REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



47 



PUBLICATIONS. 



In June, 1888, the report on the operations of the National Museum 

 for the first six months of 1885 was issued as Part ii of the Annual 

 Eeport of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. This 

 volume contains i-xi, 1-264 and i-vii, 1-939 pages, the latter series of 

 pages constituting a paper by Hon. Thomas Donaldson, entitled "The 

 George Catlin Indian Gallery." This is illustrated by one hundred and 

 forty-two plates and two large maps, showing the bounds of Indian 

 reservations. 



The reports on the operations of the Museum for 1885-'86 and 1886-'87 

 are in type, and will soon be received from the Public Printer. 



The ninth volume of "Proceedings of the U. S. E'ational Museum," 

 for 18S6, was received from the Government Printing Offtce in August, 

 1887. Two hundred copies of this volume had already been received 

 in " signatures " and distributed in that form to the principal scientific 

 institutions, and also to a few individuals, in all parts of the world. 

 The first signature was published on September 17, 1886, and the last 

 on March 9, 1887. Volume 9 contains i-viii, 1-714 pages, and is illus- 

 trated by twenty-five full page plates, one of which is a chromo-litho- 

 graph, and a large number of text figures. The authors of papers in 

 this volume are twenty-seven in number, namely : James E. Benedict, 

 T. W. Blakiston, George H. Boehmer, Charles H. Bollman, E. D. Cope, 

 W. H. Dall, George E. Doering, Charles L. Edwards, Carl H. Eigea- 

 mann. Barton W. Evermann, Fernando Ferrari-Perez, Morton W. 

 Fordice, Charles H. Gilbert, Elizabeth G. Hughes, David S. Jordan, 

 George K. Lawrence, John Belknap Marcou, William G. Mazyck, George 

 P. Merrill, Eichard Eathbun, Eobert Eidgway, John A. Eyder, Eosa 

 Smith, Leonhard Stejneger, John B. Smith, Frederick W. True, John 

 Grant Wells. Nine of these are officially connected with the National 

 Museum. The papers in this volume are sixty in number, and relate to 

 the following subjects : 



Subject. 



Birds 



Pislies 



Mollusks 



Mammals 



Marine invertebrates 

 Reptiles 



No. of 

 papers. 



Subject. 



Naval arch itecture 



Materia medica 



Invertebrate fossils 



Insects 



Lithology and pliysical geology 



Total 



No. of 

 papers. 



Twenty-five signatures (Nos. 7-31 inclusive) of volume 10, Proceed- 

 ings of the U. S. National Museum, have been published. During the 

 months of February, March, April, May, and June, 1888, no signatures 

 iippeared, 



