CONTENTS. VII 



Appendix to the Report of the Secretary 47 



Report on exchanges to June 30, 1885 47 



Correspondence relative to foreign exchanges 52 



Receipts of packages for distribution 64 



Foreign 04 



Domestic 65 



Government 65 



Transmissions of packages 66 



Foreign - 66 



Domestic 67 



Government •- 68 



List of foreign correspondents 69 



List of institutions in the U. S. receiving Smithsonian publications. .. 259 



Circular relative to Mathematical Prize 331 



Acts and Resolutions of Congress relative to Smithsonian Institution, &c. 335 



GENERAL APPENDIX. 



I. — Record of Scientific Progress, 1884 341 



Introduction, by Spencer F. Eaird 341 



Astronomy, by William C. Wjnlock 343 



List of Astronomical Observatories, by George H. Boehmer 457 



Vulcanology and Seismology, by Charles G. Rockwood 471 



Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes in Iceland within historic times. .. 495 



Geography, by J. King Goodrich 543 



Physics, by George F. Barker 577 



Chemistry, by H. Carrington Bolton (i37 



Mineralogy, by Edward S. Dana 687 



Bibliography of Invertebrate Palseontology, by J. B. Marcou 713 



Zoology, by Theodore Gill - 761 



Anthropology, by Otis T. Mason 815 



n. — Miscellaneous Papers 871 



Papers relating to Anthroi)ology 871 



Observations on Stone-chij)ping, by George E. Sellers 871 



Copper implements from Baytield, Wis., by Charles Whittlesey 892 



Ancient Remains in Ohio, by J. P. MacLean 893 



A primitive store-house of the Creek Indians, by Charlt^s C. Jones, Jr. 900 



Shell heaps and mounds in Florida, by James Shepard 902 



Ancient earthworks in China, by Mark Williams 907 



Plan for American Ethnological Investigation, by the late Henry R. 



Schoolcraft 907 



Index to the Literature of Uranium, by H. Carrington Bolton 915 



Price-list of the Publications of the Smithsonian Institution 947 



Index to the volume , 973 



