726 The Smithsonian Institution 



V. " The Published Writings of Doctor Charles Girard " 

 (1891). 



Another collateral to the series just considered, but never- 

 theless an independent volume, relates to an English natural- 

 ist long very active in the study of American birds. It is 

 "The Published Writings of Philip Lutley Sclater, 1844- 

 1896" (1896). 



The Institution for a number of years also published in its 

 annual Reports, and again as separately paged pamphlets, 

 records of the progress of zoology and paleontology during 

 previous years. 



The reports on zoology, seven in number, were by Theo- 

 dore Gill, and covered the years 1879 to 1886. 



The reports on the progress of paleontology were four in 

 number, namely: those for the years 1884, 1885, and 1886, by 

 John B. Marcou ; and that for the year 1887, by Henry S. 

 Williams. 



A party for the observation of the transit of Venus in 1874 

 was sent by the government of the United States to Kergue- 

 len Island, and Doctor Jerome H. Kidder, Assistant Surgeon 

 of the Navy, served as naturalist. He published "Contribu- 

 tions to the Natural History" of the island visited, in two 

 parts (1875 and 1876) ; one embracing a general view of the 

 animals as well as plants, and the other containing an 

 account of the birds by Doctors Coues and Kidder. 



Another biological memoir by a naval medical officer was 

 the result of Doctor Thomas H. Street's collections and ob- 

 servations, and was published in the form of a bulletin of the 

 National Museum. 1 



" Contributions to the Natural History of Arctic America, 



l" Contributions to the Natural History of the United States North Pacific Surveying 

 the Hawaiian and Fanning Islands and Expedition, i873-'75," octavo, 172 pages, 

 Lower California, made in connection with Washington (1877). i 



