REPOET OF THE SECRETARY. " 95 



No. 1324. A review of the Elasmobranchiate fishes of Japan, By David Starr 

 Jordan and Henry W. Fowler. Pages 593-674, plates xxvi-xxvii, figures 1-10. 



No. 1325. The cerebral fissures of the Atlantic walrus. By Pierre A. Fish. Pages 

 675-688, plates xxviii-xxix. 



No. 1326. Description of a new species of sculpin from Japan. By David Starr 

 Jordan and Edwin Chapin Starks. Pages 689-690, figure 1. 



No. 1327. On the identification of a species' of eucalyptus from the Philippines. 

 By Joseph Henry Maiden. Pages 691, 692. 



No. 1328. Supplementary note on Bleekeria mitsukurii and on certain Japanese 

 fishes. By David Starr Jordan. Pages 693-696, plate xxx, figures 1-3. 



No. 1329. The use of the name torpedo for the electric catfish. By Theodore Gill. 

 Pages 697,698. 



No. 1330. A review of the Cepolidse or band-fishes of Japan. By David Starr 

 Jordan and Henry W. Fowler. Pages 699-702, figui'e 1. 



No. 1331. A genealogic study of dragon-fly wing venation. By James G. Needham. 

 Pages 703-764, plates xxxi-liv, figures 1-44. 



No. 1332. A review of the Cobitid?e or loaches of the rivers of Japan. By David 

 Starr Jordan and Henry W. Fowler. Pages 765-774, figures 1, 2. 



Of the bulletin series of Museum publications, Bulletin 52, Part II of Bulletin 50 

 and Part Q ot Bulletin 39 were published. 



Bulletin 52. A list of North American Lepidoptera and Key to the Literature of 

 this order of insects. By Harrison G. Dyar, Ph. D., curator of Lepidoptera, U. S. 

 National Museum, assisted by C. H. Fernald, Ph. D., the late George D. Hulst, and 

 August Busck. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1902. Octavo. Pages 

 XIX, 723. 



Bulletin 50. The Birds of North and Middle America: A descriptive Catalogue of 

 the Higher Groups, Genera, Species, and Subspecies of birds known to occur in North 

 America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies, and 

 other islands of the Caribbean Sea, and the Galapagos Archipelago. By Robert 

 Ridgway, curator, Division of Birds. Part II. Family Tanagrida' — The Tanager. 

 Family Icterida^ — The Troupials. Family Cterebidte — The Honey Creepers. Family 

 Minotilid?e— The Wood Warblers. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1902. 

 Octavo. Pages xx, 1-834, plates i-xxii. 



Instructions to Collectors of Historical and Anthropological Specimens, by 

 William Henry Holmes and Otis Tufton INIason, Part Q of Bulletin of the United 

 States National Museum, No. 39. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1902. 

 Octavo. Pages 16. 



Additional copies of several publications of the Museum, of which the stock had 

 become exhausted, were reprinted from the stereotype plates, including Volume I of 

 Bulletin 47, on Fishes of North and Middle America, and papers by Stejneger on 

 Poisonous Snakes, Ridgway on Humming Birds, and Dall's Catalogue of Shell- 

 bearing Mollusks. 



Of the series of contril)utions from the United States National Herl)arium two 

 former volumes, Nos. II and VII, were reprinted and parts 1, 2, and 3 of Volume 

 VIII. 



V. PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTROPH VSICAL OBSERVATORY. 



There was put to press toward the close of the year a re]iort on The 1900 Solar 

 Eclipse Expedition of the Astrophysical Observatory of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 by S. P. Langley aided by C. G. Abbot. This is expected to make about 25 quarto 

 pages of text with about 22 plates. 



VI. PUBLICATIONS OK THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. 



Nineteenth Annual Rei)ort of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, 1897-98. By J. W. Powell, Director. Parts I, 11. 



