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No. 717. "The Human Beast of Burdeu." With 54 figures. By Otis T.Mason. 

 (From the Smithsonian Report for 1837, Part ii.) Octavo pamphlet of 59 pages. 



No. 718. "Ethno-Conchology : a Study of Primitive Money." With 22 figures and 

 nine plates. By Robert E. C. Stearns. (From the Smithsonian Report for 1887. Part 

 II. ) Octavo pamphlet of 38 pages. 



No. 719. "The Extermination of the American Bison." With 21 plates and 1 fold- 

 ing map. By William T. Hornaday. (From the Smithsonian Report for 1887, Part ii.) 

 Octavo pamphlet of 184 pages. 



No. 720. The Preservation of Museum Specimens from Insects and the effects of 

 Damimess." With 5 figures. (From the Smithsonian Report for 1887, Part ii.) Oc- 

 tavo pamphlet of 10 pages. 



No. 721. " List of Accessions to the U. S. National Museum, during the yeareudiug 

 June 30, 1887, with descriptive notes." (From the Smithsonian Report for 1887, Part 

 II.) Octavo pamphlet of 129 pages. 



No. 724. "The George Catlin Indian Gallery in the U. S. National Museum; with 

 memoir and statistics." Illustrated with 138 plates and 6 folding maps. By Thomas 

 Donaldson. From the Smithsonian Report for 1885, Part ii.) Octavo volume of 

 vii+939 pages. 



No. 732. " Throwing-sticks in the National Museum." With 17 plates. By Otis 

 T. Mason. (From the Smithsonian Report for 1884, Part ii.) Octavo pamphlet of 

 11 pages. 



No. 733. "Basket-work of the North American Aborigines." With 64 plates. By 

 Otis T. Mason. (From the Smithsonian Report for 1884, Part ii.) Octavo pamphlet 

 of 16 ])ages. 



No. 734. "A Study of the Eskimo Bows in the U. S. National Museum." With 12 

 plates. By John Murdoch. (From the Smithsonian Report for 1884, Part ii.) Oc- 

 tavo pami)hlet of 10 pages. 



No. 741. " Index to the Literature of Thermodynamics." Comprising Part i, a 

 subject index under 54 topics ; and Part ii, an author index, with the titles of pajiers 

 in full. By Alfred Tuckerman. Octavo volume of 244 pages. 



No. 745. "Check-list of Publications of the Smithsonian Institution, to July, 

 1890," Octavo pamphlet of 35 pages. 



SMITHSONIAN ANNUAL REPORTS. 



No. GS9. "Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 

 ending June 30, 1887. Part i." This part comprises the report of the Institution 

 proper, and contains the Journal of Proceedings of the Board of Regents at the an- 

 nual meeting held January 12, 1887; the Report of the Executive Committee of the 

 Board, and the Report of Professor Baird, the Secretary of the Institution ; followed 

 by the "General Appendix," in which are given the following papers: Advance of 

 Science in the Last Half Century, by T. H. Huxley ; Progress in Astronomy in 1886, 

 by William C. Winlock; in North American Geology, by Nelson H. Darton ; in North 

 American Paleontology, by J. B. Marcon ; in Vulcanology and Seismology, by C. G. 

 Rockwood ; in Geography and Exploration, by William Libbey ; in Physics, by George 

 F. Barker; in Chemistry, by H. Carrington Bolton; in Mineralogy, by Edward S. 

 Dana ; in Zoology, by Theodore Gill ; and in Anthropology, by Otis T. Mason. Also, 

 papers on an Indian Mummy, by James Lisle ; Mound in Jefferson County, Tennessee, 

 by J. C. McCormick; Ancient Mounds in Iowa, etc., by Clement L. Webster; Indians 

 of Washington Territory, by Myron Eells ; Anchor Stones, by B. F. Snyder; Antiqui- 

 ties in Mexico, by S. B. Evans; concluding with a Biographical Memoir of Arnold 

 Guyot, by James D. Dana. The Report forms an octavo volume of xx-f 735 pages, 

 illustrated with 10 figures and 3 plates. 



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