756 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. 



Frederic A. Lucas. The Home of the Great Auk. 



Pop. Sci. Monthly, August, 1888, pp. 456-464. Two figures in text. 

 A description of the visit of the Grampus Expedition to Funk Island. 

 Frederic A. Lucas. The Main Divisions of the Swifts. 

 The Auk, January, 1889, pp. 8-13. Figures of skulls in text. 



A brief account of tbe osteological characters of the Swifts, by which they are divided into 

 two families, Dendrochelidonidce and Micropodidce, the latter family being subdivided into 

 Mieropodince and Chcetwinw The family Dendrochelidonidce, is established for the Tree 

 Swifts of southern Asia and tbe Malay Archipelago. 

 Frederic A. Lucas. Costal Variations in Birds. 



The Avk, April, 1889, p. 195. 



Noting the fact that the Great Auk frequently bad an extra (ninth) pair of ribs. 

 Frederic A. Lucas. Notes on the Osteology of the Thrushes, Miminse, and Wrens. 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XI, 1888, pp. 173-180, pi. xxxvii, and text figures. 



Gives briefly the osteological characters of the three groups above noted, and concludes that 

 the Mi/mince are not closely related to the Wrens. 

 Otis T. Mason. The Savages' Side-Anns. 



American Anthropologist, II, No 1, January, 1889, pp. 77, 78. 

 Finds a use for the " leaf shaped implements." 

 Otis T. Mason. How to Straighten a Spear Shaft. 

 .1 merican A nth ropologist, II, No. 2, April, 1889, p. 158. 

 Describes the method employed by the Lencas, in Honduras. 

 Otis T. Mason. The Ray Collection from Hupa Reservation. 



Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1886, Part I, pp. 205-239, 118 figures. 

 An ethnographic sketch of a small tribe of Indians of northern California, belonging to the 

 Athapascan stock. 

 Otis T. Mason. Woman's Share in Primitive Culture. 

 The American Antiquarian, XI, No. 1, 1889, pp. 3-13. 



Maintains that Spencer's division of culture into two epochs, militancy and industrialism, is 

 rather a sexual question and holds that woman originated most of our industrial occupations. 

 Otis T. Mason. The Beginnings of the Carrying Industry. 



American Anthropologist, II, No. 1, January, 1889, pp. 21-46, 8 text figures. 



Describes the first steps in the history of transportation and shows how important a factor 

 man himself has been in this industry. 

 Otis T. Mason. The Stone Age at Mount Vernon. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XI, 1888, p. 402. 

 C.Hart Merriam. Euetheia canora from Sombrero Key, Florida. A bird new to the 

 United States. 



The Auk, V, July, 1888, p. 322. 

 C. Hart Merriam. Description of the Breeding Plumage of Chadbourne's Field 

 Sparrow (Spizella arenacea) with evidence of its specific distinctness. 

 The Auk, v, October, 1888, pp. 402, 403. 

 Based on specimens from Dakota and Nebraska. 

 George P. Merrill and J. E. Whitfield. The Fayette County Meteorite. 

 Am. Jour. Science, August, 1888, pp. 113-119, 3 text figures. 



This paper gives results of microscopic and chemical examinations of a meteorite from the 

 locality mentioned, material for the same being donated by Mr. E. E. Howell, of Rochester, 

 New York. 

 George P. Merrill. On the San Emigdio Meteorite. 



Proc. U. S. Sat. Mus., XI, 1888, pp. 161-167, 1 plate, showing microstructures. 



This paper gives in detail descriptions of a stony meteorite found in the San Emigdio Moun- 

 tains, California, and of which a brief description was given in the Am. Jour. Sci., for June 

 of tbe same year. 

 George P. Merrill. On the Serpentine of Montville, New Jersey. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xi, 1888, pp. 105-111, 2 plates (showing macro- and micro-structures). 



The paper describes in some detail the origin of the serpentine by a process of metasomatosis 

 from a white non-aluminous monoclinic pyroxene. 

 George P. Merrill. On the Ophiolite of Thurmarj, Warren County, New York. 

 With notes on the Eozoon Canadense. 



Am. Jour. Sri., March, 1889, pp. 189-191. 



Gives results of microscopic examinations showing that the serpentine of this rock, results as in 

 the case of that from Montville, New Jersey, from the alteration ofanonaluminous pyroxene, 

 and calls attention to the similarity of tbe structures produced by this alteration to the 

 eozoonal structures of Dawson. 



