78 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Appreciations of the work of the Smithsonian Institution: 

 I. Physics, by Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, president of the Worcester Poly- 

 technic Institute. 

 II. Mathematics, by Robert Simpson WoodAvard, professor of mechanics, Colum- 

 bia University, New Yorli City. 



III. Astronomy, by Edward S. Holden, director of the Lick Observatory, Mount 



Hamilton, Cal. 



IV. Chemistry, by Marcus Benjamin. 



V. Geology and Mineralogy, by William North Rice, professor of geology, Wes- 



leyan University, Middletown, Conn. 

 VI. Meteorology, by Marcus Benjamin. 



VII. Paleontology, by Edward Drinker Cope, professor of zoology and compaia- 

 tive anatomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and editor of the 

 American Naturalist. 

 VIII. Botany, by William Gilson Farlow, professor of cryptogamic botany. Har- 

 vard University, Cambridge, Mass. 

 IX. Zoology, by Theodore Gill, professor of zoology, Columbian University, 



Washington. 

 X. Anthropology, by Jesse Walter Fewkes, editor of the Journal of American 



Ethnology and Archieology. 

 XI. Geography, by Gardiner Greene Hubbard, president of the National Geo- 

 graphic Society, Washington. 

 XII. Bibliogr.iphy, by Henry Carrington Bolton, lecturer on the history of chem- 

 istry, and professor of bibliography, Columbian University. 



XIII. The Cooperation of the Smithsonian Institution with other Institutions of 



Learning, by Daniel Coit Gilman, president of Johns Hopkins University, 

 Baltimore, Md. 



XIV. The Influence of the Smithsonian Institution upon the Development of Libra- 



ries, the Organization of the Work of Societies, and the Publication of Sci- 

 entilic Literature in the United States, by John Shaw Billings, director of 

 the New York Public Library. 

 XV. Relation between the Smithsonian Institntion and the Library of Congress, 

 by Ainsworth Rand Spofi'ord, Librarian of Congress. 

 Appendix. 



Principal Events in the History of the Institution, compiled by William Jones 

 Rhees. 

 Index. 



V. NATIONAL MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS. 



The publications by the National Museum are issued directly by the Museum and 

 will be described in detail in the Museum volume of the Smithsonian report. It 

 seems proper, however, to here mention the works issued during the year: 



Report on the National Museum for 1894, included under Smithsonian annual 

 reports. 



Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. XVIII. Published under 

 the direction of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington : Government Printing 

 Office, 1896. 8°, xiv, 819 pp., with text figures and 35 full-page plates. This volume 

 contains 68 papers on natural history subjects, describing many families, genera, and 

 species new to science. 



Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. XIX. About twenty 

 papers belonging to this volume were issued during the year. 



Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol. XX. Advance sheets of 

 three papers for this volume appeared during the year. 



Bulletin of the United States National Museum, No. 47. The Fishes of North and 

 Middle America. A descriptive catalogue of the si^ecies of lish-like vertebrates 

 found in the waters of North America north of the Isthmus of Panama. By David 



