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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1904. 



ORTMANN, A. E. [Review of] The 

 cosmopolitan character of the deep sea 

 fauna. 



Science (new series), xix, No. 491, May 27. 

 1904, pp. 827, 828. 

 A review of a paper with the above title 

 read before the Academy of Science and Art 

 of Pittsburg, Feb. 2, 1904. The paper is based 

 on a small collection of deep-sea sehizopoda 

 from the Hawaiian Islands, collected by the 

 U. S. Bureau of Fisheries steamer Albatross, 

 and now belonging to the I T . S. National 

 Museum. 



PHALEN, William C. Notes on the 

 rocks of Nugsuaks Peninsula and its 

 environs, Greenland. 



Smithsonian Misc. Colls., xi.v, Quar. 

 issue, I, pts. 1, 2, Jan. 7, 1904, pp. 183- 

 212, 3 pis. 

 Describes the rocks of the peninsula, their 

 mineral composition, microscopic structure, 

 and chemical composition. An attempt is 

 also made to classify them by the method 

 suggested by Messrs. Cross, Iddings, Wash- 

 ington, and Pirsson. 



A new occurrence of unakite. 



Smithsonian Misc. Colls., xi.v, Quar. 

 issue, I, pts. :;, 4, Apr. 11, 1904, pp. 306- 

 316, 3 pis. 

 The paper describes an interesting occur- 

 rence of the epidotic granite, such as was first 

 named unakite by Bradley, and which here 

 occurs as a contact rock in connection with 

 more basic eruptives. 



PRENTISS, Daniel Webster. Descrip- 

 tion of an extinct mink from the shell 

 heaps of the Maine coast. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., xxvi, No. 1336,July 



6, 1903, pp. 887, 888, 1 text tig. 

 Lutreola macrodon (p. 888) 



RATHBUN, Mary .1. A preoccupied 

 crah name. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xvu, Apr. 9, 1904, 

 p. 102. 

 Melia Latreille, in common use, should be 

 superseded by Lybia Milne-Edwards. 



Decapod crustaceans of the North- 

 west coast of North America. 



Harriman Alaska Expedition, x, Apr. 18, 



1904, pp. 1-190, pis. I-X, text figs. 1-95. 

 Based on material collected by the Harri- 

 man Expedition, and by the U. S. Bureau 

 of Fisheries, I»r. W. II. Dall and others. 

 Descriptions and figures of all the little-- 

 known species are given, and also a check- 

 list Of all the species of the region. One 



species, Bctxus harrimani, is described as new. 



RATHBUN, Richard. Report upon the 

 condition and progress of the U. S. 

 National Museum during the year end- 

 ing June 30, 1901. 



Rep. Smithsonian lust. (U. 8. Nat. Mus.), 



1901 (1903), pp. 1-174. 



Report upon the condition and 



progress of the U. S. National Museum 

 during the year ending June 30, 1902. 



Rep. Smithsonian Inst. (U.S. Nat. Mus.), 



1902 (1903), pp. 1-168. 



RAVENEL, W. de C. The United States 

 Commission of Fish and Fisheries, and 

 its exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase 

 Exposition, St. Louis, Mo., 1904. 



8vo., pp. 1-54, frontispiece. (Press of 

 Gibson Brothers, Washington. D. C.) 



REHN, James A. G. Studies in Ameri- 

 can mantids or soothsayers. 



Proc, U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvn, No. 1364, 

 Feb. 6, 1904, pp. 561-574. 



Studies in old world forficulids or 



earwigs, and blattids or cockroaches. 

 Proc. U. S. Not. Mus., xxvn, No. 1363, 

 Feb. 16, 1904, pp. 539-560. 



(See also under Gerrit S. Mil- 



ler, Jr. ) 

 RICHARDSON, Harriet. Isopods col- 

 lected at the Hawaiian Islands by the 

 United States Fish Commission steamer 

 Albatross. 



Hull. U. S. Fish Com. for 1903, Sept. 17, 

 1903, pp. 47-54, text tigs. 1-8. 

 Nine species were collected, of which four 

 are described as new and two represent new 

 genera. 



Contributions to the natural his- 



tory of the Isopoda. 



Proc, U. S, No!. Mus.,\x\u, No. 1350, Jan. 

 19, 1904, pp. 1-89, text figs. 1-92; No. 

 1369, Apr. 18, 1904, pp. 657-681, text figs. 

 1-39. 

 No. 1350 includes the following: An intro- 

 duction dealing with the classification, anat- 

 omy, development, habits, distribution, etc. 

 of the Isopoda; and four systematic papers 

 bearing the subtitles: 



I. Isopoda collected in Japan in the year 

 1900 by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer 

 Albatross, and in the year 1881 by the U. S. S. 

 Palos. 



II. Isopoda collected in Japan by Jordan 

 and Snyder. 



III. Two new Cymothoids from the west 

 coast of ( 'cut ral America. 



IV. American Kpicaridca. 



