Q6 PUBLICATIONS OF SPENCER F. BAIRD. 



80. 



1858. Baird, Spencer F. Catalogue | of | North American Birds, | chiefly in the 

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

 Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. | — | Washington : | Smithsonian 

 Institution. | October, 1858. | 4to, pp. xv-lvi. 



A large edition of this catalogue, a reprint of pp. xvii-lvi of the General Report on Birds, 

 was printed in Oct., 1858, and distributed as No. 106 of the publications of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



" Separate reissue, T. L. P., with new title-page, of pp. xvii-lvi of the author's m.ain work. 

 Besides the list of 738 spp., with habitats, these sheets contain a table of the higher groups, 

 list of extralimit.il species (23) which are included in the worli, and of those (31) claiming to 

 be North American, but not so identified, and a summary of the total number as variously 

 given by Wilson, Bonaparte, and Audubon. The species being all numbered, the brochure 

 was much used for several years for practically convenient reference to the. species by num- 

 ber."— (COUES.) 



81. 



1858. Baird, Spencer F. [Report for 1857 of the Assistant Secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution.] <^Ann. Bcp. Smithsonian Institution for the year 1857, 

 1858, pp. 38-54. 

 Details of the system of exchanges 44-48 



82. 



1858. Baird, Spencer F. Description of a Phyllostome Bat from California, in the 

 Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. <^Proc. Acad. 2iat. Sci. Phila., x, 

 1858, pp. 116, 117. Presented May 4, ordered published May 25, 1858. 



Macrotus californicus, Baird, n. s 116 



Fort Yuma, Cal. Maj. G. H. Thomas. 



83. 



1858. Baird, Spencer F. ''Description of anew Sparrow collected by Mr. Samuels 

 in California." < Proc. Bost. Soc. JSfat. Hist., vi, pp. 379, 380, Aug., 1858. 

 Read June 2. 



Ammodromus Samuclis, Baird, n. s 370 



Pet.iluma, Cal. E. Samuels. 



84. 



1858. [Baird, Spencer F.] Registry of Periodical Phenomena. <^ Directions for 

 Metorologionl Observations and the Registry of Periodical Phenomena, Smiths. 

 Misc. Coll. (148), pp. 63-68. 



Instructions for registering periodical phenomena of animal and vegetable life in North 

 America. 



85. 



1858. [Baird, Spencer F.] United States | Exploring Expedition. | During the years 

 I 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. [ Under the command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N. 

 Vol. XX. I — I Herpetology. | Prepared under the superiulendency of | S. F. 

 Baird. | With a folio Atlas. | — | Philadelphia : ] Printed by C. Sherman &, 

 Son. I 1858. - 4to. pp. (4), v-ix, 492. 



This book was not written by Professor Baird, who assures me that he did not touch pen 

 to it. The work was done entirely by Dr. Charles Girard, but through some technicality 

 his name was not allowed to appear on the title-page by the Naval authorities having the 

 m.itter in char o, who insisted in publishing the book under the name of Professor Baird, to 

 whom the original contract was given out. The matter is explained fully in the introduc- 

 tion, which is quoted entire :— 



" I^TUouucTiox.— The Joint Committee of the Library of Congress entered into an engage- 

 ment with the imdersigned, in 1857, to prepare tho Eeport upon the Herpetological collec- 

 tions made by the United States Exploring Expedition. Finding that other duties would 



