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Report of the National Museum for 1889, 902 pp., 108 pi., 137 figures, 7 maps. Section I. Re- 

 port of the Director. Sec. II. Reports of the Curators (same as other books, with addition of 

 Department of Botany, Dr. Geo. Vasey, Curator, and Department of Living Animals, Mr. W'm. T. 

 Hornaday, Curator). Sec. III. Papers describing and illustrating the collections in the U. S. 

 National Museum: I. The Museums of the Future, by G. Brown Goode. Pp.427-44o. II. Te Pito 

 te Henua, or Easter Island, its Ethnology and Antiquities, by Wm. J. Thomson, Paymaster U. S. 

 N. Pp. 447-.552; pi. 12-60; figs. 1-20. III. Aboriginal Skin Dressing; a Study Based on the Ma- 

 terial in the National Museum, by Otis T. Mason. Pp. 553-590; pi. 61-93. IV. The Puma, or 

 American Lion ( Felis concolor L. ), by F. W. True. Pp. 591-608; pi. 94. V. Animals Recently Ex- 

 tinct, or Threatened with Extermination, by F. A. Lucas. Pp. 609-650; pi. 95-105: figs. 21, 22; maps 

 1-7. VI. The Development of the American Rail and Track, by J. Elfreth Watkins. Pp. 651- 7U8; 

 figs. 23-137. VII. Explorations in Newfoundland and Labrador in 1887, made in Connection 

 with the U. S. Fish Commission Schooner "Grampus," by Frederick A. Lucas. P}). 709-728; pi. 

 106. VIII. On a Bronze BwUlha in the U. S. National Museum, by Charles De Kay. Pp. 729-735; 

 pi. 107. Sec. IV. Bibliography of the U. S. National Museum. Sec. V. List of Accessions for 

 the year ending June 30, 1889. Appended to this Rei^ort is Appendix E, a preliminary hand- 

 book of the Department of Geology in the U. S. National Museum, by Geo. P. Merrill, Curator; 

 and included in the Report of the Assistant Secretary is Appendix D, a list of institutions and for- 

 eign and domestic libraries to which it is desired to send future publications of the National Mu- 

 seum. ( This list contains the Kansas Academy of Science and 15 other libraries in Kansas. ) 88 pp. 



Report of the. U. S. National Museum, for the year ending June 30, 1890. 832 pp., 163 pi., 99 

 figs. Section I. Report of the Assistant Secretary in charge of the Museum, pp. 1-116. Sec. II. 

 Reports of the Curators, pp. 119-249. Sec. III. 1. The Humming Birds, by Robert Ridj^way. Pp 

 253-383; pi. 1 to 46; figs. 1-47. II. White-line engi'aving for relief printing in the 15th and 16th 

 centuries. Dotted prints, "gravures en manifere crlbl^e"' ^Fr.), •'Schrotblatter" iGer.), byS. 

 R. Koehler, Curator of Graphic Arts. Pp. 385-394; pi. 47-50; figs. 48-50. III. The Methods of 

 Fire-making, by Walter Hough. Pp. 395-409; pi. 51; figs. 51-63. IV. The Ulu, or Woman's Knife 

 of the Eskimo, by Otis T. Mason. Pp. 411-416; pi. 52-72, of 75 figs. V and VI. The Ancient Pit- 

 dwellers of Yezo, and the Ainos of Yezo, Japan, by Romyn Hitchcock. Pp. 417-502: pi. 73-117; 

 figs. 64-88. VII. Handbook of the Department of Geology in the II. S. National Museum. Part 

 I. Geognosy; The Materials of the Earth's Crust, by Geo. P. Merrill. Pp. 503-591; pi. 108-129; 

 figs. 89-98. VIII. The Catlin Collection of Indian Paintings, by Dr. Washington Matthews, U. S. A. 

 Pp. 593-610; pi. 130-140. IX. The Log of the Savannah (the first steamship— American —to cross 

 the Atlantic), by J. Elfreth Watkins. Pp. 611-639; pi. 101-156. X. Anthropology at the Paris Ex- 

 position in 1889, by Thomas Wilson. Pp. 641-680; pi. 157-163; fig. 99. Sec. IV. Bibliography. Sec. 

 V. List of Accessions, pp. 719-788. 



Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum, Vol. XIV, 1891, 750 pp., 34 pi. A Catalogue of the 

 Fresh-water Fishes of South America, by Carl H. Eigenmann and Rosa S. Eigenmann. Pp. 1-81. 

 A Collection of Fishes from Guaymas, by Barton W. Evermann and Oliver P. Jenkins. Pp. 121- 

 165; pi. 1, 2. Revision of Mamestra, by John B. Smith, Professor of Entomology, Rutgers 

 College. Pp. 197-276; pi. 8-11. Annelida Polychreta of Beaufort, N. C, by E. A. Andrews, Ph. D. 

 Pp. 277-302; pi. 12-18. The Genus Panopeus, by James E. Benedict aod Mary J. Rathbun. Pp. 

 3.5.5-385; pi. 19-24. Birds of Arctic America, by R. MacFarlane, F. R. G. S. Pp. 413-446. New 

 Fishes from the Pacific Coast, by Charles H. Gilbert. Pp. 539-566. Biology of Chaleidida^ by 

 L. O. Howard. Pp. 567-588. A Review of the Snakes of North America, by E. D. Cope. Pp. 589- 

 694. The Tetraodontoidea, by Theodore Gill. Pp. 705-720; pi. 34. And other shorter articles. 

 United States Department of Agriculture — Division of Botan:;: Bulletins — 



No. 3. Grasses of the South: A report on certain grasses and forage plants for cultivation in 

 the South and Southwest, by Dr. George Vasey, Botanist. 1887. 64 pp., 16 pi. 



No. 6. Grasses of the Arid Districts: Report of an investigation of the grasses of the arid dis- 

 tricts of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, in 1887, by Geo. Vasey, Botanist. 1888. 

 60 pp., 30 pi. 



No. 8. Grass Experiment Stations, Notes on Grasses, Botanical Notes, and the Genus Panicum 

 in the United States, by Dr. George Vase>y, Botanist. 1889. 39 pages, 64 species of Panicum, with 

 descriptions. 



Special Bulletin. The Agricultural Grasses and Forage Plants of the United States, and such 

 foreign kinds as have been Introduced, by Dr. Geo. Vasey, Botanist. 114 pp., 114 pll., with an ap- 

 pendix of 30 pages on the Chemical Composition of American Grasses, by Clifford Richardson, 

 formerly assistant chemist. 1889. 



Special BiiUetln. Grass and Forage Experiment Station at Garden City, Kans.. by Dr. J. \. Se- 

 wall, Superintendent. Cooperative Branch Stations In the South, by S. M. Tracy. 1892. 12 pp. 



No. 12. Grasses of the Southwest: Plates and descriptions of the grasses of the desert region nf 

 M'estern Texas, Now Mexico, Arizona, and Southern California, by Dr. George Vasey, Botanist 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture. 19x29 cm. Part I, Issued October 13, 1890, 50 plates and de 



