CONTENTS. VII 



Page. 



Appendix to the Report o» the Secretaey .")7 



Correspondence on Astronomical Annonncements 57 



Report on Exchanges for 1882 77 



Revision of List of Correspondents 79 



Receipts for foreign transmission 82 



Receipts for domestic transmission 85 



Receipts for Government transmission 86 



Foreign transmissions 86 



Shipping agents 90 



Domestic transmissions 92 



Government transmissions 102 



List of official publications 107 



Report of Assistant Director of the U. S. National Museum for 1882 119 



Museum Library ; 121 



Publications of the Museum 121 



Department of the Curators 127 



Appendix A. List of officers of the Museum for 1882 167 



Appendix B. Bibliography of Museum work for 1882 167 



Appendix C. Accessions to Museum in 1882 195 



Appendix D. List of contributors to the Museum for 1882 231 



Acts and Resolutions of Congress relative to the Smithsonian Institution 



and National Museum 264 



GENERAL APPENDIX. 



I.— Record of recent scientific progress 273 



Introduction, by S. F. Baird 273 



Astronomy, by E. S. Holden 277 



Geology, by T. Sterry Hunt 325 



Geography, by F. M. Green 347 



Meteorology, etc., by Cleveland Abbe 365 



Physics, by G. F. Barker 459 



Chemistry, by H. Carrington Bolton .509 



Mineralogy, by Edward S. Dana 533 



Botany, by W. G. Farlow 551 



Zoology, by Theodore Gill 565 



Anthropology, by O. T. Mason 633 



II. — Miscellaneous papers 675 



Papers relating to Anthropology 675 



The Guatuso Indians of Costa Rica, by Leon Fernandez 675 



Note, by J. F. Bransford 677 



Remains in White River Canon, by R. T. Bron 681 



Remains in Iowa (Henry County), by George C. Van Allen 682 



Remains in Illinois (Carroll County), by James M. Williamson 683 



Remains in Illinois (MississipY)i bottom), by Wm. McAdams 684 



Remains in Illinois (near Naples), by John G. Henderson 686 



Remains in Indiana (Franklin County), by G. W. Homsher 721 



Remains in Indiana (White Water River), by G. W. Homsher 728 



Remains in Ohio (Butler County), by J. P. MacLean 752 



Remains in Ohio (Blennerhassett's Island), by J. P. MacLean 759 



Remains in Tennessee (Carrol County), by James M. Null 768 



Remains in Georgia (Putnam County), by Benjamin W. Kent , 770 



Remains in Florida, by J. Francis Le Baron 771 



Remains in Florida (gold and silver ornaments), by J. Francis Le Baron. 791 



