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ard, pp. 605-614. The distribution of scale insects, by T. D. A. Cockerell, pp. 615-626. A new 
species of rockfish from Alaska, by Tarleton H. Bean, pp. 627 and 628. Description of 
Bleekeria gilli, by Tarleton H. Bean, pp. 629 and 630. A new fish of North America, by 
Tarleton H. Bean and Barton A. Bean, pp. 631 and 632; fig.1. Descriptions of the new 
flounders, by Barton A. Bean, pp. 633-636; figs. 1-8. Eruptive rocks from Montana, by 
George P. Merrill, pp. 637-674; figs. 1-10. Deep water mollusks and brachiopods, by Wm. 
H. Dall, pp. 675-733; pll. xx1II-xxx11; 2 figs. 
Vol. XVIII, 1895, 819 pp., 35 pl., 51 figs. Diagnosis of new mollusks from the survey of the 
Mexican boundary, by W. H. Dall, pp. 1-6. Diagnosis of new mollusks from the west coast 
of America, by W. H. Dall, pp. 7-20. Diagnosis of new tertiary fossils from the southern 
United States, by W. H. Dall, pp. 21-46. Two new diplopod Myriapoda of the genus 
Orydesmus, a new genus of Diplopoda from Surinam, by O. F. Cook, pp. 52-58; 1 pl. On 
Geophilus attenuatus Say, of the class Chilopoda, by O. F. Cook, pp. 59-62. An arrange- 
ment of the Geophilide, a family of Chilopoda, by O. F. Cook, pp. 63-75. East African 
Diplopoda of the suborder Polydesmia, collected by William Astor Chanler, by O. T. Cook, 
pp. 81-112; 5 pll. East African Odonata collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott, by Philip P. Cal- 
vert, pp. 121-145; 15 figs. Synentognathous fishes and their nomenclature, by Theodore 
Gill, pp. 167-178. List of the Lepidoptera collected in Somali-land, east of Africa, by Wm. 
Astor Chanler and Lieutenant von Hoehnel, from Aldabra, Seychelles, and other eastern 
African islands, and in Kashmir, by Dr. W. L. Abbott and W. L. Holland, pp. 259-279. As- 
bestos and asbestiform minerals, by George P. Merrill, pp. 281-292. Classification and 
geographical distribution of the pearly fresh-water mussels, by Charles L. Simpson, pp. 
295-343; 1 pl. (map). Revision of North American Empide —a family of two-winged in- 
sects, by D. W. Coquillett, pp. 387-440. The genus Callinecter, by Mary J. Rathbun, pp. 
349-375; 17 pll. Catalogue of a collection of birds made by Dr. W. L. Abbott in Kashmir, 
Baltistan and Ladak; with notes on some of the species, and a description of a new 
species of Cyanecula, by Charles W. Richmond, pp. 451-503, Birds collected by Charles W. 
Abbott in the Seychelles, Amirantes, Gloriosa, Assumption, Aldabra, and adjacent islands, 
with notes on habits, etc., by the collector, by Robert Ridgway, pp. 509-546. Catalogue of 
a collection of birds made by W. L. Abbott in eastern Turkestan, the Thian-shan moun- 
tains, and Tagdumbash Pamir, central Asia, with notes on some of the species, by Charles 
W. Richmond, pp. 569-591. American scolytid beetles, by the late William Eichhoff, 
pp. 605-610, Fossil jelly fishes from the middle Cambrian terrane, by Charles D. 
Walcott, pp. 611-614; 2 pll. An annotated list of birds observed on the island of Margarita, 
and at Guanta and Laguayra, Venezuela, by Wirt Robinson, with critical notes and 
descriptions of new species, by Charles W. Richmond, pp. 649-685; 1 pl.; 1 fig. List 
of Coleoptera collected on the Tana river and on the Jombene range, East Africa, by 
Wm. Astor Chanler and Lt. Ludwig von Hoehnel, with description of new genera and 
species, by Martin L. Linell, pp. 687-716. New species of North American Coleoptera of the 
family Scarabeide, by Martin L. Linell, pp. 721-731. List of Lepidoptera collected in east- 
ern Africa, 1894, by Wm. Astor Chanler and Lt. Ludwig von Hoehnel, by W. J. Holland, pp. 
741-767. 
Report of the United States National Museum, for the year ending June 30, 1893, xxii+ 
794 pp.; 187 pll; 116 figs. Bound in black cloth. Part I. Report of the assistant secretary 
of the Smithsonian Institution in charge of the National Museum, with appendices, 
pp. 3-324; pll. -nrx. Part II. The poisonous snakes of North America, by Leonhard Stejn- 
eger, pp. 337-448; pll. 1-x1x; figs. 1-70. Chinese games with dice and dominoes, by Stewart 
Culin, pp. 489-538; pll. 1-x11; figs. 1-38. The onyx marbles: Their origin, composition, and 
uses, both ancient and modern, by George P. Merrill, pp. 539-586; pll. -xvi11. The cow- 
birds, by Major Charles Bendire, pp. 587-624; pll. 1-111. Primitive American armor, by Wal- 
ter Hough, pp. 625-652; plJ. 1-xx11; figs. 1-5. The weapons and wings of birds, by Frederick 
A. Lucas, pp. 653-664; pl. 1; figs. 1-8. Notes on the ethnology of Tibet, by William Woodville 
Rockhill, pp. 665-748; pll. r-L1r. Two Persepolitan casts ia the U.S, National Museum, by 
Cyrus Adler, pp. 749-754; pll. rand 11. Museum collections to illustrate religious history 
and ceremonials, by Cyrus Adler, pp. 755-768. If public libraries, why not public museums? 
by Edward 8. Morse, pp. 769-780. 
Tnited States Navy Department—U. S. Naval Observatory, Captain I’. V. McNair, Su- 
perintendent: The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac for 1897, 18x27 cm., bound 
in blue cloth, Simon Newcomb, Professor U. S. Navy, Superintendent, viii+534 pp. ; 2 eclipse 
maps. 
For 1898, viii+-538 pp.; 2 eclipse maps. 
Washington Observations, cloth, Capt. Frederick V. McNair, Supt., 708 pp.; 1 pl. Report 
of superintendent, pp. v-xviii. Astronomical observations and reductions, 1890, pp. 1-43. 
Observations with the 26-inch equatorial, 1890, pp. 45-52. Results of astronomical obser- 
vations, 1890, pp. 53-63. Catalogue of miscellaneous stars observed with the transit circle, 
