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654. "Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution," 1885, 

 Part II. This second part, being the report of the United States National Museum 

 to July, 1885, has at last been received from the Government Printing Office, more 

 than a year later tlian the first part of the report for the same period, which related 

 to the operations of the Smithsonian Institution proper. Tiiis long-delayed I'art il 

 consists of live sections: The first being the "Report upon the Condition and Progress 

 of the U. S. National Museum during tlie half year ending June ^50, 1885," by G. 

 Brown Goode, assistant director, and occupying tlie first 54 pages of the work. 

 The second, "Reports of the Curators and Acting Curators of the Museum upon the 

 Progress of their Work" during the period, occupying pages 55 to 14(). The third, 

 a " Bibliography of the Museum" during the period, including the i)ub]icatioiis of 

 the Museum and those of its officers and others relative to the museum material, and 

 occupying j)age8 149 to 173. The fourth, a " List of Accessions to the Museum" dur- 

 ing the period, together with descriptive notes and indices, occupying pages 175 to 

 243. The fifth, an appendix, cojisisting of a very full description of the "George 

 Catlin Indian Gallery in tlie Museum, with memoir and statistics," by Thomas Don- 

 aldson, occupying 939 pages, illustrated by 142 plates and maps. Tliis historical 

 sketch (forming the greater portion of the volume) has proved to be in great popular 

 demand, the applications made for it through Members of Congress having been un- 

 usually numerous, so that our stock of 7,000 copies is already neai'ly exhausted. The 

 whole number of pages of this Part ii of the report, including introductory matter 

 and indices, is 1,220. If to this be added the illustrations, the aggregate would be 

 equal to 1,.500 octavo pages. 



657. "Report of Prof. Spencer F. Baird, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 lor the year 1886-'87." This last report of my lamented predecessor forms an 

 octavo pamphlet of 27 pages. The volume to contain the above report, with its ac- 

 companying papers and general appendix, has not yet been set up at the Govern- 

 ment Printing Office. 



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655. " Proctjedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. ix, 1886." As 

 already stated, this series, though primarily published at the exjiense of the Govern- 

 ment by the authority of the Interior Department, has heretofore been re-issued by 

 the Smithsonian Institution. Tlie present volume, completed and collected during 

 the past year, consists of descriptive papers by James E. Benedict, T. W. Blackiston, 

 George H. Boehnier, Charles H. Bollman, E. D. Cope, W. H. Dall, George E. Doering, 

 Charles L. Edwards, Carl II. Piigeumann, Barton VV. Evermann, Fernando Ferari- 

 Perez, Morton W. Fordyce, Klizabcth G. Hughes, David S. .Jordan, George N. Law- 

 rence, John Belknap Mareou, William G. Masyk, George P. Merrill, Richard Rathbun, 

 Robert Ridgway, John A. Rider, John B. Smith, Rosa Smith, Leonard Steineger, 

 Frederick W. True, and .John Grant Wells. The colh^ction forms an octavo volume 

 of 720 pages, including introduction and index, and is illustrated by 25 plates, of 

 which one is a chromo-lithograph. 



.565. "Bulletin of the United States National Museum, No. 32." This work is a 

 Catalogue of Batrachians and Reptiles of Central America, and Mexico, by E. D. Cope. 

 The systematic catalogue is very largely based on the vspecimens contained in the 

 National Museum. To each species is added a list of the localities at which it has 

 been discovered, together with the name of the discoverer, or, in the absence of that, 

 with the name of thii author who is responsible, for the correctness of the locality. 

 The total number of genera includt'd in the catalogue is 197, and of species 705, of 

 which 135 are Batrachians and 570 Reptilians. The Bulletin forms a pamphlet of 98 

 octavo pages. 



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For many years the greater portion of the stereotype plates of Smithsonian pub- 

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