116 KEPOKT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Proc. 1190. List of Shells collected by Vernon Bailey in Heron an<l Eagle lakes, 

 Minnesota, with Notes, by Kobert E. C. Stearns. 8°. pp. 135-138. 



Proc. 1191. Description of a New Variety of Haliotis from California, with faunal 

 and geographical notes, by Eobert E. C. Stearns. 8°. jip. 139-142. 



Proc. 1192. On the Lower Silurian (Trenton) Fauna of Bafhn Land, by Charles 

 Schuchert. S°. pp. 143-177, with plates XII-XIV. 



Proc. 1193. Some Neocene Corals of the United States, by Henry Stewart Gane. 

 8°. pp. 179-198, with plate XV. 



Proc. 1194. A New Fossil Species of Caryophyllia from California, and a New 

 Genus and Species of Turbinolid Coral from Japan, by T. Wayland Vaughan. 8°. 

 pp. 199-203, with plate XVI. 



Proc. 1195. Notes on Birds Collected by Dr. W. L. Al)lx)tt in Central Asia, liy 

 Harry C. Oberholser. 8°. pp. 205-228. 



Proc. 1196. Notes on Some Birds from Santa Barbara Islands, California, by 

 Harry C. 01)erholser. 8°. pp. 229-234. 



Proc. 1197. Catalogue of a Collection oi Birds from INIadagascar, liy Harry C. 

 Oberholser. 8°. pp. 2.35-248. 



Proc. 1198. Report on a Collection of Dipterous Insects troui I'uerto Rico, l)y 

 D. "\V. Cbquillett. 8°. pp. 249-270. 



Proc. 1199. The Decapod Crustaceans of West Africa, l)y Mary ,T. Rathbun. 8°. 

 pp. 271-316. 



Proc. 1200. Description of a New Bird of the Genus Dendrornis, ])\ Charles W. 

 Richmond. 8°. pp. 317,318. 



Proc. 1201. Descriptions of New Birds from Lower Siam, by Charles \Y. Rich- 

 mond. 8°. pp. 319-321. 



Proc. 1202. On the Genera of the Chalcid-flies belonging to the Subfamily Encyr- 

 tinae, by William H. Ashmead. 3°. pp. 323-412. 



Part 4 of Bulletin 47, entitled "The Fishes of North and Middle America," by 

 Doctors Jordan and Evermann, was issued before the close of the fiscal year. This 

 volume, which contains 392 plates, with exiilanations and a general table of contents, 

 completes one of the most important Avorks thus far published in the Bulletin series. 



Bulletin of the United States National IVIuseum, No. 47. The Fishes of North and 

 Middle America. By David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann. Part IV. 

 Washington: Government Printing Oiiice. 1900. 8°. pp. CI, 3137-3313, Plates I- 

 CCCXCII. 



The Methods Employed at the Naples Zoological Station for the Preservation of 

 Marine Animals, by Salvatore Lo Bianco. Translated from the original Italian by 

 Ednumd Otis Hovey. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 39, Part M, Oct. 2, 1899, pp. 

 [l]-[42]. 



Directiims for Preparing Study Specimens of Small Mammals, by Gerrit S. Miller, jr. 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 39, Part N, Aug. 26, 1899, pp. [l]-[l6], with 1 fig. 



Directions for Collecting and Rearing Dragon Flies, Stone Flies, and May Flies, by 

 James G. Needham. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 39, Part 0, Nov. 29, 1899, pp. 

 [l]-[9], with figs. 1-4. 



VI. ANNALS OF ASTROPnYSICAL OBSERVATORY. 



Annals of the Astrophysical Observatory of the Smithsonian Institution. Volume I. 

 By S. P. Langley, Director, aided by C. G. Abbot. Washington: Government Print- 

 ing Oflice. 1900. Quarto, pp. vii, 266, with 36 plates. 



VII. PUBLICATIONS OF THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. 



Part 2 of the Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology 

 was published during the year, but the completion of Part I has Ijeen delayed. Tlie 

 printing of the Eighteenth Report was nearly completed, and the Nineteenth Report 

 was transmitted to the Public Printer. Some progress was also made in the printing 

 of the first bulletin of the new series authorized bj' Congress. 



