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STEJNEGER, Leonhakd. Skeletons of 

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 various museums. 



Science, xxi, February 10, 1893, p. 81. 

 Correcting an article by Prof. B. W. Ever- 

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Notes on the i'eneric name Chirotes. 



Science, xxi, Maroli 24, 1893, pp. 157-158. 

 Shows that Bipes I.atr. has priority over Chi- 

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Annotated list of the reptiles and ba- 



trachians collected by the Death Valley 

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I-IV. 



A full report upon the herpi-tological collec 

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 Hypsiglena texana, Bascanion fiagellum fre- 

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525. (Reprint, with new title-page and 



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An elaborate treatise on wild hybrids, in wliich 



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TEST, Frederick C. Fish-cultural in- 

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Bull. IT. S. Fish Com., 1891, pp. 57-59. 

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TRUE, Fredekick W. An annotated 

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VASEY, George. Report of the Botanist 

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Hep. Sec. Agric, 1892, pp. 201-214. 

 Principally an account of the office work, pub- 

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Grasses of the Pacific Slope. 



Bull. Div. Bat., Vo. 13, U. S. Dept. Agric, 



Part I, October, 1892; Part ii, June, 1893. 



One hundred species of the principal gras.oes 



of the Pacific slope are described and 



figured. 



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Hep. Smithsonian Inst. (TJ. S. Nat. Mus.), 

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VERRILL, A. E. The Marine Nemer- 

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XXXIX. 



Based partly on material collected by the U. 

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 which will bo added to the Museum collection. 

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 phiporus multisarus, A. heterosorus, A. tetra- 

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 Tetrastemma roseum, Lineus bicolor, Micrura 

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WALCOTT, CHARLE.S DooLiTTLE. Notes 

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Am. Journ.Sci., xi.iv, July, 1892, pp. 52-57. 

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 tension across Tennessee and into Georgia. It 

 records the study of a large Middle Cambrian 

 fauna in Tennessee and the identification of a 

 Lower Cambrian horizon in Virginia and Ten- 

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The North American Continent dur- 

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1-2 Ann. Rep. U. S. Geol. S%irv., 1890-'91 (1892), 

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 and figures. 

 This is a memoir on the condition and devel- 

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