CONTENTS. XI 



Page. 



Prehistoric anthropoloi^y (with PI. i) 183 



Mammals 199 



Birds 207 



Birds' eggs 213 



Keplile.s and batracliians 215 



Fishes 219 



Vertebrate fossils 223 



Mollusks (iucludiug Ceiiozoie fossils) 225 



Insects 231 



Marine invertebrates 235 



Comparative anatomy 243 



Invertebrate fossils : 



Paleozoic 245 



Mesozoic 249 



Botany 251 



Fossil plants 255 



Minerals 259 



Geology 261 



Section III. — Papers Describing and Illustuating Collections in the U. S. 



National Museum. 



1. The Genesis of the National Museum. By G. Brown Goode 273 



2. Ethnological Collections in the U. S. National Museum from Kilima-Njaro, 



East Africa. By Dr. W. L. Abbott. (Figs. 1-24) 381 



3. The Bernadou, Allen, and Jouy Korean Collections in the U. S. National 



Museum. By Walter Hough. (Pis. ii-xxxii) 429 



4. Shinto, or the Mythology of the Japanese. By Romyu Hitchcock 489 



5. The Ancient Burial Mounds of Japan. By Romyn Hitchcock. (Pis. 



XXXIII-LXIII) 511 



6. Some Ancient Kclics in Japan. By Eomyn Hitchcock. (Pis. lxiv-lxvii). 525 



7. Prehistoric Naval Arcliitecturc of the North of Europe. By George H. 



Boehmer. (Pis. lxviii-lxxxiv. Figs. 25-151) 527 



8. First draft of a System of Classification for the World's Columbian Ex- 



position. By G. Brown Goode 649 



Section IV.— Bibliography of the U. S. National Museum during the Fiscal 

 Year ending June 30, 1891. 



I. Publications of the Museum 739 



II. Papers by officers of the National Museum, and other investigators, whose 



writings are based directly or indirectly on Museum material 740 



Section V. — List of Accessions to the U. S. National Museum during the 

 Fiscal Year ending June 30, 1891. 



List of accessions 767 



Index A — By locality 815 



Index B — By departments in the National Museum 827 



General index 839 



