CmiUNOLOGICAL CATALOGUE. 75- 



89. 

 Baird, Spencer F. Report for 18.')8 of the Assistant Secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. <^ Ann. Hep. Smiths. Inst, for the year 1858, 1859, pp. 44-62» 

 Present condition of the Museum. 



[Materials contained in the Museum of tbe Smithsonian Institution], pp. 52-5.'>. 

 An enumeration of 49 collections, which chiefly make up the Museum. 



90. 

 Baird, Spencer F. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. | — | Directions | 

 for I collecting, preserving, and transporting | specimens of natural history. | 

 Prepared for the use of | the Smithsonian Institution. | [Seal of Smithsonian 

 Institution.] | [Third edition.] | Washington: Smithsonian Institution. | 

 March, 1859. 8vo. i>p. 40, G cuts. 



No. 34, S. I. In Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. H, Art. VII. 

 91. 

 Baird, Spencer F. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. | — | Catalogue | 

 of I North American Birds | chiefly in the Museum of the | Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution. I By I Spencer F. Baird. | [First octavo edition.] | [Seal of Smith- 

 sonian Institution.] | Washington: | Smithsonian Institution. | 1859. 8vo. 

 2 p. 11., pp. 19 + 2. 



This catalogue is a reprint, with some changes from the one in quarto forming a portion of 

 the Report on North American Birds in Vol. IX < f the Reports of the Pacific Railroad Sur- 

 vey, and published as a separate paper by the Smithsonian Institution in October, 1858. Ita 

 object was to facilitate the labeling of the specimens of birds and eggs in the Museum of the 

 Institution, as also to serve the puipose of a check-list of the species. 



A special edition was printed on one side of the paper only for labeling, also an edition on 

 thin blue paper for mailing. 



In the octavo edition the note on habitat and the references to the pages. of the report, which 

 were included in the quarto edition, are omitted, the serial number of the species, the scien- 

 tific name, and the common name alone being given. 



This publication was issued as No. 108 of the Smithsonian series, and was included in Vol. 

 H of the Miscellaneous Collections. Several editions have in subsequent years been struck 

 off from the same plates, and probably 10,000 copies of the catalogue have been distributed. 



This is the most usual form of the " Smithsonian Catalogue" of North American birds, 

 which has become a classical work among ornithologists, and in accordance with which the 

 majority of American collections of skins and eggs are labeled. A revision of this, from 

 the hand of Robert Ridgway, is now in press. 

 92. 

 Baird, Spencer F. Explorations and surveys for a railroad route from the 

 Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. | War Department. | — | Reptiles: | 

 By Spencer F. Baird, | Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



I — I Washington, D. C. | 1859. <"|i gesswu^' | House of Representatives. 

 > N 91*^ ' — I I^'^P^'i'ts I of I explorations and surveys, | to | ascertain the 

 most practicable and economical route for a railroad | from the | Mississippi 

 River to the Pacific Ocean. | Made under the direction of the Secretary of War, 

 in I 1853-6. | According to acts of Congress of March 3, 1853, May 31, 1854, 

 and August 5, 1854. | — | Volume X. | — | Washington : | A. O. P. Nicholson, 

 printer. | 1859. Parts iii and iv. 4to. First article. No text, pll. xxiv-xxvi.* 



This report consists entirely of plates, the test being omitted. 



" As the general repoit on the reptiles of "Western North America, observed by the differ- 

 ent exploring parties, has been excluded from the series for want of room, all that can be 

 given here is an explanation of the plates prepared for this report. These represent the de- 

 tails of external form in different species of North American Serpents. * * * The figures 

 have, as far as possible, been taken from the type-specimens of the species, especially those 

 described in the Catalogue of Serpents in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution (1853), 

 to which the page-column refers." 



* "The make-up of the tenth volume of the Pacific Railroad Reports is such that it might 

 be styled the 'Bibliographer's Despair'; it contains about 20 difierent title-pages and a cor- 

 responding number of different paginations." — Gill &■ Coues. 



