REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM. 289 



Goode, G. Brown, and Joseph W. Collins. — The mackerel fishery 



of the United States. 



(Materials for a history of the mackerel fishery (full title below). 168:!. pp. 

 (48)-(U8).) 



Goode, G. Brown, Joseph W. Collins, R. E. Earll, and A. How- 

 ard Clark. — Materials for a history of the Mackerel Fishery. By 

 George Brown Goode, Joseph W. Collins, B. E, Earll, and A. How- 

 ard Clark. Washington : Government Printing Office. 18S3. 7017. 

 8vo, pp. [1]-[441.J 



Extracted from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Fish and Fish- 

 eries for 1881. 



Goode, G. Brown, and Newton P. Scudder. — Bibliography of the 

 writings of the alumni and faculty of Wesleyau University. 



(Alumni Record of Wesleyau University. Middletown, 1883. pp. 529- 

 668.) 



Goodrich, J. King. — The Pacific coast fisheries viewed from a non- 

 professional standpoint. 



(Americau Field, 1883, vol. xix, No. 11, pp. 185-186.) 



Fish and Fishing. The Beluga or White Whale. 



(American Field, 1883, vol. xix, No. 9, pp. 152-154.) 



Describes the methods employed in the capture of the white whale by ua- 

 tivesin the Arctic regions, together with a complete and illustrated descrip- 

 tion of the implements of a beluga hunter's outfit. 



Hitchcock, Romyn. — Water-bottles and thermometers for deep-sea 

 research at the International Fisheries Exhibition [London). 



(Science, August 10, 1883 vol. n, p. 155.) 



In this article is described the apparatus exhibited by the United States, 

 Swedish apparatnsdevised by Professor F.L. Ekman, Arfwidson's water-bottle, 

 Captain Ruug's apparatus for temperature, the Negretti and Zambia ther- 

 mometers, and Commander Magnaghi's device for inverting the same. 



Hornaday, William T. — Mental capacity of the elephant. 



(Popular Science Monthly, August, 1883, vol. xxm, No. 136, pp. 497-509. ) 

 An array of facte drawn from the observations of the author on the Indian 

 elephant to show the elephant's powers of observation, memory, and reason, 

 and an argument to show the possibilities of education in elephants. 



Every boy his own taxidermist. 



(Mastery, vol. I, eight chapters, p. 131, July 5, 1883 ; p. 147, July 12 ; p. 167, 

 July 19 ; p. 185, July 26 ; p. 337, October 4 ; p. 353, October 11 ; p. 369, October 

 18 ; p. 385, October 25. Illustrated by sixteen figures. ) 



One series of four chapters, describing the methods employed in skinning, 

 preserving, mounting, and finishing a small mammal, and another treating 

 of the same processes with small birds. 



■--= A review of Maynard's Manual of Taxidermy. 



(Science, September 7, 1883, vol. n, No. 31, p. 312. ) 



Lucas, Frederic A. — Nature's Surgery. 



(Ward's Natural Science Bulletin, January, 1883, p. 9.) 

 Noting instances in which the bones oi wild animals had been broken and 

 healed. 

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