reports" 113 114 116 List of papers published in the Contributions to Knowledge, giving authors, titles, and commissions of reference. 117 ALPHABETICAL INDEX of all articles in Smithsonian publications 121 PREFACE. The present catalogue embraces all the articles published by the Smithsonian Institution from its organization in 1846 to the first of July, 1882, a period of thirty-six years. At the beginning nothing was issued but pamphlets explanatory of the plan of the Institution and brief annual reports of the proceedings of the Board of Regents, indicated in the catalogue by the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, Q. An elaborate work, (P in the catalogue), by ROBERT DALE OWEN, on public architecture, with special reference to the plans of the Smithsonian Institution, prepared on behalf of the Building Committee, was printed at the expense of the Institution in 1849, but did not form part of the regular series organized by the Secretary of the Institution, Prof. Henry. 1. SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE. The series entitled "Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge," in quarto form, was commenced in 1848 by the publication of Squier and Davis' Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley. The following "Advertisement" of the first volume, prepared by Prof. Henry, has been inserted in every succeeding volume to indicate the character and design of the series: "This volume is intended to form the first of a series of volumes, consisting of original memoirs on different branches of knowledge published at the expense and under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution. The publication of this series forms part of a general plan adopted for carrying into effect the benevolent intentions of James Smithson, Esq., of England. This gentleman left his property in trust to the United States of America to found at Washington an institution which should bear his own name, and have for its objects the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.' This trust was accepted by the Government of the United States, and an act of Congress was passed August 10, 1846, constituting the President and the other principal executive officers of the General Government, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the Mayor of Washington, and such other persons as they might elect honorary members, an establishment under the name of the 'Smithsonian Institution, for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among |