VI CONTENTS. 



Report of the Secretauy. — The Smithsonian Institution— Continued. 



Publications 10 



Distribution of publications 10 



Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 11 



Volumes XXIV and XXV issued 11 



Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 12 



Guyot's Meteorological and Physical Tables 12 



Scientific writings of Joseph Henry 14 



Bulletins of the National Museum 14 



Proceedings of the National Museum If) 



• Volume VII issued 16 



Smithsonian Annual Eeport for 1883 17 



Publications of the Bureau of Ethnology 17 



International exchanges 18 



Transportation companies 19 



Government exchanges 20 



Library 21 



Additions for the first six months of the year 21 



Co-operative relations of the Smithsonian Institution 22 



Bureau of Education 22 



The London Diplomatic Eeview 22 



Newfoundland postage on exchanges 23 



Zoological specimens for Museum from menageries 24 



Necrology 24 



Dr. EdwardForeman 24 



Miscellaneous 24 



The TyndaU Trust Fund 24 



United States National Museum 26 



Arrangement of material 26 



Museum publications 27 



Meetings and lectures in Museum Hall 28 



Organization of Museum Departments 29 



Department of Arts and Industries , 29 



Department of Ethnology 32 



Department of Antiquities 32 



Department of Mammals 33 



Department of Birds , 34 



Department of Fishes 35 



Department of Comparative Anatomy 36 



Department of Mollusks 36 



Department of Insects 37 



Department of Marine Invertebrates 39 



Departments of Invertebrate Fossils 40 



Department of Fossil and Recent Plants 40 



Departments of Minerals, and of Lithology, &c 42 



Department of Metallurgy aud Economic Geology 43 



BxjREAU OF Ethnology 45 



United States Geological Survey 45 



United States Fish Commission 45 



