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during the year." The whole forms an octavo volume of xvii -f- 869 pages; illus- 

 trated with 154 figures in the text and 84 plates. 



No. 885. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution to July, 1892. 

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

 special meeting held October 21, 1891, at the annual meeting held January 27, 1892, 

 and at a special meeting held March 29, 1892; 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 : "Meteorological work of the 

 Smithsonian Institution;" ''The history of the telescope," by C. S. Hastings; 

 "Geological change and time," by Sir Archibald Geike; "Geological history of the 

 Yellowstone National Park," by Arnold Hague ; " Soaping geysers," by Arnold Hague ; 

 "Continental prol)lems of geology,"' by G. K. Gilbert; " Pre-columbian copper min- 

 ing in North America," by R.L.Packard; " The Polynesian bow, " by E. Tregear; 

 "Hertz's experiments;" "The discharge of electricity through exhausted tubes 

 without electrodes," by J. J. Thomson ; " Molecular process in magnetic induction," by 

 J. A. Ewing; "Crystallization," by G. U. Liveing; "Rejuvenescence of crystals," by 

 John W. Judd ; "Deduction from the gaseous theory of solutions," by Orme Massou ; 

 "Suggestions regarding solutions, " by William Ramsay; "Lh^uids and gases," by 

 William Ramsay ; "Present problems in evolution and heredity," by H. F. Osborn ; 

 "Report on the migration of birds," by J. A. Palmer; "The empire of the air," by 

 L. P. Mouillard ; " Progress of anthropology in 1892," by O. T. Mason ; "The advent 

 of man in America," by A. de Quatrefages ; "Primitive industry," by Thomas Wilson ; 

 "Prehistoric New Mexican pottery," by Henry Hales; "Relics of an Indian hunt- 

 ing ground," by Atreus Wanner; "Aboriginal burial mounds in Ohio," by R.J. 

 Thompson; "Indian remains on the Upper Yellowstone," by William S. Brackett; 

 "Primitive number systems," by Levi P. Couant; "Anthropology of the brain," by 

 D. Kerfoot Shute; "The birth of invention," by Otis T.Mason; " American inven- 

 tions and discoveries in medicine, surgery, and practical sanitation," by John S. 

 Billings; " Endowment for scientific research and publication," by Addison Brown; 

 " The inventors of the telegraph and telephone," by Thomas Gray; "Explorations 

 in Mongolia and Thibet," by W. W. Rockhill; "Progress of astromony for 1891 and 

 1892," by William C. Winlock; the whole forming an octavo volume of xlix -{- 811 

 pages; illustrated with 183 figures. 



No. {586. Report at the United States National Museum. Annual Report of the 

 Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for the year ending June 30, 1892. 

 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 lor the year." II. " Reports of the curators 

 of the National Museum ui)on the progress of work during the year." III. Papers 

 describing and illustrating collections in the Museum : " Japanese wood-cutting and 

 wood-cut printing," communicated by Mr. T. Tokuno, and edited by S. R. Koehler; 

 " The relation of biology to geological investigation," byDr. Charles A. White ; "Scien- 

 tific taxidermy for museums, based on a study of the United States Government col- 

 lection," by Dr. R. W. Shufeldt ; " The shofar, its use and origin," by Dr. Cyrus Adler ; 

 "The Crump burial cave," by Frank Burns; "Minute stone implements from India," 

 by Thomas Wilson ; "Comparative oology of North American birds," by Dr. R. W. Shu- 

 feldt. IV. " Bibliography of publications by the Museum, and of papers relating to 

 the Museum during the year." V. "List of accessions to the Museum during the 

 year." The whole forms an octavo volume of xv-f-620 pages ; illustrated with 5 

 figures in the text and 103 plates. 



No. 918. Report of S. P. Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, for the 

 year ending June 30, 1893, to the Board of Regents of the Institution. Octavo 

 pamphlet of iii + 70 pages ; illustrated with 2 plates. 



