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names of authors and the titles of the specific articles, with 

 references to the series, volume, and number where each can 

 be found. 



In this connection may be mentioned the several editions 

 of the " List of Publications of the Smithsonian Institution 

 for sale or exchange," edited by Mr. Rhees and issued at fre- 

 quent intervals for many years. Also the " List of the Pub- 

 lications of the Bureau of Ethnology, with Index to Authors 

 and Subjects," by Frederick Webb Hodge, which bears the 

 date 1894. 



RECORDS OF PROGRESS IN SCIENCE 



IN the " Programme of Organization," approved by the Re 

 gents, December 8, 1847, provision was made for "the pub- 

 lication of a series of reports giving an account of the new 

 discoveries in science, and of the changes made from year to 

 year in all branches of knowledge not strictly professional " 

 . . . . " The reports to be prepared by collaborators eminent 

 in the different branches of knowledge." 



These reports have constituted for more than forty years 

 an important part of the appendixes to the "Annual Re- 

 ports." In 1880 they took the form of a systematic "Record 

 of Scientific Progress," and most of which contain full bib- 

 liographies, and this feature was, in part, continued until 

 1895. The reports comprised the following topics by the 

 persons named, at the dates given : 



"Anthropology," 1 8 79^93, by Otis T. Mason. 



"Astronomy," 1 879-^4, by Edward S. Holden; i885-*92, by 

 William C. Winlock. From 1883 accompanied by par- 

 tial bibliographies. That for 1887 was published in the 

 " Miscellaneous Collections." 



"Botany," 1879-83, by W. G. Farlow; 1887-88, by F. H. 

 Knowlton. 



