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Voluiae XX consists of the following parts : 



1. Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington. Vol. I, 

 March, 1871, to June, 1874, 8vo., 218 pp., 3 wood-cuts. 



2. Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington. Vol. II, 

 October, 1874, to November 2, 1878, Svo., 452 pp.,0 wood-cuts and 4 

 plates. 



3. Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington. Vol. Ill, 

 i^ovcmber 9, 1878, to June 19, 1880, 8vo., 109 pp., 7 wood-cuts. 



Volume XXI contains the following memoirs : 



1. James Smithsou and his Bequest. Bj"^ William J. Ehees, 1880, 

 Svo. 76 pp., 9 plates. 



2. The Scientific Writings of James Smithson. Edited by William J. 

 Rhees, 1879, 8vo., 166 pp., 32 wood-cuts and 1 plate. 



3. A Memorial of Joseph Henry, 1880, 8vo., 532 pp., and 1 plate. This 

 latter work comprises, 1st., an account of the obsequies, with funeral 

 sermon, &c. ; 2d the memorial addresses and services at the National 

 Capitol, by direction of Congress; and, 3d, as an appendix, selected 

 proceedings of and addresses before learned societies with which Pro- 

 fessor Henry had been more intimately connected. 



Bulletins of the National Museum. — This series of octavo publications, 

 illustrating the zoological and ethnological collections in the United 

 States National Museum, has been authorized, as heretofore stated, by 

 the Department of the Interior, and the expenses of printing a first 

 issue of the same are sustained by that department. The stereotype 

 plates are subsequently emplo^^ed in making up volumes of the '' Miscel- 

 laneous Collections." During the year Bulletin No. 21 has been pub- 

 lished, comprising a carefully prepared digest revising the " Nomen- 

 clature of North American Birds, chiefly contained in the United States 

 National Museum," by Eobert Eidgway, 1881, 8vo., 94 pp. 



Proceedings of the National Museum. — In continuation of the system- 

 atic descrii^tion of new species received by the National IMuseum, and 

 other papers of interest to the naturalist, collected under the title of 

 <' Proceedings," a volume has been published during the year, comi)ris- 

 ing valuable papers by Tarleton H. Bean, S. T. Cattie, F. M. Endlich, 

 Samuel Garman, Charles H. Gilbert, Theodore Gill, G. Brown Goode, 

 O. P. Hay, Angelo Heilprin, David S. Jordan, George N. Lawrence, W. 

 N. Lockington, Ptichard Rathbun, Eobert Eidgway, John A. Eyder, 

 Eosa Smith, S. I. Smith, James G. Swan, A. E. Verrill, and Charles A. 

 White. This completes volume III of Proceedings of the United States 

 National Museum. 1881, 8vo., 594 pp. 



Checlc-list of Smithsonian Publications. — During the latter part of the 

 year a new and revised edition of the list of publications of the Institu- 

 tion was printed, forming No. 487 of the Miscellaneous Collections. (De- 

 cember, 1881), 8vo., 22 pp. 



