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I may, liowtnci', specify tlio followiiio; publicatious as ainoii^- tlieniost 

 miporlaiil a«l<liti()iis to our list of serials : 



L'Arrostai. 



American Aiitluopologiat. 



American Geologist. 



American Journal of Psychology. 



American Yachtsman. 



Anales del Mnseo Michoacano. 



Asvironomischi! Nacli rich ten. 



]5oletin niensnal del Observatorio Meteor- 



ologico del collegio piode Villa Colon. 

 Boletin niensnal del Observatorio Meteor- 



ologico-magtietico, Mexico. 

 Hoic^tin do Sanidad, Madrid. 

 Centralblatt fiir Bacteriologie and Par- 



asitenknude. 

 Entomologist. 

 Entomologists' Monthly Magazine. 



Ethnologische Mittheilnngeu ans Iln- 

 garn. 



Fernschau. 



Geogratisk Tidskrift. 



Globus. 



Honduras-Progress (the tirst English 

 newspaper published in Honduras). 



Indian Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 Sciences. 



"Notes from the Leyden Museum." 



Notes and Queries(Manchester, N. H.). 



liecord of AnuMican and Foreign Ship- 

 ping. 



Scottish Geographical Magazine. 



Societas Entomologica. 



Zeitschrift fiir Luftschilffahrt. 



The following' universities Lave sent complete sets of all their aca. 

 deiiiic publications for the year, including the inaugural dissertations 

 delivered by thestudents on graduation : Bern, Bonn, Dorpat, Erlangen, 

 Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Giessen, Gottingeu, Greifswald, Halle-an-der- 

 Saale, Heidelberg, Helsingfors, Jena, Kiel, Konigsberg, Leipzig, Liege, 

 Lund, Marburg-, Strassburg, Tiibingeu, Utrecht, Wiirz burg, and Ziirich. 



Among other important accessions during the year, I may mention 

 the following : '' Les premiers ages du metal dans le Sud-est de I'Es- 

 I)agne," from the authors, MM, Henri and Louis Siret, Antwerp, a 

 magnificent illustrated work ; a full set of the publications of the 

 IMiysicalische Anstalt im-Bernoullianum, Basel ; vol. 4 (the first is- 

 sued) of the reports of the German commission for the observation of 

 the transit of Venus; a full set of parliamentary publications from 

 the German KeichstagsBibliothek; two volumes of the magnificent 

 "Corpus Inscriptionum Latinorum," published by the Berlin Acad- 

 emy ; a full set of the i)ublications of the Birmingham Natural History 

 and Microscoi)ical Society, since 1872; "Voyages en Moscovie et Tar- 

 taric," by Adam Olearius, and Mandelslo's " Voyages de Perse aux 

 Indes Orientales," both published in 1727, from Hon. William T. Rice, 

 United States consul at Horgen, Switzerland ; the tirst 2 volumes of 

 Ilouzeau and Lancaster's great "Bibliographic Generale de I'Astron- 

 omie," from Prof. A. Lancaster, of Brussels; twenty-eight ichthyo- 

 logical publications from the author. Dr. Francis Day, Cheltenham, 

 England; volumes 17 and IS of the report of the Norwegian North 

 Atlantic Expedition ; a full set of government public^ations from Sax- 

 ony; the great " ('atalogus Librorum Bibliotheca^ Collegii S. S. Trini- 

 tatis," in 8 folio volumes, from Trinity College, Dublin; a valuable 

 set of 1<» volumes on forestry, from the author. Dr. .Toliu Crounibie 

 Brown, Haddington, England; Uaeckel's " Kalkschwiimme," in 3 vol- 



