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fortunately delayed in its issue by the Government Printing Office; tlie 

 first part, that relating to the Institution, having been published in the 

 preceding year. The Museum Report forms an octavo volume of ix-f- 

 458 pages, illustrated by 105 wood-cut plates. 



649. " Annual Keport of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the 

 Institution to July, 1885. Part I." Owing to the change made by the 

 Eegents in the period o^the Secretary's report, from the civil or calen- 

 dar year to the fiscal year of the United States Government, this report 

 of the condition of the Institution embraced only the first six months 

 of the year 1885; or from January to June, inclusive. The volume 

 contains the Journal of Proceedings of the Board of Regents, the re- 

 port of the Executive Committee, the report of the Secretary of the 

 Institution fjor six months, supplemented by the report on Exchanges, 

 followed by the " General Appendix," in which is given a record of 

 scientific progress for 1885, in astronomy, by William C. Winlock ; with 

 a list of astronomical observatories, by George H. Boehmer ; in vulcan- 

 ology and seismology, by Charles G. Rockwood ; volcanic eruptions and 

 earthquakes in Iceland within historic times (from the Icelandic of Th. 

 Thoroddsen) ; geography, by J. King Goodrich; physics, by George F. 

 Barker; chemistry, by U. Carrington Bolton; mineralogy, by Edward 

 S. Dana; bibliography of North American invertebrate pakneontology, 

 by J. B. Marcou; zoology, by Theodore Gill; and anthropology, by 

 Otis T. Mason ; concluding with miscellaneous anthropological papers by 

 correspondents; observations on stone-chipping, by George E. Sellers; 

 copper implements from Bayfield, Wis., by Charles Whittlesey ; ancient 

 ruins in Ohio, by J. P. MacLean ; a primitive store-house of the Creek 

 Indians, by Charles C. Jones,, jr.; shell-heaps and mounds in Florida, 

 by James Shepard ; ancient earth-works in China, by Mark Williams ; 

 plan for American ethnological investigation, by the late Henry R. 

 Schoolcraft; index to the literature of Uranium, by H. Carrington 

 Bolton ; and price-list of the publications of the Smithsonian Institution. 

 The whole forms an octavo volume of xviii + 996 pages, illustrated by 

 19 figures. 



651. " Report of Prof. Spencer F. Baird, Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, for the year 1885-'86." Octavo pamphlet of 83 pages. 



The volume containing the above report, with its accompanying pa- 

 pers, together with the second part containing the report of the Museum, 

 has not yet appeared. The usual concurrent resolution of Congress 

 directing the printing of 16,000 copies of the reports for 1885-'86, failed 

 to pass the House at its last session although it had passed the Senate 

 in time. This has unfortunately delayed the issue of these volumes. 



Publications of the Bureau of Ethnology. — "Fourth Annual Report of 

 the Bureau of EMmology, to the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-'83," 

 by J. W. Powell, Director. The official report of the Director, occupy- 



