REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



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the year 1877. By W. H. Dall, United States Coast Survey. 1877. 

 8vo., 88 pp. 



Bulletin 9. — Contributions to North American Ichthyology, based pri- 

 marily on the Collections of the United National Museum. I. Review 

 of Rafinesque's Memoirs on North American Fishes. By David S. Jor- 

 dan. 1ST 7. 8vo., 53 pp. 



Bulletin 10. — Contributions to North American Ichthyology, based pri- 

 marily on the Collections of the United States National Museum. II. A. — 

 Notes on Cottidce, Mheostomiatidce, Percidce, Centrarchidw, Aphredode- 

 ridce, Borosomatidcv, and Cyprinidce, witb Revisions of the Genera and 

 Descriptions of New or Little Known Species. B. — Synopsis of the Si- 

 I iir idee of the Fresh Waters of North America. By David S. Jordan. 

 1877. Svo., 120 pp. 



Bulletin 11. — Bibliography of the Fishes of the Pacific United States. 

 By Theodore N. Gill. (In Press.) 



Bulletin 12. — Contributions to North American Ichthyology. III. A. 

 — On the Distribution of the Fishes of the Alleghany Region of South 

 Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee, with Descriptions of new or little 

 known species. By David S. Jordan and Alembert W. Brayton. B. — 

 A Synopsis of the Family Catostomidev. By David S. Jordan. 1878. 

 Svo., 237 pp. 



Bulletin 13. — Flora of St. Croix and the Virgin Islands. By Baron 

 H. F. A. Eggers. 1879. 8vo., 139 pp. 



Bulletin 11. — Catalogue of Collection illustrating the animal resources 

 and the Fisheries of the United States. Prepared under the direction 

 of G. Brown Goode. 1879. 8vo., 351 pp. 



Bulletin 15. — Contributions to the Natural History of Arctic America, 

 made in connection with the Ilowgate Polar Expedition, lS77-'78. By 

 Ludwig Kumlien, Naturalist of the Expedition. 1879. 8vo., 179 pp. 



Ethnology, Mammals, and Birds. By 



Lnchvig Kumlien. 

 Fishes. By Tarleton II. Bean. 

 Annelidts, Molluscoids, and Radi- 

 ates. By A. E. Verrill. 

 Mollusks. By W. II. Dall. 

 Insects : 



Diurnal Lepidoptera. By W. H. Ed- 

 wards. 



Insects : 

 Hymenoptcra, Nocturnal Lepidoptera, 

 Diptera, Coleoptera, Neuroptera, and 

 Araclmida. By S. H. Scudder and 

 others. 



Plants. By Asa Gray. 



Lichens. By Edward Tuckerman. 



ALii.E. By W. G. Farlow. 



Bulletin 10. — Synopsis of the Fishes of the United States. By David 

 S. Jordan. (In Press.) 



The fifteenth number of the Bulletin of the National Museum is wholly 

 made up of the interesting and novel notes of Mr. Ludwig Kumlien, who, 

 under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, in 1877-78, accom- 

 panied the Ilowgate polar expedition as naturalist. He passed the long 

 arctic winter of 1877-'78 in the little harbor of Annanactook, Cumber- 

 land Gulf, latitude 07° north, longitude G8^ 50' west. This sound, gulf, 

 or inlet of Cumberland extends from about latitude 05° north to latitude 



