PA^RT II 



PAPERS DESCRIBING AND ILLUSTRATING COLLECTIONS IN 

 THE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Page. 



1. Tlie Poisonous Snakes of North America. By Leonhard Stejneger 337 



2. Chinese Games with Dice and Dominoes. By Stewart Cnlin 489 



3. The Onyx Marbles. By George P. Merrill _ 539 



4. The Cowhirds. By Maj. Charles Beudire, V. S. Army 587 



5. Primitive American Armor, By Walter Hough 625 



6. The Weajious and "Wings of Birds. By Frederic A. Lucas 653 



7. Notes on the Ethnology of Tibet. By ^^'illiam Woodville Kockhill 665 



8. Two Persepolitan Casts in the V. 8. National Museum. By Cyrus Adler.. 749 



9. Museum Collections to Illustrate Religious History and Ceremonials. By 



Cyrus Adler 755 



10, If Pul)lic Libraries, why not Public Museums? By Edward S. Morse 769 



335 



