80 REPORT OF THE fcjECRETARY. 



Appendix V. 

 PUBLICATI0N8 FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1892. 



Sir: I have tlK^ liouor to submit the following report, upon the piiljlicatioiis of the 

 Smithsonian Institution Ibr the year eudiug June 30, 1892. 



SMITHSONIAN C0NTKIBUTION8 TO KNOWLEDGE. 



Among the issues in quarto size a fragmentary ijublication, referred to and partly 

 described in the las,t annual report as nearly ready, has been completed and dis- 

 tributed during the present fiscal year. This fragment, as explained in the preceding 

 report, is not included in the collected volumes of the ''Contributions to Knowledge," 

 though produced in same form and style. It forms in the Smithsonian series: 



No. 800. ''Plates prepared between the years 1849 and 1859, to accompany a report 

 on the Forest Trees of North America, by Asa Gray." This is a quarto l)rochure, 

 comprising all the i)lates (23 in number) i)repared for Dr. Gray's long c<mtemplated 

 work on forest trees. Though nearly forty years old, these plates, carefully en- 

 graved and skillfulljr colored by hand, are here for the first time collected and 

 issued, Avithout any descriptive text, no accounts or descriptions having been found 

 among the lamented Dr. Gray's papers. 



No. 801. "Experiments in Aerodynamics." By S. P. Langley. Quarto volume of 

 IV + 115 j)ages; illustrated with 11 figures in the text, and 10 plates. 



SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS. 



No. 787. "Lists of Institutions and Foreign and Domestic Libraries, to which it is 

 desired to send future publications of the National Museum." (From the Report of 

 the National Museum for 1889.) Octavo i)amphlet of -78 pages. 



No. 788. "Memoir of Heinrich Leborecht Fleischer." ByProf. A. Miiller. (From 

 the Smithsonian Report for 1889.) Octavo pamphlet of 20 pages. 



No. 789. "On Aerial Locomotion." By F. W. Wenham. (From the Smithsonian 

 Report for 1889.) Octavo pamphlet of 20 pages; illustrated with 6 figures. 



No. 790. "Photography in the service of Astronomy." By R. Radau. Translated 

 from the French, by A. N. Skinner. (From the Smithsonian Report for 1889.) Oc- 

 tavo pamphlet of 22 pages. 



No. 791. "A Memoir of Gustav Robert Kirchhoff." By Robert von Helmholtz. 

 Translated from the German, by Joseph de Perott. (From the Smithsonian Report 

 for 1889.) Octavo pamphlet of 14 pages. 



No. 792. "The Museums of the Future." By G. Brown Goode, Assistant Secretary 

 of the Smithsonian Institution. (From the Report of the National Museum for 1889. ) 

 Octavo pamphlet of 19 pages. 



No. 793. "Te Pi^o /e iZenwa, or Easter Island." By William J. Thomson. (From 

 the Report of the National Museum for 1889.) Octavo pamphlet of 106 pages; illus- 

 trated with 20 figures and 49 plates. 



No. 794. "Aboriginal Skin Dressing. A study based on material iu the U. S. 

 National Museum." By Otis T. Mason. (From the Report of the National ]\Iuseum 

 for 1889.) Octavo i>ami)hlet ot 62 i)ages; illustrated with 32 plates. 



No. 795. "The Puma or American Lion (Feliscoitcolor of hinnxns). By Frederick 

 W. True. (From the Report of the National Museum for 1889.) Octavo pamphlet 

 of 18 pages; illustrated with 1 plate. 



