ANNUAL REPORTS 5 



No. 4. Fire-making apparatus in the U. S, National Museum. By Walter 



Hough. Pp. 531-S87, 60 figa. (some of them appearing on 8 pis.). 



No. 5 The collection of Korean mortuary pottery in the U. S. National 



Museum. By Pierre Louis Jouy. Pp. 589-596, 5 pis., 1 map. 

 No. 6. A 8tudy of prehistoric anthropology. By Thomas Wilson. Pp. 597- 



671, 43 figs., 20 pis. 

 No. 7. Ancient Indian matting — from Petit Anie Island, Louisiana. By 



Thomas Wilson. Pp. 673-675, 1 pi. 

 No. 8. Results of an inquiry as to the existence of man in North America 

 during the Paleolithic period of the Stone Age. By Thomai Wil- 

 son. Pp. 677-702, 14 figs. 

 Pt. 4. Bibliography of the Museum. Pp. 705-734. 

 Pt. 5. List of accessions. Pp. 737-819. 

 Report of the United States National Museum for the year ending June 30, 1889. 

 Pt. 1. Report upon condition and progress of the Museum. By G. Brown Goode. 



Pp. 1-277. 

 Pt. 2. Reports of the curators. Pp. 281-423, 11 pis. 



Pt. 3. Papers describing and illustrating the collections in the U. S. National 

 Museum. 

 No. 1. The museums of the future. By G. Brown Goode. Pp. 427-445. 

 No. 2. Te Pito Te Henua, or Easter Island. By William J. Thomson. Pp. 



447-552, 20 figs., 49 pis. 

 No. 3. Aboriginal skin-dressing; a study based on material in the U. S. 



National Museum. By Otis T. Mason. Pp. 553-589, 33 pis. 

 No. 4. The puma, or American lion {Felis concolor of Linnaeus). By 



Frederick W. True. Pp. 591-608, 1 pi. 

 No. 5. Animals recently extinct or threatened with extermination, as repre- 

 sented in the collections of the U. S. National Museum. By Fred- 

 eric A. Lucas. Pp. 609-649, 2 figs., 7 maps, 10 pis. 

 No. 6. The development of the American rail and track, as illustrated by 

 the collection in the U. S. National Museum. By J. Elfreth Wat- 

 kins. Pp. 651-708, 115 figs. 

 No. 7. Explorations in Newfoundland and Labrador in 1887, made in con- 

 nection with the cruise of the U. S. Fish Commission schooner 

 Grampus. By Frederic A. Lucas. Pp. 709-728, 1 pi. 

 No. 8. On a bronze Buddha in the U. S. National Museum. By Charles De 

 Kay. Pp. 729-735, 1 pi. 

 Pt. 4. Bibliography of the Museum. Pp. 739-776. 

 Pt. 5. List of accessions. Pp. 779-843. 



Appendix E, Preliminary handbook of the Department of Geology in the 

 U. S. National Museum. Pp. 1-50. 

 Report of the United States National Museum for the year ending June 30, 1890. 

 Pt. 1. Report upon condition and progress of the Museum. By G. Brown Goode. 



Pp. 1-116. 

 Pt. 2. Reports of the curators. Pp. 119-249. 



Pt. 3. Papers describing and illustrating the collections in the U. S. National 

 Museum. 

 No. 1. The humming birds. By Robert Ridgway. Pp. 253-383, 47 figs., 44 



pis. 

 No. 2. White-line engraving for relief-printing in the 15th and 16th cen- 

 turies. By S. R. Koehler. Pp. 385-394, 3 figs., 4 pis. 

 No. 3. The methods of fire-making. By Walter Hough. Pp. 395-409. 11 



figs., 1 pi. 

 No. 4. The ulu, or woman's knife, of the Eskimo. By Otis T. Mason. Pp. 



411-416, 21 pis. 

 No. 5. The ancient pit-dwellers of Yezo. By Romyn Hitchcock. Pp. 417-427, 



4 figs., 8 pis. 

 No. 6. The Ainos of Yezo, Japan. By Romyn Hitchcock. Pp. 429-502, 21 

 figs,, 37 pis. 



