752 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. 



Paul Haupt. Dimensions of the Babylonian Ark. 



Am. Jour, of Philology, IX, pp. 419-424. Abstract Proc. Am. Orient. Soc, October, 1388, pp. 



lxxxix-xc. 

 Determination of the dimensions of the ark in the cuneiform account of the flood ; 120 half- 

 cubits for both the depth and width, and 600 half-cubits for the length. 

 Paul Haupt. Some passages in the Cuneiform Account of the Deluge. 

 Johns Hopkins University Circulars, vm, No. 69, February, 1889, pp. 17, 18. 

 New translation of column 1 of the Babylonian account of the flood on the basis of recently 

 found fragments. 

 Paul Haupt. Semitic Studies in this country. 

 Hebraiea, v, p. 89. 



Progress of Semitic study in this country during the last decade. Suggests more cooperation 

 and centralization, and the publication of a series of Semitic dictionaries in the English lan- 

 guage, especially a Hebrew-English dictionary and a National Society Biblical Archaeology. 

 Paul Haupt. Contributions to the History of Assyriology with special reference to 

 the Works of Sir Henry Rawlinson. 



Jokns Hopkins University Circulars, vm, No. 72, April, 1889, pp. 57-62. 



On the importance of the study of the history of Assyriology. Biographical sketch of Sir 

 Henry Rawlinson, byC. Johnston, jr. Tentative Bibliography of his works by W. M. Arnolt. 

 Romyn Hitchcock. Victor Schumann and His Work. 

 Anthony's Photographic Bulletin, xx, 1889, pp. 616-620. 



Romyn Hitchcock. The Action of Light on Silver Chloride. 



Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sei., 1889. 



Reprinted in Amer. Chem. Jour., xi, 1889, pp. 474-480. 

 Romyn Hitchcock. Notes on Eclipse Photography. 



Anthony's Fhotographic Bulletin, xx, 1889, pp. 680-684. 

 Romyn Hitchcock. Eikonogen and Pyrogallol, with remarks on the comparison 

 of developers. 



Anthony's Photographic Bulletin, xx, 1889, pp. 710-715. 



Read before the Chemical Society of Washington, November 14, 1889. 

 William H. Holmes. The Use of Gold and other Metals by the Ancient Inhabi- 

 tants of Chiriqui. 



Bulletin, Bureau of Ethnology, 27 pages. 

 William H. Holmes. Textile Fabrics of Ancient Peru. 



Bulletin, Bureau of Ethnology, 17 pages. 

 William H. Holmes. Ancient Art of the Province of Chiriqui. 



Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology (1888), pp. 13-187, 285 text figures. 

 William H. Holmes. A Study of the Textile Art in its relation to the Development 

 of Form and Ornament. 



Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology (1888), pp. 189-252, 358 text figures. 

 Walter Hough. The George Catlin Indian Gallery. 



The American, Philadelphia, xvu, January 5, 1889, p. 185. 



A review of Mr. Thomas Donaldson's monograph in the Smithsonian Report for 1885, part II. 

 Walter Hough. Samoa in the National Museum. 



The American (Philadelphia), xvu, March 9, 1889, p. 329. 

 Walter Hough. An interesting Collection from Thibet. 



The American (Philadelphia), xvu, p. 73. 



A notice of the W. W. Rockhill collection from Thibet in the National Museum. 

 Walter Hough. The Corrugation in African Sword Blades and other Weapons. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xi, 1888, p. 172. 

 Walter Hough. An Eskimo Striko-a-Light from Cape Bathurst. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XI, 1888, pp. 181-184: 6 figures. 



L. O. Howard. 



(See under Charles V. Riley.) 

 W. H. Hudson. 



(See under P. L. Sclater.) 

 Editors of "The Ibis". A Pteroptochian from Costa Rica. 



The Ibis, 6th ser., I, No. 2, April, 1889, p. 262. 



Mention of "the discovery in the volcano of Poas, Costa Rica, of a remarkable new bird, 

 which will apparently constitute a new genus of Pteroptochidae." (Zeledonia coronata, 

 new genus and species, soon to be described in the "Proceedings" of the U. S. National 

 Museum.) 



