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I may, liowoAor, specify the following- i)iiblicatioiis as among tbemost 

 important additions to our list of serials : 



L'At^rostat. 



American Anthropologist. 



American Geologist. 



American Journal of Psychology. 



American Yachtsman. 



Analcs del Mnseo Michoacano. 



Astrononiische Naclirichten. 



Boletin niensual del ObservaforioMeteor- 



ologico del collegio pio de Villa Colon. 

 Boletin niensual del Observatorio Meteor- 



ologico-magnetico, Mexico. 

 Boletin dc Sanidad, Madrid. 

 Centralblatt fiir Bacteriologie und Par- 



asitenkuude. 

 Entomologist. 

 Entomologists' Monthly Magazine. 



Ethuologisclie Mittheiliingen aus Un- 

 garn . 



Fernschau. 



Geografisk Tidskrift. 



Globus. 



Honduras-Progress (the lirst English 

 newspaper published in Honduras). 



Indian Ann.als and Magazine of Natural 

 Sciences. 



"Notes from the Leydeu Museum." 



Notes and Queries (Manchester, N. H.). 



Record of American and Foreign Ship- 

 ping. 



Scottish Geographical Magazine. 



Societas Entomologica. 



Zeitschrift fiir Luftschiti'fahrt, 



The following universities liav^e sent complete sets of all their aca. 

 demie publications for the year, including the inaugural dissertations 

 delivered by thestudents on graduation : Bern, Bonn, Dorpat, Erlangeu, 

 Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Giessen, Gottingen, Greifswald, Halle-au-der- 

 Saale, Heidelberg, Uelsingfors, Jena, Kiel, Konigsberg, Leipzig, Liege, 

 Lund, Marburg, Strassburg, Tubingen, Utrecht, Wiirzburg, and Ziirich. 



Among other important accessions during the year, I may mention 

 the following : '' Les premiers ages du metal dans le Sud-est de I'Es- 

 pagne," from the authors, MM. Henri and Louis Siret, Antwerp, a 

 magnificent illustrated work ; a full set of the publications of the 

 Physicalische Anstalt im-Bernoullianum, Basel ; vol, 4 (the first is- 

 sued) of the reports of the German commission for the observation of 

 the transit of Venus ; a full set of parliamentary publications from 

 the German EeichstagsBibliothok; two volumes of the magnificent 

 "Corpus Inscriptionum Latinorura," published by the Berlin Acad- 

 emy ; a full set of tlie publications of the Birmingham Natural History 

 and Micro.scopical Society, since 1872 ; " Voyages en Moscovie et Tar- 

 taric," by Adam Olearius, and Mandelslo's " Voyages de Perse aux 

 Indes Orientales," both published in 1727, from Hon. William T. Rice, 

 United States consul at Horgen, Switzerland ; the first 2 volumes of 

 Houzeau and Lancaster's great "Bibliographic Gcnerale de I'Astron- 

 omie," from Prof. A. Lancaster, of Brussels; twentyeiglit ichthyo- 

 logical publications from the author, Dr. Francis Day, Cheltenliam, 

 England ; volumes 17 and 18 of the report of the Norwegian North 

 Atlantic Expedition ; a full set of government publications from Sax- 

 ony; the great " ('atalogus Librornni Bibliotheca' ('oUegii S. S. Trini- 

 tatis," in 8 folio volumes, from Trinity Golloge, Dublin; a valuable 

 set of 1(» volumes on forestry, from the author. Dr. John' Croumbie 

 Brown, Haddington, England; IJaeckel's " Kalkschwiimme," in 3 vol- 



