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tlio year (Miding Juno :?0, 1887. Piirt ii." Being tlie report of the operations and 

 condition of tlio II. S. National Mn.seuni. This i>art contains : 1. The report of the 

 assi.stant secretary, G. Urowii Goode, npou the condition and progren.sof the Museuiu. 

 'J. Reports of the curators of the difterent departments. 3. Papers illustrative of the 

 collections in the U.S. National Museum. 4. bibliography for the year, inchiding(l) 

 the puMications of the National Museum, and ("2) pai)er8 by officers of the National 

 Museum and others ndatiog to Museum nuiterial. 5. List of accessions for the year. 

 This part fmins an octavo volume of xviii + 771 pages, illustrated with 127 ligures, 

 ;U plates, and 1 folding map. 



No. 7'i2. " Report of S. P. Laugley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, for 

 the year ending June ;50, 188'.)." Octavo pamphlet of 84 pages. 



I'UIU.UATION OF TllK HUKKAU OF KTIlNOUXiY. 



No. GW. "Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, 1884-85." By J. W. Powell, Director. This work contains 

 the introductory report of the Director, 58 pages, with accompanying papers as fol- 

 lows: "Ancient Art of the Province of Chiriqui," by William H. Holmes; "A Study 

 of the Textile Art in its relation to the Development of Form and Ornament," by 

 William II. Holmes; "Aids to the Stndy of the Maya Codices," by Cyrus Thomas; 

 " Osage Traditions," by Rev. J. Owen Dorsey ; "The Central Eskimo," by Dr. Franz- 

 Boas. The report forms a royal octavo volume of lviii-t-675 pages, illustrated with 

 546 ligures, 7 plates, and 3 maps. 



