80 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Proc. 1172. The FoHsil Bison of North America, By P'rederic A. Lucas. <S°. pp. 

 775-771, with 20 platen and 2 tigures. 



Proc. 1173. Petrographic Report on Rocks from the United States-]Mexico Boun- 

 dary, by Edwin C. E. Lord. 8°. pp. 773-782, with 1 plate. 



Proc. 1174. The Land Reptiles of the Hawaiian Islands, by Leonhard Stejneger 

 8°. pp. 783-813, with 13 figures. 



Proc. 1175. Key to the Isopods of the Pacific Coast of North America, with De- 

 scrii^tions of Twenty-two new Species, by Harriet Richardson. 8°. pp. 815-869, 

 with 34 figures. 



Proc. 1176. Description of a New Species of Subterranean Isopod, by W. P. Hay. 

 8°. pp. 871-872, with 1 plate. 



Proc. 1177. Synopsis of the Recent and Tertiary Leptonacea of North America 

 and the West Indies, by William H. Dall. 8°. pp. 873-897, with 2 plates. 



Proc. 1178. Description of a new Genus and Species of Discoglossoid Toad from 

 North America, by Leonhard Stejneger. 8°. pp. 899-901, with 1 plate. 



Bulletin of the U. S. National Museum, No. 47. The Ushes of North and Middle 

 America: a descriptive catal(jgue of the sjiecies of fish-like vertel)rates found in the 

 waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. By David Starr Jordan 

 and Barton Warren Evermann. Parts II and III, 8°, pp. xxx, 1241-2183, xxiv, 

 2183a-3136. Part I of this Bulletin was published in 1896. The complete work will 

 include an atlas of plates. 



VI. Bl-REAr OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. 



No publications were comj)leted by the Bureau of Ethnology during the year, the 

 seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth reports being in various stages of printing 

 or preparation. 



VII. ASTROPIIYSICAL OBSERVATORY. 



There was transmitted to the Public Printer near the close of the fiscal year the 

 manuscript and drawings of Volume I, Annals of the Astrophysical Observatory, to 

 be printed in quarto form in the general style of the Smithsonian Contributions to 

 Knowledge. Some progress was made in engraving the illustrations, but no proof 

 of the text was received. 



VIII. NATIONAL ZOOLOC.ICAL PARK. 



The Zoological Park issued the following i)aniphlet: Animals Desired for the 

 National Zoological Park at Washington, District of Columbia, United States of 

 America. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899. Imperial octavo, pp. 16, 

 with a map, 11 plates, and 14 text figures. 



IX. AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. 



The Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the year 1897 was 

 completed during the year, and the report for 1898 was transmitted to the Public 

 Printer. The contents of the 1897 volume were enumerated in the last report by 

 the editor. The 1898 volume contains the following papers: 



Report of Proceedings of Fourteenth Annual Meeting in New Haven, Connecticut, 

 December 28-30, 1898, by Herbert B. Adams, secretary. 



Report of the treasurer. List of committees and officers. 



Inaugural address b\' Prof. G. P. Fisher, president of the association, on the Func- 

 tion of the Historian as a Judge of Historic Persons. 



The Historical Manuscripts in the Library of Congress, by Herbert Friedenwald. 



American Colonial History (1690-1750) , by C. M. Andrews. 



Study of American Colonial History, by H. L. Osgood. 

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