10 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 

 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Department of the Interior: | U. S. National Museum. | 27 | 



Proceedings | of the | United States National Museum. | Vol. IV. | 

 I 1881. I — I Published under the direction of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution. I — I Washington: | Government Printing Office. | 1882. 



(27) 

 8vo,pp. G16 and alpliabetical index; 13 Jigs., 2 plates. 



CONTENTS OF VOL. IV. 



Page. 

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



Bacteria 206 



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



of New England 292-297 



Bean, Taeleton H. Descriptions of New Species of Fishes (Uranidea marginata, Potamo- 



cottus Bendirei), and of Myctophum crenidare, J. and Gr 26-29 



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



Descriptions of Now 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 Pacific 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, U. S. N., in British 



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



lolepis) 463-474 



(See also under Goode and Bean.) 



Bkndike, Capt. Charles, 17. S. A Notes on Salmonidce of the Upper Columbia 81-87 



BoiT), C. H. Kemainsof the "Walrus (?) in Maine 234,235 



Caklin, William E. Observations of Siredon lichenoides 120, 121 



Dhll, W. H. On the Genera of Chitons 279-291 



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



United States 400-414 



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



Faelow, Dk. W. G. Keport on the Contents of two bottles of Water from the Gulf of 

 GILBERT, Charles H. (See under Jordan and Gilbert.) 



Mexico, forwarded by the Smithsonian Institution 234 



Gill, Theodore. 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 



GoODE, G. Brown. The Taxonomic Relations and Geographical Distribution of the Mem- 

 bers of the Swordflsh Family (Xiphiidce) 415-433 



Goode, G. Brown, and Tarleton H. Bean. Description of a New Species of Fish (Apogon 



pandionis), from the Deep Water oil" the Mouth of Chesapeake Bay 160, 161 



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



Ha WES, George W., Ph. D. On the Mineralogical Composition of the Normal Mesozoic Dia- 

 base upon the Atlantic Border : 129-134 



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



Ingersoll, Ernest. On the Fish Mortality in the Gulf of Mexico 74-80 



Japanese Legation. Catalogue of a Collection 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 



Johnson, S. H. Notes on the Mortality among Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico 205 



Jordan, David S., and Pierre L. Jour. 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. Gilueiit. Notes on the Fishes of the Pacific Coast of the 



United States 29-70 



Description oi Sehastichthys myst%7ius 70-72 



