728 The Smithsonian Institution 



In 1878 the United States National Museum began the 

 pubHcation of its " Proceedings," and in the annual volumes 

 of that series numerous articles were published describing 

 new species, and often containing important discussions of 

 the affinities and relationship, and sometimes synoptical 

 monographs of various groups. 



Although published under the general direction of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, the record of these belongs rather to 

 the history of the National Museum than to that of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, and therefore no further reference need be 

 made to them in this connection. 



INVERTEBRATES 



The marine invertebrates, with the exception of the mol- 

 lusks, had been much neglected by American naturalists, the 

 only authority who had contributed much respecting any of 

 them during the first half-century having been Thomas Say. 

 In 1853 a "Synopsis of the Marine Invertebrates of Grand 

 Manan, or the Region about the Mouth of the Bay of Fundy, 

 New Brunswick," was published in the sixth volume of the 

 " Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge." This memoir 

 has become a classic, and has made the locality whose fauna 

 is recorded in it famous as a collecting-ground. It was the 

 first complete view of the invertebrate animals of any 

 American territory that had been published in the United 

 States, and many now well-known species were for the first 

 time recorded in it. 



"A Fauna and Flora within Living Animals" is the title 

 of one of the "Smithsonian Contributions" (published in the 

 fifth volume) embodying the results of observations by Doc- 

 tor Joseph Leidy of the Jnlus marginatus (the Spiroboliis 

 7narginatus of recent naturalists) and the Passalus cornutus. 



