84 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



The following uuiversities have seat complete sets of all their academic publications 

 for the year, including the inaugural dissertations delivered by the students ou gradu- 

 atiou : Bern, Bonn, Dorpat, Erlangen, Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Giessen, Gottingen, 

 Halle-an-der-Saale, Heidelberg, Helsinglbrs, Jena, Kiel, Konigsberg, Leipzig, Lou- 

 vain, Lund, Tubingen, Utrecht, and Wiirzburg. 

 Among other important accessions during the year may be mentioned the following : 

 From the office of the secretary of state for India, London, a large series of Indian 

 Government publications, including the hnal volumes (Vols. 12, 13, and 14) of the 

 great Gazetteer of India, and Part I of the Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in the 

 library of the India Office ; full sets of official publications from the Italian Govern- 

 ment, the Canadian Government, and the colonial government of New Zealand; from 

 the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle at Lyons, the two magnificent works, Arch6ologie 

 de la Meuse, by F. Lidnard, in six large volumes, and Recherches Anthropologi(iues 

 dans le Caucase, by E. Chantre, in five large volumes; Moeurs et Monuments Pr6his- 

 toriques, from the author, the Marquis de Nadaillac ; a further set of scientific papers 

 from Prince Albert of Monaco; Catalogue des Mounaies Musulmanes de la Biblio- 

 th^que Nationale, from the National Library in Paris; Vol. 3 of the Reports of the 

 German Commission for the Observation of the Transit of Venus; Vols. 26, 27, 28, 29, 

 30, and 31 of the ChaUciifjer Report (Zoology), from the British Government; from 

 the Egypt Exploration Fund, the Memoirs ou Tanis, Part ii. The Store-City of 

 Pithom, Naukratis, Part I, and The Shrine of Saft-el-Henneh, as well as a complete 

 set, in duplicate, of all the memoirs published by this association, presented to the 

 Institution as a return for its services in distributing the publications of the asso- 

 ciation in America; the first volume of the Fossils of the British Islands, pre- 

 sented by the delegates of the Clarendon Press, Oxford; a large volume of Memoirs 

 on Whales and Seals, from the author, Sir William Turner, Edinburgh; a set of 

 nineteen large volumes and pamphlets, catalogues of manuscripts, and special col- 

 lections of books, from the Royal Library at Berlin ; the third section of Vol, 2 of 

 the great Corpus Inscriptionum Atticarum, from the same library; a series of fourteen 

 catalogues of the various collections in the Royal Museum at Berlin ; a complete file 

 of the Zeitschrift fiir Ethnologic, from 1S84 to date, from the Berliner Gesellschaft 

 f iir Anthropologie, Ethnologic, und Urgeschichte ; full sets of publications, including 

 charts from the hydrographic offices of Great Britain, Denmark, Italy, and Russia; 

 Vol. 1 of Expeditions Scieutifiques du TravaiUeur et du Talisman, containing the 

 fishes, by L. Vaillant, from the Bureau Fran^aise des ^changes Internationaux, which 

 also sent a large series of other important publications of the French Government; a 

 large series of government reports from the Hawaiian Government; Mean Scottish 

 Meteorology, from the author, Prof. C. Piazzi Smyth; Part 5 of Lilljeborg's Sveriges 

 och Norges Fiskar ; and a gorgeously illustrated work from his highness the Maharaja 

 of Ulwar, entitled Ulwar aud its Art Treasures, by Thomas Holbein Heudley. 



Very respectfully submitted. 



John Murdoch, 



Librarian. 



Prof. S. P. Langlev, 



Secretanj of the Smithsonian Insiitution. 



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