12 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Article ii, "Archaeological Researches iu Nicaragua." By J. F. Brans- 

 ford, M. D. Published in 1881 (au account of which was given in the 

 Annual Report for that year). Article in, " On the Contents of a Bone 

 Cave in the Island of Auguilla, West Indies." By Edward D. Cope. 

 Published in 1883 (an account of which was given in the Annual Re- 

 port for that year). The whole forms a volume of 509 pages, illustrated 

 with 545 cuts or figures and accompanied by 7 engraved plates. 



Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. — The ten following numbers com- 

 prise pamphlet editions of paj)ers published by the Institution, which 

 being extracted from the Annual Report for 1883, should properly have 

 appeared during the year 1884; but which, through delay at the Gov- 

 ernment Printing Office, were not actually issued till the present year. 



577. "An Account of the Progress in Meteorology in the year 1883." 

 By Prof. Cleveland Abbe. This, with 4 pages of index, comprises 93 

 pages 8vo. 



578. "An Account of the Progress in Physics in the year 1883." By 

 Prof. George F. Barker. 8vo. 52 pp. 



582. "An Account of the Progress in Zoology in the year 1883." By 

 Theodore Gill. 8vo. 53 pp. 



583. "An Account of the Progress in Anthropology in the year 1883." 

 By Prof. Otis T. Mason. 8vo. 43 pp. 



' 585. "Addresses at the Unveiling of the Joseph Henry Statue at Wash- 

 ington, D. C, April 19, 1883." By Chief Justice Waite, Chancellor of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, and Noah Porter, LL. D., president of Yale 

 College. Preceded by a sketch of the proceedings on that occasion; 

 and illustrated with a page wood-cut of the bronze statue as it appears 

 in the Smithsouian grounds. 8vo. 27 pp. 



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

 Institution, to the Board of Regents, for the year 1883." 8vo. 86 pp. 



587. "Report of the Assistant Director of the United States National 

 Museum, together with the Reports of the Curators, for the year 1883." 

 Svo. 200 pp. 



588. " Miscellaneous Papers relating to Anthropology." By A. W. 

 Howitt, James Wickersham, W. H. Adams, Augustus A. Foerste, J. 

 P. MacLean, WiUiam J. Taylor, S. T. Walker, L. A. Kengla, John A. 

 Ruth, Henry Booth, Henry E. Chase, and Charles C. Nutting. Svo. 

 122 pp. 



590. "Australian Group Relations." By A. W. Howitt. 8vo. 28 pp. 

 605. "On the Comparative Phonology of four Siouan languages." By 

 Rev. J. Owen Dorsey. Svo. 11 pp. 



Among the issues properly belonging to the year 1885, the first and 

 most important is No. 538 of the Smithsonian series—" Tables, Meteor- 

 ological and Physical." By Dr. Arnold Guyot, of Princeton CoUege. 

 Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Edited by William Libbey, jr. 



