CONTENTS. VII 



Page. 

 Appendix to the Secretaky s Keport— Continued. 



Packages received during the fiscal year 33 



Transportation companies 34 



Shipments made to foreign countries 34 



Shipments received from abroad 38 



Government exchanges 38 



Correspondence with foreign Governments rehitive to exchanges 39 



Public documents of the United States not supplied to the Institution. 50 



Insufficiency of foreign returns to this country ^ ... ^2 



GENERAL APPENDIX. 



I.— Record of Scientific Progress 55 



Introduction 55 



Advance of Science in the last half century, by T. H. Huxle^' 57 



Astronomy for 1866, by William C. Winlock 99 



Astronomical Bibliography for 1886 163 



North-American Geology for 1886, by Nelson H. Darton 189 



Bibliography of North- American Paleontology for 1886, by John Belknap 



Marcou 231 



Vulcanology and Seismology for 1886, by C. G. Rockwood 289 



Bibliography of Vulcanology, etc., for 1886 305 



Geography and Exploration in 1886, by William Libbey 313 



Physics in 1886, by George F. Barker 327 



Bibliograjjhy of Physics for 1886, by George F. Barker 384 



Chemistry in 1886, by H. Carrington Bolton 387 



Bibliography of Chemistry for 1^86, by H. Carrington Bolton 429 



Mineralogy in 1886, by Edward S. Dana 449 



List of mineral species and papers on same for 1886 461 



Bibliography of Mineralogy for 1886 473 



Zoology in 1886, by Theodore Gill 477 



Anthropology in 1866, by Otis T. Mason 523 



Bibliography of Anthropology for 1886 544 



II.— Miscellaneous Papers 569 



An Indian Mummy, by James Lisle 569 



Mound in Jefferson County, Tennessee, by J. C. McCormick 571 



Ancient mounds and earthworks in Floyd and Cerro Gordo Counties, 



Iowa, by Clement L. Webster 575 



Indian graves in Floyd and Chickasaw Counties, -Iowa, by Clement L. 



Webster 590 



Ancient mounds in Johnson County, Iowa, by Clement L. Webster 593 



Ancient mounds in Iowa and Wisconsin, by Clement L. Webster 598 



Mounds of the Western prairies, by Clement L. Webster 603 



The Twana, Chemakum, and Klallam Indians of Washington Territory, 



by Myron Eells 605 



Anchor stones, by B. F. Snyder 683 



Antiquities in Mexico, by S. B. Evans 689 



Biographical Memoir of Arnold Guyor, by James D. Dana 693 



Index to the volume 723 



