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has projected five series of bibliographies : those relating to 

 linguistics, amusements, industries, institutions and opinions 

 (mythology, folk-lore, etc.), and has made substantial con- 

 tributions in each. Mr. J. C. Filling's bibliographies of 

 the Algonquian, Athapascan, Chinookan, Eskimo, Iroquoian, 

 Muskhogean, Salishan, Siouan and Wakashan languages, as 

 well as his " Proof-sheets of a Bibliography of the Languages 

 of the North American Indians" (1885), are monuments of 

 the author's erudition and industry. 



George H. Boehmer compiled an " Index to Anthropologi- 

 cal Articles in Publications of the Smithsonian Institution," 

 published in the Annual Report for 1879; it covers the 

 period from 1847 to 1878. 



Captain John G. Bourke's " Medicine Men of the Apache," 

 in the Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, is 

 accompanied by a bibliography. 



The " Study of Prehistoric Anthropology," by Thomas 

 Wilson (1888), contains a bibliography of the subject. 



A partial bibliography of the ''Ethnology of the Eskimo," 

 by John Murdoch, accompanies his essay on " The Ethno- 

 logical Results of the Point Barrow Expedition," published 

 in the Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. 



Another partial bibliography of the " Central Eskimo," by 

 Franz Boas, is published in his essay on the subject con- 

 tained in the Sixth Annual Report of the same Bureau. 



Astronomy. Besides the bibliographies accompanying the 

 Records of Progress in Astronomy, noticed elsewhere, two 

 others should be named. 



" Index-Catalogue of Books and Memoirs relating to 

 Nebulae and Clusters," by Edward S. Holden. (1877.) 



" Synopsis of the Scientific Writings of Sir William Her- 

 schel," by Edward S. Holden and Charles S. Hastings. 

 (1880.) 



