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fortunately delayed iu its issue by the Government Printing Office; the 

 first i)art, tbat relating to the Institution, having been published iu the 

 l)receding year. The Museum Report forms au octavo volume of ix4- 

 458 pages, illustrated by 105 wood-cut plates. 



C49. "Annual Keport of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the 

 Institution to July, 1885. Part I." Owing to the change made by the 

 Regents iu the period of the Secretary's report, from the civil or calen- 

 dar year to the fiscal year of the United States Government, this report 

 of the condition of the Institution embraced only the first six months 

 of the year 1885 ; or from January to June, inclusive. The volume 

 contains the Journal of Proceedings of the Board of Regents, the re- 

 port of the Executive Committee, the report of the Secretary of the 

 Institution for six months, supplemented by the report on Exchanges, 

 followed by the " General Appendix," in which is given a record of 

 scientific progress for 1885, in astronomy, by William C. Winlock ; with 

 a list of astronomical observatories, by George H. Boehmer; in vulcan- 

 ology and seismology, by Charles G. Rockwood ; volcanic eruptions and 

 earthquakes in Iceland within historic times (from the Icelandic of Th. 

 Thoioddseii) ; geography, by J. King Goodrich; physics, by George F. 

 Barker ; chemistry, by H. Carriugton Bolton ; mineralogy, by Edward 

 S. Dana ; bibliography of North American invertebrate palaeontology, 

 by J. B. Marcou; zoology, by Theodore Gill; and anthropology, by 

 Otis T. iMason ; concluding with miscellaneous anthropological papers by 

 correspondents; observations on stone-chipping, by George E. Sellers; 

 copper implements from Bayfield, Wis., by Charles Whittlesey ; ancient 

 ruins in Ohio, by J. P. MacLean ; a primitive store-house of the Creek 

 Indians, by Charles C. Jones,, jr.; shell-heaps and mounds in Florida, 

 by James Shepard ; ancient earth-works in China, by Mark Williams ; 

 plan for American ethnological investigation, by the late Henry R. 

 Schoolcraft; index to the literature of Uranium, by H. Carriugton 

 Bolton ; and pricelistof the publications of the Smithsonian Institution. 

 The whole forms an octavo volume of xviii + 99G pages, illustrated by 

 19 figures. 



G51. " Report of Prof. Spencer F. Baird, Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, for the year 1885-86." Octavo pamphlet of 83 i)ages. 



The volume containing the above report, with its accompanying pa- 

 pers, together with the second part containing the report of the Museum, 

 has not yet appeared. The usual coucurrent resolution of Congress 

 directing the printing of 16,000 copies of the reports for 1885-'8G, failed 

 to i)ass the House at its last session although it had passed the Senate 

 iu time. This has unfortunately delayed the issue of these volumes. 



Publications of the Bureau of Ethnology. — "Fourth Annual Report of 

 the Burenu of EMiuology, to the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83," 

 by J. VV. Powell, Director. The otficial report of the Director, occupy- 



