﻿SMITHSONIAN 



MISCELLAIOCS COLLECTIONS. 



VOL. XXXIX. 



EVERY MAN IS A VALUABLE MEMBER OF SOCIETY WHO BY HIS OBSERVATIONS, RESEARCHES, 

 AND EXPERIMENTS PROCURES KNOWLEDGE FOR MEN."— SMITHSON, 



WASHINGTON CITY: 

 PUBLISHED BY THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



1899. 



