CATALOGUE OF PUBLICATIONS, 601 



846. Circular for the Guidance of Persons dcsirin-x to make Exclianges 

 of Birds or J>ird Eggs with the National ^Museum. {CireuJar 

 National Mtiscion, Ko. 34.) 



647. Kesearcbes upon the Venom of Poisonous Serpents. J>yS. Weir, 

 Mitchell, M. U., and Edwakd T. Ukiciiert, IM. 1). 1880. 

 4to,, pp. 190, 5 cuts, 5 plates with 17 figures. 



848. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Sinitlisoniaii In- 

 stitution for the year 1881. Part ii. Kei)ort of the U. IS. Na- 

 tional Museum under the direction of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion for the year 1884. Forty-eighth Congress, second session, 

 Senate Mis. Doc. No. 33. 1885. 8vo., pp. 408. 



, CONTENTS. 



GOODE, G. B. Report of the Assistant Director. 

 Rejiort of the Curators aud Actiuj^ Curators. 



Beyer, Dr. H. G., IT. S. Navy. Seel ion of Materia Medica. 

 Hitchcock, Romyn. Section of Textile Industries. 

 Collins, J. W. Section of Naval Architecture. 

 Hitchcock, Romyn. Section of Foods. 

 Mason, Dr. O. T. Departiueut of Ethnology. 

 Holmes, William H. Section of American Aboriginal Pottery. 

 Eau, Dr. Charles. Department of Antiquities. 

 True, Frederick W. Department of Mammals. 

 Eidgway, Robert. Department of Birds. 

 Yarrow, Dr. II. C. Department of Reptiles and Batrachiaiis. 

 Bean, Dr. Tarleton H. De})artmentof Fishes (inelading also rejjort 

 upon Ichthyological Explorations made in behalf of the Museum 

 by Dr. D. S. Jordan). 

 Dall, William H. Department of Mollusks. 

 EiLEY, Dr. C. V. Department of Insects. 

 Eathbun, Richard. Department of Marine Invertebrates. 

 Walcott, C. D. Department of Invertebrate Fossils (Paleozoic). 

 White, Dr. C. A. Department of Invertebrate Fossils (Meso-Cenozoic). 

 Ward, Lester F. Department of Fossil Plants. 

 Clarke, Prof. F. W. Department of Mineralogy. 



Merrill, George P. Department of Lithology and Physical Geology. 

 Dewey, Fred. P. Department of Metallurgy and Economic Geology. 

 Part hi.— Papers based on Collections ix the National jNIcseum. 

 Mason, Otis T. l— Throwing sticts in the National Museum. 

 Mason, OtisT. ii.— Basket-work of the North American Aborigines. 

 Murdoch, John, hi.— A study of the Eskimo Bows in the U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum. 

 True, Frederick W. iv.— On a Spotted Dolphin, apparently iden- 

 tical with the rrodelphinus doris of Gray. 

 True, Frederick W. v.— The Florida Muskrat, Neofiher Alleni, True. 

 True, Frederick W., and Lucas, F. A. vi.— On the West Indian Seal, 

 Monachus tropicalus, Gray. 

 Part iv.— Bibliography ok the U. S. National Musecm eor 1834. 

 I. Publications of the Museum. 

 II. Papers by officers of the MuseunL 



III. Papers by investigator snot officers of the Museum, based ou Mu- 

 seum material. 

 Part v. 



List of accessions to the Museum in 1834. 



