SIX T ION III. 



PAPERS DESCRIBING AND ILLUSTRATING THE COLLECTIONS IN THE 



D.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



1. The Museums of the Future. By (i. Brown Goode. 



2. Te Pito Te Henna, or Easter Island. By William J.Thomson, 



Paymaster, U. S. Navy. 



3. Aboriginal Skin-Dressing; a Study Based on Material in the U. S. 



National Museum. By Otis T. Mason. 



4. The Puma, or American Lion ( Felis concolor of Linnaeus). By FRED- 



ERICK W. True. 



5. Animals Recently Extinct or Threatened with Extermination, as 



represented in the Collections of the U. S. National Museum. 

 By Frederic A. Lucas. 

 (5. Thj Development of the American Rail and Track, as illustrated 

 bv the Collection in the U. S. National Museum. Bv J. ELFRETH 

 Watkins. 



7. Explorations in Newfoundland and Labrador in 1887, made in Con- 



nection with the Cruise of the U. S. Fish Commission Schooner 

 Grampus. By Frederic A. Lucas. 



8. On a Bronze Buddha in the U. S. National Museum. By CHARLES 



De Kay. (Reprint.) 



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