CONTENTS. XI 



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 List of tho principal libraries in the United States to which it is desired to 



send future publications of the National Museum tlH) 



List of foreign libraries t<> which ii is desired to send future publications of 



the National Museum 268 



Section II. — Reports of the Curators. 



Ethnology 281 



Oriental antiquities 2dl) 



Transportation 293 



Graphic arts HOI 



Prehistoric anthropology (with Plates v-xi) 317 



Aboriginal pottery 341 



Forestry 343 



Mammals 3i;t 



Birds 357 



Birds' eggs 363 



Reptiles and batrachians 365 



Fishes 369 



Mollusks (including Cenozoic fossils) 371 



Insects 377 



Marine invertebrates ;;si 



Comparative anatomy 357 



Invertebrate fossils: 



Paleozoic *,„ 391 



Mesozoic 397 



Botany 399 



Minerals 401 



Lithology and physical geology 405 



Metall urgy and economic geology 413 



Living animals 4 17 



Section III.— Papers Describing and Illustrating Collections in the U. S. 



National Museum. 



I. The Museums of tho future. By G. Brown Goode 4-J7 



II. The Ethnology and antiquities of Easter Island (with Plates XII-LX, 



and Figs. 1-20). By Wiu. J. Thomson, paymaster, U. S. Navy 447 



III. Aborigional skin-dressing. A study based on material in the U. S. Na- 



tional Museum (with Plates lxi-xciii). By Otis T. Mason 553 



IV. The Puma, or American lion, Felia concolor of Linnaeus (with Plate 



xciv). By Frederick \V. True 591 



V. Animals recently extinct, or threatened with extermination, as repre- 

 sented in the collections of the U. S. National Museum (with Plates 



\< v 1 \ , Figs. 21 and 22, and Maps 1-7). By Frederic A. Lucas 609 



VI. The development of the American rail and track, as illustrated by the 

 collection in the F. S. National Museum (with Figs. 23-137). By J. 



Elfreth Wackins <;;.l 



VII. Explorations in Newfoundland and Labrador in 1887, made in connec- 



tion with the cruise of the IT. S. Fish Commission schooner Grampus 



(with Plate CVI). By Frederic A. Lucas 709 



VIII. On a bronze Buddha in the I'. S. National Museum (with Plate evil). 



By Charles Do Kay 7 j.i 



Section IV.— Bibliography op THh: U. S. National Museum 7:;? 



I. Publications of the Museum 7;;:) 



