10 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 

 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Department of the Interior: | TJ. S. National Museum. | 27 | 



Proceedings | of the | United States National Museum. | Vol. IV. j 

 j 1881. I — I Published under the direction of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution. I — I Washington: | Government Printing Office. | 1882. 



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 SvOjPp. 616 and alphabetical index; 13 Jigs., 2 plates. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. IV. 



Page. 

 Anonymous. The Companative action of Dry Heat and Sulphurous Acid upon Putrefactive ' 



Bact«ria 20C 



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



of New England 292-297 



Bean, Tarleton H. Descriptions of New Species of Fishes {Tlranidea 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 Fiah 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 Genus (De- 



lolepis) 403-474 



(See also under Goodo and Bean.) 



Bendire, Capt. Charles, U. S. A Notes on Salmonidce of the Upper Columbia 81-S7 



BOTD, C. H. Kemains of the TValrus (?) in Maine 234,235 



C ARLiN, William E. Observations of Siredon lichenoides 120, 121 



DALl, W. H. On the Genera of Chitons 279-291 



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



United States 400-414 



EXDLICH, F. M. An Analysis of Water destructive to Fish in the Gulf of Mexico 124 



Farlow, Dr. W. G. Report on the Contents of two bottles of Water from the Gulf of 

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



Mexico, forwarded by the Smithsonian Institution 234 



Gill, Theodore. Note on the Latiloid Genera i62-l(A 



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



Waters in the Gulf of Mexicd 126, 127 



Goode, G. Bro^-n. The Tasonomic Eelations and Geographical Distribution of the Mem- 

 bers of the Swordfish Family (Xiplnidce) 415-433 



Goode, G. Brown, and Tarleton H. Bean. Description of a New Species of Fish (Apogon 



pandionis), from the Deep Water ofl" the Mouth of Chesapeake Bay ICO, iGl 



Jienthodesmus, aNewGenusof Deep-sea Fishes, allied to Lepidopus 379-383 



Ha WES, George W., Ph. D. On the Mineralogical Composition of the Normal Mesozoic Dia- 

 base upon the Atlantic Border 129-134 



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



Ingersoll, Ernest. On the Fish Mortality in the Gidf of Mexico 74-80 



Japanese Legation. Catalogue of a Collection of Japanese Cotton Fiber piescnfed 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. H. Notes on the Mortality among Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico 205 



Jordan, David S., and Pierre L. Jour. 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, David S., and Charles H. Gilbert. Notes on the Fishes of the Pacific Coast of the 



United States 29-70 



Description of Sehaatiehthys mystinus 70-72 



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