186 REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Ward, Lester F. — Continued. 



before the Biological Section of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science at Montreal, August 29, 1882. 



A statement of the physico-chemical theory of life. The discussion in a 

 much enlarged form is embodied in chapter iv (vol. i, pp. 300-356) of the 

 vrriter's work ''Dynamic Sociology." In press. 



White, Charles A. New molluscau forms from the Laramie and Green 

 Eiver groups, with discussion of some associated forms heretofore 

 known. 



(Proceedings U. S. National Museum, v, 1882, pp. 94-99, plates III and IV.) 



The molluscan fauna of the Truckee group, including a new 



form. 



(Proceedings wi the U. S. National Museum, v, 1882, pp. 99-101, plate v.) 



On certain condiirons attending the geological descent of some 



North American types of ficsh- water gill-bearing mollusks. 



(American Journal of Science, XXixX (3). pp. 382-386.) 



Fossils of the Indiana rocks, No. '^. 



(Eleventh Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Indiana, 1881, pp. 347- 

 401, plates 37-55.) 



Artesian wells upon the great plains. 



(North American Review, cxxxv, pp. 187-195.) 



Progress of invertebrate paleontology in the United States for 



the year 1881. 



(Amercan Naturalist, xn, pp. 837-891.) 

 Yarrow, H. C. The rapid preparation of large myological specimens, 

 by M. Felix Plateau. (Translated from the French.) 



(Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1881, iv, pp. 388-391.) 



II.— PAPERS BY INVESTIGATORS NOT OFFICERS OF THE MUSEUM. 



Belfast (Maine) Eepublican Journal. The successful propaga- 

 tion of codfish. 



(Quoted in Forest and Stream, No. 10, October 5, 1882, xix, pp. 192-193.) 



BiCKNELL, Eugene P. A sketch of the home of Hylocichla alicice hick- 

 nelUj Ridgway, with some critical remarks on the allies of the new 

 race. 



(Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, July, 1882, vii, pp. 152-159.) 



The critical remarks in this paper have more or less relation to Nationa 

 Museum material, 



Brewster, William. On Kennicott's owl and some of its allies, with 

 a description of a proposed new race. 



(Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, No. 1, January, 1882, vii, pp. 27-.33.) 



An elaborate and important review of the geographical races of Scops asio, 



based very largely on National Museum material, sent to Mr. Brewster for 



the puri)08e. 



