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American hemiptera heteroptera, by A. L. Montandon; pp. 45-52. Catalogue 

 of the fresh-water fishes of Cen1«ral America and Southern Mexico, by Carl 

 H. Eigenmann; pp. 53-60. Catalogue of the crabs of the family maiidae in the 

 U. S. National Museum, by Mary J. Rathbun; pp. 63-103; pll. III-VIII. Notes 

 on Erian (Devonian) Plants from New Tork and Pennsylvania, by D. P. Pen- 

 hallow, McGill University, Montreal; pp. 105-118; pll. IX-XIV. Notes on Ne- 

 matophyton crassuni, by D. P. Penhallow; pp. 115-118; pll. XV-XVIII. Re- 

 port on the actiniae collected by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Alba- 

 tross during- the winter of 1SS7-18S8, by J. Playfair McMurrich; pp. 119-216; pll. 

 XIX-XXXV. Throwing sticks from Mexico and California, by Otis T. 

 Mason; pp. 210-221; 6 figs. Scientific results of explorations by the U. S. Fish 

 Commission steamer Albatross, by Mary J. Rathbun; pp. 228-260. Notes on 

 some fossil plants from the Trinity division of the Comanche series of Texas, 

 by William Morris Fontaine; pp. 261-282; pll. XXXVI-XLIII. The Shofar-^ 

 its use and origin, by Cyrus Ad^^r; pp. 287-300; pll. XLVI-XLIX. List of the 

 Diatomaceae from a deep-sea dredging in the Atlantic ocean off Delaware 

 bay by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross, by Albert Mann; pp. 

 30.3-312. Preliminary report on the molluscan species collected by the Unitea 

 States Scientific Expedition to West Africa, in lSS9-'90, by Robert E. C. 

 Stearns, Ph. G. ; pp. 317-338. Rare or little known mollusks from the west 

 coast of North and South America, with descriptions of new species, by Rob- 

 ert E. C. Stearns; pp. 341-352; pi. L. Scientific results of explorations by 

 the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross, by Robert E. C. Stearns; pp. 

 3.53-450; pll. LI, LIT; by James I. Peck; pp. 4.51-466; pll. LIII-LV. Notes on a 

 collection of birds from eastern Nicaragua and the Rio Frio, Costa Rica, with 

 a description of a supposed new trogon, by Charles W. Richmond; pp. 479-532. 

 Notice of the crustaceans collected by the United States Scientific Expedi- 

 tion to the west coast of Africa, by James E. Benedict; pp. 535-540. Descrip- 

 tive catalogue of the harvest-spiders (Phalangiidae) of Ohio, by Clarence 

 M. Weed; pp. 543-562; pll. LVII-LXIX. Scientific Results of the U. S. Eclipse 

 Expedition to West Africa, 1889-90.— Report upon the Insecta, Arachnida, and 

 Myriapoda, by C. V. Riley; pp. 565-590; pi. LXX. On some fossil Unios and 

 other fresh-water shells from the drift at Toronto, Canada, by dhas. T. 

 Simpson; pp. 591-59.5. Descriptions of some new birds collected on the Islands 

 of Aldabra and Assumption by Dr. W. L. Abbott; on the avian genus 

 Myiarchus; and small collection of birds from Costa Rica, by Robert Rider- 

 way; pp. 597-614. Birds from Tokyo, Japan, by Leonhard Stejneger; pp. 615- 

 638. Land shells of the genus Bulimulus in Lower California, by William 

 Healey Dall; pp. 639-646; pll. LXXI, LXXII. A Revision of the genus Formi- 

 carius Boddaert, by Robert Ridgway; pp. 667-688. The shell heaps of the 

 east coast of Florida, by DeWitt Webb, M. D. ; pp. 69.5-698; pll. LXXVIII- 

 LXXXIV. Notes on Myriapoda from Loanda, Africa, collected by Mr. Hell 

 Chatelaine, by O. P. Cook; pp. 703-708. New blind snakes from Africa, and 

 African reptiles and batrachians, by Leonhard Stejneger; pp. 709-740. Notes on 

 North American shells, by Robert E. C. Stearns; pp. 743-755. Natural History 

 of Aldabra Island, Indian ocean, by Dr. W. L. Abbott; pp. 759-769. Bird^ of 

 Central IMexico, with descriptions of forms believed to be new, by P. L. Jouy; 

 pp. 771-790. 



Report of the United States National Museum, for the year ending June 30, 

 1891, 869 pp.; 94 pll., bound in black cloth. Sections I and II. Reports of the 

 Assistant Secretary and curators, pp. 3-270. Section III. Genesis of the Na- 

 tional Museum, by Dr. G. Brown Goode, pp. 273-380. Ethnological collections 

 in the U. S. National Museum from Kilima-Njaro, East Africa, by Dr. W. L. 

 Abbott, pp. 381-427; figs. 1-24. Korean collections in the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum, by Walter Hough, pp. 429-488; pll. II-XXXII. Japan and the Japanese- 

 Mythology, Burial Mounds, and Ancient Relics, by Romyn Hitchcock, pp. 

 489-526; pll. XXXIII-LXYII. Prehistoric Naval Architecture of the north of 

 Europe, by George H. Boehmer, pp. 527-647; pll. LXVIII-LXXXIV; figs. 25-151. 



Report for the year ending June 30, 1892, 620 pp.; 102 pll. Sections I and II. 

 Reports of the Assistant Secretary and curators, pp. 3-217. Section IIx. 

 Papers describing and illustrating collections in the National Museum: 1. 

 Japanese wood-cutting and wood-cut printing, communicated by Mr. T. To- 

 kuno and edited by S. R. Koehler, pp. 221-244; figs. 1-5; pll. IV-XIII. 2. The 

 relation of biology to geological investigations, by Charles A. White, pp. 

 245-368; pi. XIV. 3. Scientific Taxidermy for Museums, based on a study of the 



