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made in connection with the Howgate Polar Expedition " in 

 1877-78 (1879), were by Ludwig Kumlein. 



A contribution to zoogeography was a memoir "On the 

 Zoological Position of Texas," by Professor Edward D. Cope, 

 which was published in 1880. 



The visits to the island of Bermuda, whose fishes were 

 catalogued in 1876 by Doctor Goode, further fructified in 

 1884 in "Contributions to the Natural History of the Ber- 

 mudas," edited by the same gentleman, and including articles 

 by seven other contributors on the various classes of animals, 

 as well as in botany and geology. 



The Institution took an active part in various exhibitions, 

 and prepared catalogues of considerable general value as 

 guides for forming as well as for viewing the collections. 

 The most important of these, all of which were prepared by 

 Doctor G. Brown Goode are : " Classification of the Collec- 

 tion to Illustrate the Animal Resources of the United States. 

 A List of Substances derived from the Animal Kingdom, 

 with Synopsis of the Useful and Injurious Animals, and a 

 Classification of Methods of Capture and Utilization " (1876) ; 

 " Catalosfue of the Collections to Illustrate the Animal Re- 

 sources and the Fisheries of the United States, exhibited 

 at Philadelphia, in 1876, by the Smithsonian Institution and 

 the United States Fish Commission, and forming a part of 

 the United States National Museum" (1879); "Exhibition 

 of the Fisheries and Fish Culture of the United States of 

 America at the Internationale Fischerei-Ausstellung held at 

 Berlin, April 20, 1880, and forming a part of the Collections 

 of the National Museum, made by the United States Fish 

 Commission" (1880); and "Descriptive Catalogues of the 

 Collections sent from the United States to the International 

 Fisheries Exhibition, London, 1883, constituting a Report 

 upon the American Section" (1884). 



