682 REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1886. 



F. Du Cane Godman aud O. Salvin. Biohujia Centrali- Americana, Aves. Vol. i, 



pp. 345-392. 



Three parts relating to oruitholos.V wore issued (luriu>; the year 1885-'86, treating of a part 

 of the Fringillidce. References to Museum ,speoimeus are very frequent throughout this great 

 and important work, which is being issued in parts, and is not yet completed. 



G. Brown Goode. A brief biography of the Halibut. 



American Naturalist, xix, No. 10, Oct. 1885, pp. 953-9G9. Also as a separate 



G. Brown Goode. The Beginnings | of | Natural History | in | America. | — | An 

 address delivered at the Sixth Anniversary meeting of the Biological Society j of 

 Washington. | — | By | G. Brovru Goode, | President of the Society. | — | From the 

 proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Volume iii, 1884-1886. | — | 

 Washington : ( Printed for the Society. | lSri6. 

 8vo. pp. 35-105. 



A discussion of the work of the earliest naturalists and explorers, and of the origin of scien 

 tiflc institutions in America. 



G. Brown Goode. The care of pamphlets. 



Science, vi, Oct. 16, 1885, No. 141, p. 337. Abstract in BiM. Phil. Soc, 1885, p. 29. 



G. Brown Goode and Tarleton H. Bran. Description of Leptophidiiim cennnum 

 and L. marmoratum, new fishes from deep water off the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. 

 Froc. V. S. Nat. Mus., vni, Sept. 17, 1885, pp. 422-424. 



G. Brown Goode aud Tarleton H. Bean. Descriptions of new fishes obtained by 

 the U. S. Fish Commission, mainly from deep water off the Atlantic and Gulf 

 coasts. 



Froc. XJ. S. Nat. Mus., vni, Oct. 19 and 20, 1885, p. 589. 



Aphoristia diomedeana, A.pusilla, Hemirhomhus fimhriatus, Citharichthys vcntralis, Etropus 

 rirnosus, Macrurus caribbceus, M. occa, Coryphcenoides sulcatus, Malacocephalus occidcntalis, 

 Bathygadus cavernosus, B. macrops, B. loni/ifdis, nn. S9.; Neobythites, Porogadus, nn. gg. ; Neo- 

 bythites gilli, Porogadxis tniles, un. ss. ; Bathyonus, nom. g. n. ; Bathyonus catena, B. pectoralis, 

 nc. ss. 



Asa Gray. Plants from near Point Barrow. 



Report of the expedition to Point Barroiv, Alaska (1882-'83), 1 1885] pp. 191-192. 

 See under John Murdoch. (Part iv, Natural History.) 



F. H. H. Guillemard. Report on the Collections of Birds made during the voyage of 

 the yacht Marchesa. I. A provisional list of the birds inhabiting the Sulu Archi- 

 pelago. 



FrocZool. Soc. of London, 1885, pp. 247-275. 



A specimen of Carpophaga pickeringi was compared with the type in the National Museum 

 at the author's request, and the result of Mr. llidgway'a comparison is given on page 270. 



V. Havard. Report on the Flora of Western and Southern Texas. 



Froc. V. S. Nat. Miis. vra, Sept. 23, 28, and 30, 1885, pp. 449-533. 



In the first part of this report a general description of the vegetation of western and south- 

 ern Texas is given, the second part being made up of economic notes on the plants known to 

 have useful or baneful properties or to bo of value to agricultui-e or industry. The specimens 

 treated of in this report have been presented to the National Museum. 



O. P. Hay. Notes on a collection from Florida, with descrijitions of new or little- 

 known species. 



Froc. TJ. 8. Nat. Mus., vni, Sept. 30, 1885, p. 552. 

 Etheostoma davisoni, Zygonectes aura guttaus, nn. s. 



H. W. Hexshaw. — The Gulls of the Californian Coast. 

 The Auk, u, July, 1885, pp. 231, 232. 



RoMYN Hitchcock [Editor]. The American Monthly Microscopical Journal. 

 Current numbers, vi. July, 1885, to vn, Jitne, 1886 (inch), Nos. 67-78. 



A iournal devoted to the interests of practical mioroscopists, containing information con 

 cerning methods of work, formula}, notes, etc., with contributed articles and reviews. 

 RoMYN Hitchcock. Provisional Key to the Classification n( AJgw of Fresh Water. 

 The Am. Monthly Mier. Journ., vi, July, 1885, pp. 129-130; Sept., 188.^, pp. 170-174 ; Dec, 1885, 

 pp. 231-233; vn, Feb., 1886, pp. 30-31; Mar., 1886, pp. 50-53 ; May, 1886, pp. 9.5-97. 

 A series of continued articles. 



