REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. V 



betically arranged, without tbe details of information given in similar 

 preceding lists. (Reprinted from the Smithsonian report for 1885.) 

 Octavo, 16 pp. 



64G. " Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. XXIX." This is " A Catalogue 

 of Scientific and Technical Periodicals (1005 to 1882), together with 

 Chronological Tables, and a Library Check-List." By Henry Carrington 

 Bolton. This volume is a reprint for the Miscellaneous Collections of 

 the work previously published in 1885 (No. 514), and fully described in 

 the Smithsonian report for 1885-'86. Octavo, x+773 pages. 



550. The "Scientitic Writings of Joseph Henry," in two royal octavo 

 volumes J bound to correspond with the •' Henry Memorial Volume" 

 (published by order of Congress). The first volume contains xii4- 

 523 pages, including index, and is illustrated by 10 cuts inserted in the 

 text. The second volume contains viii+559 pages, including index, 

 and is illustrated by 48 cuts inserted in the text. This work is fully 

 described in the Smithsonian report for 1885-'86. 



558. "Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. XXX." The "Scientific Writ- 

 ings of Joseph Henry." This edition of the work just above referred 

 to is reprinted on medium octavo paper, for the " Miscellaneous Collec- 

 tions" series, from the same stereotype plates. It forms a single 

 octavo volume of 1105 i)ages. 



645. " Miscellaneous Papers relating to Anthropology." By George 

 Ercol Sellers ; Charles Whittlesey ; J. P. MacLean ; Charles C. Jones, 

 jr. ; James Shepard ; Mark Williams ; and the late Henry E,. School- 

 craft. (Reprinted from tlje Smithsonian report for 1885.) An octavo 

 pamphlet of 44 pages ; illustrated by 19 cuts. 



Bulletins of the National Museum. — This series consists of monographs 

 of biological subjects, check-lists, taxonomic systems, etc., designed to 

 illustrate the mineral, botanical, zoological, and ethnological material 

 of the Museum, and are originally printed under the authority of the 

 honorable Secretary of the Interior. These papers, prepared under the 

 direction of the Smithsonian Institution, are necessarily of great variety 

 in size and range: Bulletin No. 17, for example, covering but 51 pages; 

 and Bulletin No. 27 occupying 1279 pages. A supplementary edition 

 of the bulletins from the stereotype plates is issued by the Institution, 

 and from time to time the issues are arranged or combined in volumes 

 of its Miscellaneous Collections. Thus Bulletins Nos. 1 to 10, inclusive, 

 formed Volume XIII of the Miscellaneous Collections. Bulletins Nos. 

 11 to 15, inelusive, formed Volume XXIII ; and Bulletin 10 formed Vol- 

 ume XXIV. Bulletins 17 and following have not yet been gathered 

 into the Miscellaneous Volumes. 



625. "Bulletin of the U. S. National Museum, No. 30. Bibliography 

 of Pubbcations relating to the Collection of Fossil Invertebrates in the 

 U. S. National Museum, including complete lists of the writings of 

 Fielding B. Meek, Charles A. White, and Charles D. Walcott." By John 



