714 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. 



W. T. HORNADAY. The Passing of the Buffalo. 



The Cosmovolitan Magazine, iv, Nog. 2 and 3, October and November, 1887, pp. 85-98 and 

 231-243. Fifteen illustrations. 



A popular account of the Smithsonian Expedition for American Bison, and its results. The 

 illustrations of bisons are highly finished wood engravings from photographs of the specimens 

 mounted for the National Museum group, and by many are considered the finest representa- 

 tions of the species ever published. 

 Walter FIough. An Eskimo Strike-a-ligh.t from Cape Bathurst, British America. 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. AIus., xi, 1888, pp. 181, 184. 



Keprinted in "Scientific American Supplement," xxvii, No. 694, April 20, 1889. 

 This paper describes a very complete set of fire-making apparatus used by the Estimo of 

 Cape Bathurst, a region lying halt way between the great groups of the east and the Alaskan 

 Eskimo. The ordinary processes of fire-making among the we.stern Eskimo have been de- 

 scribed by Mr. Hough in an extended paper, published in this volume. The strike-alight 

 herein described consists of a cylinder of pyrites, or sulphate of iron, a piece of flint, and a 

 little pouch of dried cedar bark, to serve as a tinder, the whole packed in a water-proof bag of 

 fur and arranged in the most convenient manner. The importance of this specimen lies in the 

 fact that it raises the question of the antiquity of this method of fire-making among the aborig- 

 ines of America. 

 Walter Hough. Notes on the Ethnology of the Congo. 

 American Naturalist, xxi, 1887, pp. 689-693. 



A r6sum6 of technological processes and notice of customs as brought out by observation of 

 the collections from the Congo in the U. S. National Museum. Smelting, quality of irnu, 

 manufacture of weapons, kinds of weapons, originality and conventionality in design, mode of 

 execution, money, clothing, weaving, food, religion. 

 Walter Hough. The Magic Mirror of China and Japan. 



American Naturalist, xxii, January, 1888, pp. 86-88. 

 J. Amory Jeffries. A Description of au Apparently New Species of Trochilus 

 from California. 



The Auk, v, pp. 168, 169. 



Described as a new species, Trochilus violajugulum. Compared with specimens in the 

 National Museum. 

 David S. Jordan. Note on the "Analyse de La Nataro" of Rafinesqne. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 1887, pp. 480, 481. 

 David S. Jordan. Description of a new species of CaUionymus {Callionynius bainii.) 

 from the Gulf of Mexico. 



Proc. TT. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, pp. 501,502. 

 David S. Jordan. Note on Folyneiniis calif omiensis of Thomiuot. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, p. 322. 

 David S. Jordan and Carl H. Eigenmann. Notes on a collection of fishes sent by 

 Mr. Charles C. Leslie, from Charleston, South Carolina. 

 Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, pp. 269, 270. 

 David S. Jordan and C. H. Gilbert. Description of a new species of Thalassopliryne 

 ( Thalassojyhripie dowi), from Punta Arenas and Panama. 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 1887, p. 388. 

 P. L. JouY. Cormorant Fishing. 



Evening Post, New York, October 13, 1887, p. 3. 



Correspondence to the "Evening Post," from Boston, giving an abstract of Mr. Jouy's 

 paper on the subject of Cormorant Fi&hing in Japan, as read before the aunual meeting of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union held in Boston, October, 1887. 

 P. L. JoUY. On Cormorant Fishing in Japan. 



American Naturalist, xxii, January, 1888, pp. 1-3. 



An accoujit of the author's trip to the Banngawa River, Centni,! Japan, to witness the 

 capture oi Plecoglossus altivelis by tiainsd Cormorants. 

 J. F. Kemp. Notes on the Ore Deposits and Ore Dressing in southeast Missouri. 

 School of Mines Quarterly, ix, !No. 1, October, 1887, p. 74. 



This paper embraces the author's observations upon the ore deposits, the methods of min- 

 ing, and the mechanical dressing of the ore. The last subject is treated very fully 

 J. F. Kemp. Notes on Lead Smelting in southeast Missouri. 

 School of Mines Quarterly, ix, No. 3, April, 1888, p. 212. 



Gives a description of the various smelting processes followed, together with many valuable 

 analyses. 



