OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 87 



467. Proceedings of National Museum. Vol. IV— Continued. 



Ward, L. F. Catalogue of a collection of Japanese woods presented to 



the U. S. National Museum by the University of Tokio, Japan. 

 White, C. A. On certain cretaceous fossils from Arkansas and Colorado. 

 Anonymoits. The comparative action of dry heat and sulphurous acid 



upon putrefactive bacteria. 

 Appendices — Circulars of the U. S. National Museum : 



No. 1. Plan of organization and regulations of the Bluseum. 



No. 2. Circular addressed to the friends of the Museum. 



No. 3. Circular in reference to petroleum collections. 



No. 4. Circular concerning the department of insects. 



No. 5. Establishment and officers of the Smithsonian Institution and Bluseum. 



No. G. Classification and arrangement of the materia medica collection. 



No. 7. A classification of the forms in which drugs and medicines appear and are administered. 



No. 8. Blemoranda of collectors of drugs for the materia medica section of the National Bluseum. 



No. 9. Circular in referen 'e to the building-stone collection. 



No. 10. Two letters on the work of the National Museum. 



No. 11. A provisional classification of the food collections. 



No. 12. Classification of the colleelions to illustrate the art of taxiderm}'. 



No. 13. Outline of a scheme of Bluseum classification 



No. 14. Circular requesting material for the library of the Museum. 



No. 15. The organization and objects of the National Museum. 



No. 16. Plans for the installation of collections. 



No. 17. Contributions and their acknowledgment. 



No. 18. List of publications of the United States National Museum. 



468. Smithsoniau Miscellaiieous Collections. Vol. XXII. 1882. 8vo., 

 pp. 1200, cuts 18, plates 4. 



CONTENTS. 



Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum. Vol. III. 1880. No. 425, 

 Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum. Vol. IV. 1881. No. 467. 



469. List of Foreign Correspondents of the Smithsonian Institution. Cor- 

 rected to January, 1882, 1882. 8vo,, pp. 174. 



470. Nomenclator Zoologicus, An Alphabetical List of all Generic Names 

 that have been employed by Naturalists for Recent and Fossil Ani- 

 mals from the earliest times to the close of the year 1879. In two 

 parts. Part I.^List of Generic Names employed in Zoology and 

 Paleontology to the close of the year 1879, chiefly supplemental to 

 those catalogued by Agassiz and Marschall, or indexed in the Zoolog- 

 ical Record. By Samuel H. Scudder, 1882, 8vo., pp. 398. Bul- 

 letin of the National Museum, No. 19. 



471. List of Marine Invertebrates ffom the New England Coast, distributed 



by the U. S. National Museum. Series III. — Educational Series. 

 By Richard Rathbun. 1881. 8vo., pp. 4, 



472. Plans for the Installation of Collections in the U, S, National Mu- 



seum. By G, Brown GooDE, 1882, 8vo., pp. 2. {Circular of U. 

 S. National Museum, No. 16.) 



