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SMITHSONIAN ANNUAL REPORT. 



654. "Annual Report of the Bo.-ird of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution," 1885, 

 Part II. This second part, being the report of the United States National Museum 

 to July, 1885, has at last been received from the Government Printing Office, more 

 than a year later than the first part of the report for the same period, which related 

 to the operations of the Smithsonian Institution proper. This long-delayed Part ii 

 consists of five sections : The first being the "Report upon the Condition and Progress 

 of the U. S. National Museum during the half year ending June 30, 1885," by G. 

 Brown Goode, assistant director, and occupying the first 54 pages of the work. 

 The second, "Reports of the Curators aud Acting Curators of the Museum upon the 

 Progress of their Work" during the period, occupying pages .55 to 146. The third, 

 a " Bibliography of the Museum" during the period, iucluding the publications of 

 the Museum and those of its officers aud others relative to the museum material, aud 

 occupying pages 149 to 173. The fourth, a "List of Accessions to the Museum" dur- 

 ing the period, together with descriptive notes and indices, occupying pages 175 to 

 243. The fifth, an appendix, consisting of a very full description of the "George 

 Catlin Indian Gallery in the Museum, with memoir and statistics," by Thomas Don- 

 aldson, occupying 939 pages, illustrated by 142 plates and maps. This historical 

 sketch (forming the greater portion of the volume) has proved to be in great popular 

 denuind, the applications made for it through Members of Congress having been un- 

 usually numerous, so that our stock of 7,000 copies is already nearly exhausted. The 

 whole number of pages of this Part ii of the report, includiug introductory matter 

 aud indices, is 1,220. If to this be added the illustrations, the aggregate would be 

 eq-.ial to 1,.500 octavo pages. 



657. "Report of Prof. Spencer F. Baird, Secretary of tl)e Smithsonian Institution, 

 for the year 1886-87." This last report of my lamented predecessor forms an 

 octavo pamphlet of 27 pages. The volume to contain the above report, with its ac- 

 companying papers and general appendix, has not yet been set up at the Govern- 

 ment Printing Office. 



ISSUES OP THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



655. "Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. ix, 1886." As 

 already stated, this series, though priuuirily published at the expense of the Govern- 

 ment by the authority of the Interior Departmeut, has heretofore beeu re-issued by 

 the Smithsonian Institutiou. The preseut volume, completed and collected during 

 the past year, consists of descriptive papers by James E. Benedict, T. W. Blackiston, 

 George H. Boehmer, Charles H. Bollman, E. D. Cope, W. H. Dall, George E. Doering, 

 Charles L. Edwards, Carl H. Eigenmann, Barton W. Evennann, Fernando Ferari- 

 Perez, Morton W. Fordyce, Elizabeth G. Hughes, David S. Jordan, George N. Law- 

 rence, John Belknap Marcou, William G. Masyk, George P. Merrill, Richard Rathbun, 

 Robert Ridgway, John A. Rider, John B. Smith, Rosa Smith, Leonard Steineger, 

 Frederick W. True, and John Grant Wells. The collection forms an octavo volume 

 of 720 pages, includiug introduction aud index, and is illustrated by 25 plates, of 

 which one is a chroum-lithograph. 



.565. "Bulletin of tlio United States National Museum, No. 32." This work is a 

 Catalogue of Batrachians aud Reptiles of Central America ami Mexico, l)y E. D. Cope. 

 The systematic catalogue is very largely based on the specimens contained in the 

 National Museum. To each species is added a list of the localities at which it has 

 been discovered, together with the name of the discoverer, or, in the absence of that, 

 wifh the name of the author who ia responsible for the correctness of the locality. 

 The total number of genera iucliulod in the catalogue is 197, aud of species 705, of 

 which 135 are Batrachians and 570 Reptiliaus. The Bulletin forms a pamphlet of 98 

 octavo pages. 



STEREOTYPE PLATES ON HAND. 



For many years the greater piu'tiou of the stereotype plates of Smithsonian pub- 

 lications has been stored iu Philadelphia, in the fire-proof vaults of the Aea<lemy of 



