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The Cretaceous Fishes of Ceard, Bra:;il. David Starr Jordan and John 

 Casper Branner. Plates i-viii. (Published April 29, 1908.) i 



Observation of the Total Solar Eclipse of January s, 1908: A Bolometric 

 Study of the Solar Corona. C. G. Abbot. (Published April 30, 1908.) 31 



Report on a Trip for the Purpose of Studying the Mosquito Fauna of 

 Panama. August Busck. (Published May i, 1908.) 49 



Carl Ludzvig Romingcr. George P. Merriu,. (Published May i, 1908.).. 79 



Edzvard Travers Cox. George P. Merrill. (Published May i, 1908.)... 83 



An Apparently New Protoblattid Family from the Lower Cretaceous. 

 Evelyn GroesbeEck Mitchell. (Published May 27, 1908.) 85 



Necessary Changes in the Nomenclature of Starfishes. Walter K. Fisher. 



( Published May 27, 1908.) 87 



Identity of a Supposed Whitefish, Coregonus angusticeps Cuvier & Val- 

 enciennes, zvith a Northern Cyprinid, Platygobio gracilis (Richard- 

 son). William Converse Kendall. (Published May 27, 1908.).... 95 



The Millers-thumb and its Habits. Theodore Gill. (Published June 18, 

 1908.) lOI 



Notes 117 



The Nettelroth Collection of Invertebrate Fossils. R. S. Bassler. Plates 

 ix-xi. (Published September 23, 1908.) 121 



A Nezv Opuntia from Arizona. J. N. Rose. Plate xii. (Published 



October 6, 1908.) 153 



The Story of the Devil-fish. Theodore Gill. (Published October 15, 



1908.) 155 



Indians of Peru. Charles C. Eberhardt, American Consul at Iquitos, 

 Peru. Plates xiii, xiv. (Published October 24, 1908.) 181 



On Opuntia Santa-Rita, a Species of Cactus of Ornamental Value. J. N. 

 Rose. Plate xv. (Published December 29, 1908.) 195 



Two New Species of Abronia. Anton Heimerl. (Published December 

 23, 1908.) 197 



Preliminary Notice of a Collection of Recent Crinoids from the Philippine 

 Islands. Austin Hobart Clark. (Published December 23, 1908.) . . . 199 



The Relation of Richard Rush to the Smithsonian Institution. Cyrus 

 AdlER. Plate xvi. (Published January 16, 1909.) 235 



Descriptions of Some New Species and a New Genus of American Mos- 

 quitoes. Harrison G. Dyar and Frederick Knab. (Published Janu- 

 ary 12, 1909.) 253 



Notes, Plates xvii, xviii 267 



The Archer-Fish and Its Feats. Theodore Gill. (Published March 25, 



1909) 277 



The Peoples of Formosa. JulEan H. Arnold. Plates xix-xxii. (Pub- 

 lished March 25, 1909.) 287 



Our Present Knowledge of Canal Rays: A Detailed Bibliography. Gordon 

 Scott Fulcher. (Published March 25, 1909.) 295 



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