REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 21 



pnntcd uuder the autliority of the Secretary of the Interior. They form 



r: Independent series, .vhich has proved v-y -cepta^let. nj^.jrah^^ 



as enabling them to obtain prompt intormation as to the additions to 



and the components of the National ^luscum. ^ ,. ^ . 



The foUowing is a list of the Bulletins already f^'^f^ 



No. 1. Check-list of North American Batrachia and Keptilia, Dy 



Edward D. Cope. 1875. lOG pp. r i i K,r 



so. 2. Ooutributions to tl.c Natural History ot Korgueleu Islaml ; by 



,1. H. Kidder, M. D.; Part I, Ornithology; edited by tlliott toues. 



^'1^; :" Contributions to the Natural History of Kerguelcn Island; rave 

 11, Oology, Botany, Geology, Mammals, Fisb, Mollnsks, Insse.s, Crus- 

 taceans, Annelids, Ecldnoderms, Anthozoa; by Kulder, t-o"*--'. ^rnj, 

 Lullicb, Gill, Dall, Osteu-Saeken, Hagen, 8. J. Smith, Verrdl, and b. F. 



^"no?L KHls of Southwestern Mexico ; collected by Francis E. Sami- 

 (^hY'^^f r.v Georuc N. Lawrence. 187(5. 50 pp. 

 No. 5. Catalogue of the Fishes or the Bermudas; by G. Brown Goode. 



^'nc; (fcnl^sificationof the collection to iUustrate the Animaliles 

 of the United States; by G. Brown Goode. 187G. 130 pp. 



No 7. Contributions to the Natural History of the Hawanan ami 

 Fanning Islands, and Lower California; by Thomas H. Streets, M. D. 



''m, ^'li^x to the names which have been api>lied to the subdi~ 

 of the class Brachiopoda previous to the year 18 m ; by ^\ ilUam H. Dall. 



^^No. l^'J!!!itributionstoNorth American Ichthyology ; Part I; Eevi^-^ 

 of Eafinesque's Memoirs on North American Fishes ; by David S. Joidaii. 



1877. 53 pp. -r , .Li 1 -o,,.f7T. roi 



No. 10. Contributions to North American Ichthyology; P. it II, Co ■ 



tidre, Etheostomatidx, Percida., Centrarchid», ^^^^^^^^^^^'^^ 

 matid.^i, Cyprinida., Silnrid^c. By I>. S. Jordan. lb,b. 1.0 pp., N^.th 



45 plates. 

 No. 11. Not yet published. r , ., ^ P..vf TTT • bv 



No 12. Contributions to North American Ichthyology ; Paitlll, by 



D. S. Jordan and A. AY. Brayton. 1878. 237 pp. milotins 



Of the above, those published during the past year a«3 tl^e Bulletins 



numbered 10 and 12. The former comprises the «^^«- l^^^, I^A^^a 

 David S. Jordan's Contributions to North American Ichthyology and 

 includes notes on Cottid., Etheostomatid.e Percul., ^^^^ 

 AphododeiKhe, Dorysomatida^, and Cyprinuhe, .ith ^-^--^^ ^ ^ 

 oenera and descriptions of new or little known species; and Synopsis 

 ot th: Silurid.. of the fresh waters of North America, with a bibliogra- 

 phy of all the genem and species. It forms an octavo pamphlet ol 1-0 

 pages, with 45 plates. 



