TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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 Anonymons. The Comparative action of Dry Heat and Sulphurous Acid upon Putrefactive 



Bacteria 206 



Baird, S. F. Notes on certain Aboriginal Shell Mounds on the Coast of New BrunswicTc 



and of New England 292-297 



Bean, Tarlcton H. Descriptions of New Species of Fishes ( Uranidea marginata, Potamo- 



cottus Bendirei), and of Myctophum crenulare, J. and G- 26-29 



Notes on some Fishes from Hudson's Bay 127-129 



Descriptions of New Fishes from Alaska and Siberia 144-159 



Directions for Collecting and Preserving Fish 235-238 



A Preliminary Catalogue of the Fishes of Alaskan and Adjacent Waters 239-272 



A Partial Bibliography of the Fishes of the Pacific Coast of the United States and of 



Alaska, for the year 1880 -. 312-317 



Notes on a Collection of Fishes made by Capt. Henry E. Nichols, U. S. N., in British 



Columbia and Southern Alaska, with Descriptions of New Species and a New Grenus {Z>e- 



lolepis) 463-474 



(See also under Goode and Bean.) 



Bendire, Capt. Charles, U. S. A. Notes on >SoZ?»omdflE of the Upper Columbia .. 81-87 



Boyd, C. H. Remains of the Walrus (?) in Maine 234,235 



Carlin, William B. Ohservsitions o{ Siredon lichenoides 120,121 



Ball, W. H. On the Genera of OMtoTi* 279-291 



On certain Limpets and Chitons from the Deep Waters off the Eastern Coast of the 



United States - 400-414 



Bndlich, F. OT. An Analysis of Water destructive to Fish in the Gulf of Mexico 124 



FarloTT, Br. W. Cr. Report on the Contentb of two bottles of Water from the Gulf of 



Mexico, forwarded by the Smithsonian Institution 234 



Oilbert, Charles H. (See under Jordan and Gilbert.) 



Oill, Theodore. Note on the Latiloid Genera 162-164 



Olazier, W. C. W., Assistant Surgeon, M. H. S. On the Destruction of Fish by Polluted 



Waters in the Gulf of Mexico 126,127 



doode, €r. BroTfn. The Taxonomic Relations and Geographical Distribution of the 



Members of the Swordfish Family (Xiphiidce) 415-433 



Croode, Cr. Brown, and Tarleton H. Bean. Description of a New Species of Fish 



(Apogon pandionis), from the Deep Water off the Mouth of Chesapeake Bay 160, 161 



Benthodesmus, a New Genus of Deep-sea Fishes, allied to Lepidopus 379-383 



Ilawes, George W., Ph. D. On the Mineralogical Composition of the Normal Mesozoic 



Diabase upon the Atlantic Border 129-134 



On the Determination of Feldspar in Thin Sections of Rocks 134-136 



Ingcrsoll, Brnest. On the Fish Mort.ality in the Gulf of Mexico 74-80 



Japanese liCgation. Catalogue of »• Collection of Japimese Cotton Fiber presented to the 



United States National Museum by the Government of Japan, together with the Amount 



of the Annual Crop of Japan, and the Price of Cotton 449-453 



Johnson, S. II. Notes on the Mortality among Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico 205 



Jordan, David 8., and Pierre Ij. Jouy. Check-list of Duplicates of Fishes from 



the Pacific Coast of North America, distributed by the Smithsonian Institution in behalf 



of the United States National Museum, 1881 1-18 



Jordan, Barid S., and Charles B[. Gilbert. Notes on the Fishes of the Pacific 



Coast of 1 he United S tates 29-70 



Desciiptiou of Sebastichthys mystinus 70-72 



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