REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 17 



Cotton Centennial Exposition of 1884-'85, at New Orleans." By Fred- 

 erick P. Dewey. Svo. 8 pp. 



622. Circular 'No. 32. " Classification of the Materia Medica collec- 

 tion of the United States National Museum, and catalogue of speci- 

 mens." By James M. Flint. " Eevised and extended " by Henry Gr. 

 Beyer. 8vo. 39 pp. 



626. Circular No. 33. " Notes on the preparation of rough skeletons." 

 By Frederick A. Lucas. 8vo. 8 pp., with 12 figures. 



The Smithsonian Annual Eepoi-t. — The third class of publications con- 

 sists of Annual Keports of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, presented to Congress, and printed by authority of that body. 

 The Eeport of 1883 was not issued till 1885. It contains the report of 

 the Secretary of the Institution for the year, supplemented by the cor- 

 respondence relative to the transfer of astronomical announcements by 

 telegraph to Harvard College Observatory; the report on the operations 

 of the Smithsonian system of international and domestic exchanges ; 

 and the report of the Assistant Director of the National Museum on 

 the condition of that department, together with a general Appendix, 

 embracing a record of scientific progress for the year, — in astronomy, by 

 Edward S. Holden ; geology, by T. Sterry Hunt ; geography, by F. M. 

 Green ; meteorology, by Cleveland Abbe ; physics, by George F. Barker ; 

 chemistry, by H. Carrington Bolton; mineralogy, by Edward S. Dana; 

 botany, by W. G. Farlow; zoology, by Theodore Gill; and anthro- 

 pology, by Otis T. Mason ; together with miscellaneous papers relative 

 to anthropology, by A. W. Howitt, James Wickersham, W. H. Adams, 

 Augustus A. Foerste, J. P. MacLean, William J. Taylor, S. T. Walker, 

 L. A. Kengla, John A. Ruth, Henry Booth, Henry E. Chase, Charles C. 

 Nutting, and J. Owen Dorsey. The Report forms an octavo volume of 

 997 pages (including introductory matter and index), illustrated with 

 33 figures and sketch-maps and 1 plate. 



The "Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, for the year 1884," forming an 8vo. volume of 943 pages (in- 

 cluding introductory matter and index), has been most unfortunately 

 delayed, and is not yet published. 



Publications of the Bureau of Ethnology. — To the three preceding classes 

 of established publications (one of quarto size, and two of ordinary oc- 

 tavo size), a fourth class, of imperial octavo size, embracing the publi- 

 cations of the Bureau of Ethnology, under the direction of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, may now properly be added. Of this series two vol- 

 umes have already appeared. 



The "First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, to the Smith- 

 sonian Institution," by J. W. Powell, Director, though published two 

 years ago, was not noticed in the last report of the Secretary. This 

 work contains papers by J. W. Powell (in addition to his report proper), 

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