86 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



No 922. American Inventions and Discoveries in Medicine, Surgery, and Practical 

 Sanitation, by John S. Billings, M. D. (From the Smithsonian Report for 1892.) 

 Octavo pamphlet of 8 pages. 



No. 923. The Smithsonian Institution, Revised Statutes of the United States, 1878, 

 Title LXXIII, with Amendments to March 12, 1894. Octavo pamphlet of 10 pages. 



No. 924. List of Publications of the Smithsonian Institution for Sale or Exchange. 

 May, 1894. Octavo pamphlet of 26 pages. 



III. SMITHSONIAN ANNUAL .REPORTS.* 



No. 848. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution to .July, 1891. 

 This volume contains the journal of Proceedings of the Board of Regents at the 

 annual meeting held January 28, 1891 ; the report of the executive committee of the 

 Board for the year; acts and resolutions of Congress relative to the Institution, and 

 the report of the Secretary of the Institution ; concluding with the general appendix, 

 in which are given the following papers: "Celestial si^ectroscopy," by William 

 Huggins; " Stellar numbers and distances," by A. M. Gierke; "The sun's motion in 

 space," by A. M. Gierke; "A southern observatory," by A. M. Gierke; "Applications 

 of physics and mathematics to geology," by G. Chree; "Origin of the rock pressure 

 of natural gas," by Edward Ortou ; "Geysers," by Walter Harvey Weed; "The gen- 

 eral circulation of the atmosphere," by Werner von Siemens; "The Gulf Stream," by 

 Alexander Agassiz; ''Absolute measurement of hardness," by F. Auerbach; "The 

 flow of solids," by William Hallock ; "The scientilic work of G. S. Ohm," by E. Lom- 

 mell; " Antobiographical sketch of J. von Liebig; " "Divergent evolution through 

 cumulative segregation," by J. T. Gulick; "The struggle for life in the forest," by 

 James Rodway; "Difficulties of aquatic insects," by L. C. Miall; "Geographic dis- 

 tribution of mammals," by C. Hart Merriam; "The Corbin game park," by John R. 

 Spears; "The home of the troglodytes," by E. T. Hamy; "Summary of progress in 

 anthropology in 1891," by O. T. Mason; "The mounds of the Mississippi Valley," by 

 Lucien Garr; " The use of flint blades to work pine wood," by G. V. Smith; "Time- 

 keeping among the Ghinese," by D. J. Magowan; "Navajo dye-stuifs," by Washing- 

 ton Matthews; "Some possibilities of economic botany," by George L. Goodale; 

 "The evolution of commerce," by Gardner Hubbard ; "The relation of natural science 

 to art," by E. du Bois-Reymond; the whole forming an octavo volume of xliii-f 715 

 pages ; illustrated with 36 figures in the text and 1 plate. 



No. 853. Report of the United States National Museum, Annual Report of the 

 Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, for the year ending June 30, 1891. 

 This volume comprises five sections: I. "Report of the Assistant Secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, G. Brown Goode, in charge of the National Museum, upon 

 the condition and progress of the Museum." II. "Reports of the curators of the 

 National Museum upon the progress of work during the year." III. Papers 

 describing and illusti'ating collections in the Museum : " The genesis of the National 

 Museum," by Dr. G. Brown Goode; "Ethnological collections in the Museum from 

 Kilima-Njaro, East Africa," by Dr. W. L. Abbott; "The Bernadou, Allen, and Jouy 

 Korean collections in the Museum," by Walter Hough; "Shinto, or the mythology 

 of the .Japanese," by Romyn Hitchcock; "The ancient burial mounds of Japan," by 

 Romyn Hitclicock; "Some ancient relics in Japan," by Romyn Hitchcock; "Pre- 

 historic naval architecture of the North of Europe," by George H. Boehmer; "First 

 draft of a system of classification for the AVorld's Columbian Exposition," by Dr. G. 

 Brown Goode. IV. " Bibliography of publications by the Museum, and of papers 

 relating to the Museum, during the year." V. "List of accessions to t}ie Museum 



* The papers in the General Appendix of the Annual Reports are also issued sepa- 

 ra^tely, as pamphlets, and are noted under "Miscellaneous Colleotions." 



