66 r^:port of commissioner of fish and fisheries. 



Report oil the salmon and siiliiKiu rivers of Alaska, with notes on tlio conditions 

 methods, and needs of the salmon fisheries. IJy Tarleton II. I5(!an. (Hnllotin, 1889, 

 pp. im (o208.) 



'I"ho lisliinjjj-groiinds of Uristcd 15ay, Alaska: A i)reliminary report upon the inves- 

 tij^ations of the U. S. Fisli Commission steamer Alhatronx during the sunnuer of 1890. 

 liy Lieut. Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. Navy. (Bulletin, 1889, pp. 219 to 288.) 



Notes on an improved form of oyster-tongs. Uy IIugliM. Smith. (Bulletin, 1889, 

 pp. 161 to 1G3.) 



A contribution to the life-history of Dibothrium cordiceps Leidj', a parasite infesting 

 the trout of Yellowstone Lake. By Edwin Linton, rn. i). (Bulletin, 1889, pp. 337 

 to 358. ) 



The collections made by the Fish Ooraiiiission steamer Albatross dur- 

 mg the years 1887, 1888, and 1889 will, in accordance with law, be de- 

 posited in the U. S. I^Tational Museum, under direction of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. The following papers giving the results of the 

 study of tlie collections, w('re published in the Proceedings of the U. S, 

 National Museum under the general title, "Scientific Kesults of Explo- 

 rations by the IT. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross.'''' They are: 



No. I. Birds collected on the Galapagos Islands in 1888. By Robert Ridgway, 

 curator of the department of birds. (Proc. U. S. N. M., 1889, pp. 101 to 128.) 



No. II. Birds collected on the island of Santa Lucia, West Indies, the Abrolhos 

 Islands, Brazil, and at the Straits of Magellan, in 1887-88. By Robert Ridgwaj', 

 curator of the department of birds. (Proc. U. S. N. M., 1889, pp. 129 to 139.) 



No. III. Report on the batrachians and reptiles collected in 1887-88. By E. D. 

 Cope. (Proc. U. S. N. M., 1889, pp. 141 to 147.) 



No. IV. Descriptions of new species of fishes collected at the CTalapagos Islands 

 and along the coast of the United States of Colombia, 1887-88. I^y David Starr 

 Jordan and Charles Harvey Bollman. (Proc. U. S. N. M., 1889, pp. 149 to 183.) 



No. V. Annotated catalogue of the insects collected in 1887-88. By L. O. Howard, 

 acting curator of the department of insects. (Proc. IT. S. N. M., 1889, pp. 18.5 to21G.) 



No. VI. List of the plants collected in Alaska in 1888. By Dr. (reorge Vasey. 

 (Proc. U. S. N. M., 1889, pp. 217 to 218.) 



No. VII. Preliminary report of the collection of nudlusca and brachiopoda obtained 

 in 1887-88. By William ITealy Dall, a. m., curator of the department of mollusks. 

 (Proc. U. S. N. M., 1889, pp. 219 to 362.) 



No. VIII. Descriptlonof a newcottoid lish from British Columbia. By Tarleton II. 

 Bean, ichthyologist, U. S. Fish Commission. (Proc. U. S. N. M., 1889, pp. 641 to 642.) 



No. IX. Catalogue of fishes collected at Port Castries, St. Lucia, by the steamer 

 Albatross, November, 1888. By David Starr Jordan. (Proc. U. S. N. M., 1889, pp. 645 

 to 652.) 



No. X. On certain mesozoic fossils from the i.slands of St. Paul and St. Peter, in 

 the Straits of Magellan. By Charles A. White. (Proc. V. S. N. M., 1890, pp. 13, 14.) 



No. XI. New fishes collected off the coast of Alaska and the adjacent region south- 

 ward. By Tarleton H. Bean. (Proc. II. S. N. M., 1800. pp. 37 to 45.) 



No. XII. A preriininary re])ort on the fishes collected by tln^ steamer ^/^w^ross on 

 the Pacific c*oast of North America during the year 1889, with descriptions of twelve 

 new genera and ninety-two new species. I'.y Chailos H. (Jilbert, professor of zoology, 

 University of Indiana. (Proc. U. S. N. M., 1890, pp. 49 to 126.) 



No. XIII. Catalogue of skeletons of birds c(dleeted at the Abrolhos Islands, Brazil, 

 the Straits of Magellan, and tlie Calapagos Lslands, in 1887-88. By Frederic A. 

 Lucas, assistant curator of the department of comparative anatomy. (Proe,. U.S.N.M., 

 1890, pp.127 to 130.) 



