VIII CONTENTS. 



Pag*. 

 Appendix to the Report of the Secretary — Continued. 



Report on National Museum — Continued. 



Mineral collection 266 



Metallurgy and economic geology collection 268 



Library of the National Museum 271 



Appendix A, officers of the National Museum 275 



B, bibliography of National Museum, 1883 276 



C, list of contributors to National Museum, 1883 322 



GENERAL APPENDIX. 



Page. 



I. — Record of Scientific Progress, 1883 363 



Introduction, by Spencer F. Baird 363 



Astronomy, by Edward S. Holden 365 



Geology, by T. Sterry Hunt 443 



Geography, by F. M. Green 465 



Meteorology, by Cleveland Abbe 483 



Physics, by George F. Barker 571 



Chemistry, by H. Carrington Bolton 629 



Mineralogy, by Edward S. Dana 661 



Botany, by W. G. Farlow 681 



Zoology, by Theodore Gill 699 



Anthropology, by Otis T. Mason 753 



II. — Miscellaneous Papers 797 



Papers relating to Anthropology .*.... 797 



Australian Group relations, by A. W. Ho witt 797 



Mounds of Sangamon County, Illinois, by James Wickersham 825 



Mounds in Spoon River Valley, Illinois, by W. H. Adams 835 



Ancient relics at Dayton, Ohio, by Aug. A. Foerste 838 



Mounds in Butler County, Ohio, by J. P. MacLean 844 



Earth-work in Highland County, Ohio, by J. P. MacLean 851 



Mounds in Berrien County, Georgia, by William J. Taylor 853 



Mounds and shell-heaps on west coast of Florida, by S. T. Walker.. 854 



Stone mounds of Hampshire County, W. Virginia, by L. A. Kengla . . 868 



Remains in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, by John A. Ruth 872 



Relics in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. , by Henry Booth 876 



Notes on the Wampanoag Indians, by Henry E. Chase 878 



Antiquities from Omc tepee, Nicaragua, by Charles C. Nutting 908 



On the Phonology of four Siouan Languages, by J. Owen Dorsey ... 919 



Index to the volume 931 



