732 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. 



Fkedekick W. True. Dcsc:ri[)tii>ii oTu. now species of Bat, VespcrtiUo h iif/icr tin, [rom 

 P 11 get Sound. 



Proe. TJ. S. Nat. Mns., x, December 17, 1880, pp. 0,7. 

 Frederick W. True. Some Distmctive Ciani.il Characters of the Canada Lynx. 



Proc. V. S. Nat. Mas., X, 1887, pp. 8, 9. 

 Frederick W. True. A note on Vesperugo liesperus (Allen). 



Proc. TT. S. Nat. Mus., x, November 21, 1887, p. 515. 

 Frederick W. True. The Pouud-Net Fisheries of the Atlantic States. 



The Fisheries and, Fishery Industries of the United States, Section v, vol. i, 1887, pp. 595-609. 

 Four plates. 

 Frederick VV. True. The Alewife Fishery of Cape Cod. 



The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, Section v, vol. i, 1887, pp. 070-673. 

 Frederick W. True. The Turtle and Terrapin Fisheries. 



The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States. Section v, vol. ii. 1887, pp. 493-.503. 

 One plate. 

 (See also under Ludwig Kumlien.) 

 LuciEN M. TuR>fER. Forty-ninth Congress, first session, Senate, Mis. Doc. No. 1.55. 

 Contributions | to the | Natural History of Alaska. | — | Results of investiga- 

 tions made chiefly in the Yukon | District and the Aleutian Islands; conducted | 

 under the auspices of the Signal Service, | United States Army, extending from | 

 May, 1874, to August, 1881. | Prepared under the direction of Brig, and Bvt. Maj. 

 Gen. W. B. Hazeu, Chief Signal OfiQcer of the Army. By L. M. Turner. | — | 

 No. II. Arctic Series of Publications issued in connection with the Signal 

 Service, U. S. Army. With 26 plates. | — | Washington : | Government Printing 

 Office. I 1886. 



pp. 226, 4to. Twenty-six plates. 



The Birds, forming Part v, occupy pp. 115-184 ; and pp. 184-196 are devoted to a special 

 "List of the Birds of Alaska." The ornithological portion of the report is illustrated by ten 

 colored plates by R. and J. L. Ridgway, representing thirteen species, from specimens in the 

 U. S. National Museum. The collections upon -which this report is based were made during 

 the years 1874 to 1881 by the author for the Museum, while in Alaska as an observer in tbe TJ. 

 S. Signal Service. Acknowledgments are made to Messrs. R. Ridgway and L. Stejneger for 

 assistance during tbe preparation of the ornithological part of the report. Although printed 

 in 1886, the report was not published rrntil 1888. 

 George Vasey. Contributions to the Natural History of the Commander Islands. 

 Proe. 77. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, p. 153. 



Description of Alopecurus stejnegeri, a new species of grass from the Commander Islands. 

 Charles D. Walcott. Report on the Departmeutof Invertebrate Fossils (Paleozoic) 

 in the U. S. National Museum, 1885. 



Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885 (1886), Part n, pp. 129-132. 

 Charles D. Walcott. Note on the Genus Archceocyathus of Billings. 

 Ainer. Jour. Sci., xxxiv, August 27, 1887, pp. 145, 146. 

 A review of the history, description and meaning of this genus. 

 Charles D. Walcott. Fauna of the "Upper Taconic " of Emmons, in Washington 

 County, New York. 



Amer. Jour. Sci., xxxiv, September, 1887, pp. 187-199. Plate 1. 



A dedcriptiim of fossils obtained in the Upper Taconic rocks of Emmons. Since the publica- 

 tion of this paper, the name "Taconic" has been dropped entirely by the author in describing 

 the Lower Cambrian rocks. 

 Charles D. Walcott. Section of Lower Silurian (Ordovician) and Cambrian Strata 

 in Central New York, as shown by a deep well near Utica. 

 Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci.. xxxvi, December, 1887, p. 212. 



A description of the strata penetrated by the well. The entire depth of the well was 2,250 

 feet. It passed through 90 feet of rooks referred to the Hudson River group; 710 feet of rocks 

 referred to tbe Utica shale; 350 feet to the Trenton limestone; unidentified, 180 feet: 260 feet 

 to the Calciferous sand-rock; 410 feet to the Potsdam and pre-Potsdam sand-rock; lOO feet to 

 the Archean. 

 Chaules D. Walcott. Discovery of Fossils in the Lower Taconic of Emmons. 

 Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci., xxxvi, December, 1887, p. 213. 



Report of finding fossils in granular quartzite near Bennington, Vermont, and the discovery 

 of fossils in the crystaline limestone near Pownal, Vermont. The quartzite is referred to the 

 Lower Cambrian, and the limestone, overlying the schists, to the Lower Silurian group. 



