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By W. H. Dall. Descriptions of new forms of inollusks from Alaska, 

 contained, in the collections of the National Museum ; Post-pliocene 

 fossils in the coast range of California; fossil mollusks from later Ter- 

 tiaries of California; note on shells from Costa Rica, Kitchenmidden, 

 collected by Drs. Flint and Bransford; distribution of Californian Ter- 

 tiary fossils; descriptions of new species of shells from California in the 

 collections of the National Museum ; report on the limpets and chitons 

 of the Alaskan and Arctic region, with descriptions of genera and 

 species believed to be new. 



By Yinal N. Edwards. On the occurrence of the oceanic bonito in 

 Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts. 



By Theodore Gill. Synopsis of the pediculate fishes of the eastern 

 coast of extratropical North America; note on the Antennariidce ; on 

 the proper specific name of the common pelagic autennariid Pterophryne; 

 note on the Geratiidce ; note on the Maltheidas. 



By G. Brown Goode. The Clupea tyrannus of Latrobe. The occur- 

 rence of Belone latimanus in Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts ; the voices 

 of crustaceans; a revision of the American species of the genus Brevoortia, 

 with a description of a new species from the Gulf of Mexico; the oc- 

 currence of Hippocampus antiquorum or an allied form on Saint George's 

 banks ; the occurrence of the Canada porcupine in West Virginia; on two 

 fishes from the Bermudas, mistakenly described as new by Dr. Giinther. 



By G. Brown Goode and Tarleton H. Bean. The Craig flounder of 

 Europe on the coast of North America; the oceanic bonito on the coast 

 of the United States; description of Caulolatilus microps, a new species 

 of fish from the gulf coast of Florida ; on a new serranoid fish from the 

 Bermudas and Florida; descriptions of two new species of fishes from 

 the coast of Florida ; a note upon the black grouper of the southern 

 coast; descriptions of two gadoid fishes from the deep-sea fauna of the 

 Northwestern Atlantic ; description of Argentina syrtensium, a new 

 deep-sea fish from Sable Island bank ; the identity of Ehinonemus 

 caudacuta, Gill, with Gadns timbrius, Linn. ; note on Platessa ferruginea, 

 D. II. Storer, and Platessa rostrata, H. B. Storer; on the identity of 

 Brosmius am< rieantis, Gill, with Brosmius brosme, White. 



By J. B. S. Jackson. Arsenic acid for protecting anatomical prepara- 

 tions from insects. 



By Lieut. J. P. Jefferson. On the mortality of fishes in the Gulf of 

 Mexico in 1878. 



By Lieut. J. P. Jefferson, Dr. Joseph Y. Porter, and Thomas Moore 

 On the destruction of fish in the vicinity of the Tortugas during the 

 months of September and October, 1878. 



By David S. Jordan. Notes on a collection of fishes from Clackamas 

 River, Oregon. 



By David S. Jordan and Charles H. Gilbert. Notes on the fishes of 

 Beaufort Harbor, North Carolina. 



By George N. Lawrence. Catalogue of the birds of Dominica, from 

 S. Mis. 51 3 



