CONTENTS. 



VII 



Page. 



National Museum ^^ 



Bureau of Ethnology "'^ 



United States Geological Survey '"^ 



United States Fish Commission ^^ 



Appendix to the Kepokt of the Secretary 99 



Report OQ exchanges for 1884 99 



Receipts of packages for distribution 101 



Foreign 1*^^ 



. mo 



Domestic ^"'^ 



■ino 



Government ^" 



Transmissions of packages 1"t 



Foreign 1 1"'* 



Transportation companies lOo 



Domestic - ^^^ 



Government '■'■'^ 



List of official publications from Public Printer, 1884 113 



Report on Explorations in Queen Charlotte Islands 137 



Report on Indexing Chemical Literature 147 



Acts and Resolutions of Congress relative to Smithsonian Institution, &c . 149 



GENERAL APPENDIX. 



I.— Record of Scientific Progress, 1884 157 



Introduction, by Spencer F. Baird 157 



Astronomy, by Edward S. Holden 159 



Vulcanology and Seismology, by Charles G. Rockwood 215 



Geography, by F. M. Green 237 



Meteorology, by Cleveland Abbe 2.57 



Physics, by George F. Barker 433 



Chemistry, by H. Carrington Bolton 491 



Mineralogy, by Edward S. Dana 543 



Bibliography of Invertebrate Palaeontology, by J. B. Marcou 563 



Zoology, by Theodore Gill 583 



Anthropology, by Otis T. Mason 677 



II.— Miscellaneous Papers ^^19 



Papers relating to Anthropology ^^19 



Antiquities at Pantaleon, Guatemala, by Charles E. Vreeland, J. F. 



719 

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The Guesde Collection of Antiquities in Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, 



by Otis T.Mason ^^^^ 



Ancient Mounds in Clinton County, Michigan, by M. T. Leach 839 



Ancient Forts in Ogemaw County, Michigan, by M. T. Leach 849 



Sketch of Flint Ridge, Licking County, Ohio, by Charles M. Smith. 851 



Earth- works and Mounds in Miami County, Ohio, by E. T. Wiltheiss. 873 



Index to the volume 



877 



