TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Page. 

 Anonymous. The Comparative action of Dry Heat and Sulphurous Acid upon Putrefactive 



Bacteria 20G 



Baird, S. F. Notes on certain Aboriginal Shell Mounds on the Coast of New Brunswick 



and of New England 292-297 



Bean, TapSctton SI. Descriptionsof New Species of Fishes (ITrafiiiea iraargimato, Potawo- 

 ••■ cottus Bcndirei). and of Myctopliuin crenulare, J. and G 26-29 



Notes on some Fishes from Hudson's Bay 127-129 



Descriptions of New Fishes from Alaska and Siberia 144-159 



Directions for Collecting and Preserving Fish 235-238 



A Preliminary Catalogue of the Fishes of Alaskan and Adjacent Waters 239-272 



A Partial Bibliography of the Fishes of the Pacitic Coast of the United States and of 



Alaska, for the year 1880 ..., 312-317 



Notes on a Collection of Fishes made by Capt. Henry E. Nichols, IJ. S. N., in British 



Columbia and Southern Alaska, with Inscriptions of New Species and a New Genus (De- 

 lolepis) 463-474 



(See also under Goode and Bean.) 



Bendire, Capt. C'harlesi, U. S. A. Notes on (S'aJmowj'dfB of the Upper Columbia 81-87 



Boyd. C. Iff. Bemains of the Walrus (?) in Maine '234,235 



(Jas-lin, '^Villiain E. OhseTvations o{ Sircdon licheTwides 120,121 



»an, W. Iff. On the Genera of 0/ii«on« 279-291 



On certain Limpets and Chitons from the Deep Waters off the Eastern Coast of the 



United States 400-414 



EndSich, F. M. An Analysis of Water destructive to Fish in the Gulf of Mexico 124 



Farloxv, Dr. W. G. Keport on the Contents of two bottles of Water from the Gulf of 



Mexico, forwarded by the Smithsonian Institution 234 



CSilbea'J, CBaarBe.^ Iff. (See under Jordan and Gilbert.) 



Crill, Thfoalorc. Note on the Latiloid Genera 162-164 



Glazier, W. C W., Assistant Surgeon, M. H. S. On the Destruction of Fish by Polluted 



Waters in the Gulf of Mexico 126, 127 



OooiJe, <R. Bro^vta. The Taxonomic Relations and Geographical Distribution of the 



Members of the Swordflsh Family {Xiphiidce) ■... 415-433 



Cloode, CJ. Bro^vn, and Tarlclon H. Hcan. Description of a New Species of Fish 



{Apogo7i pandionis) , from the Deep Water ofl" the Mouth of Chesapeake Bay 160, 161 



Benthodesmus, a New Genus of Deep-sea Fishes, allied to Lepidopus 379-383 



Halves, George W., Ph. D. On the Mineralogical Composition of the Normal Mesozoic 



Diabase upon the Atlantic Border 129-134 



On the Determination of Feldspar in Thin Sections of Rocks 134-136 



IngcrsoII, Ei-Ejcst. On the Fish Mortality in the Gulf of Mexico 74-80 



Japasjesc ILegatioii. Catalogue of l^ Collectioi^ of Japanese Cotton Fiber presented to the 

 United States National Museum by the Government of Japan, together with the Amount 



of the Annual Crop of Japan, and the Price of Cotton 449-453 



Johiir4on, S. Iff. Notes ou the Mortality among Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico 205 



Jos-daci, E5avid S., and IPicrre l,. .louy. Check-list of Duplicates of Fishes from 

 the Pacific Coast of North America, distributed by the Smithsonian Institution in behalf 



of the United States National Museum, 1881 1-18 



Jordan, David S., and Charles H. Gilbert. Notes on the Fishes of the Pacific 



Coast of iho United States 29-70 



Description of Sehastichthys mystinus 70-72 



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