574 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1887. 



William H. Holmes. Pottery of the Ancient Pueblos. 



Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, pp. 361-436. 

 William H. Holmes. Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in the Ceramic 



Art. 



Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, pp. 437-465. 



William H. Holmes. A sketch of the Great Serpent Mound. 



Science, VIII, No. 204, Dec. 31, 1886, p. 624-628. 

 William T. Hornaday. " The Last Buffalo Hunt:" A series of eight newspaper 

 letters, published weekly, from March 6, 1887, to April 24, inclusive, in the New 

 York Sun, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Press, Pittsburgh Dispatch, Chicago Inter- 

 Ocean, Detroit Tribune, Indianapolis Journal, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Washing- 

 ton Star, St. Paul Pioneer-Press, Omaha Herald, Portland Oregonian. 

 The sub-titles of the letters were as follows : 



I. The Extermination of the Great American Bison. 

 II. Closing in on the Kemnant. 



III. The Game Begins to Fall. 



IV. The Pursuit of the Pronghorn. 

 V. Bobbed by Kedskins. 



VI. Deer Hunting on the Musselshell. 

 VII. Tho Death of the Twentieth Buffalo. 

 VIII. Buffalo Hunters in a Blizzard. 



An informal narrative of the Smithsonian Exploration for American Bison in 1886, prefaced 

 by a statement of the causes which made it necessary, and the condition of the species at 

 the present day. Its total extinction in a wild state is predicted to take place in less than 

 five years. 



Walter Hough. Thumb Marks. 



Science, VIII, No. 185, Aug. 20, 1886, p. 166. 



Notice of the anthropological investigation of the markings on the skin of the hand, espec- 

 ially of the thumb, with regard to its value as a racial characteristic. Also notes used in 

 China for purposes of identification and by women and illiterates in signing papers. 



Walter Hough. A Bayanzi execution. 



Science, IX, No. 229, June 24, 1887, p. 615, 1 fig. 



Description of the executioner's sword and mode of execution among the Bayanzi of the 

 Congo. The sword figured was presented to the Museum by Lieut. E. H Taunt, TJ. S. Navy. 



Walter Hough. Notes on the Bernadou Corean collection. 



New Dominion, Morgantown, "West Virginia, Aug. 7, 1887. 

 Elizabeth G. Hughes. (See under Eigenmann and Hughes and Jordan and 



Hughes.) 

 David S. Jordan. A record of collections of Fishes made under the auspices of the 

 U. S. Fish Commission and the U. S. National Museum from 1875 to 1885. 

 Report Smithsonian Institution, 1884, n (1886), pp. 169-178. 



This forms a portion of Dr. T. H. Bean's report on the Department of Fishes in the TJ. S. 

 National Museum, 1884. 



David S. Jordan. A preliminary list of the Fishes of the West Indies. 

 Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., IX, 1886 (Jan. 25, 1887), pp. 554-608. 



Eight hundred and seventy-five species, besides a supplementary list of fifty-one species not 

 yet found in, but properly belonging to, the West Indies. 



David S. Jordan. List of Fishes collected at Havana, Cuha, in December, 1883, 

 with notes and descriptions. 



Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., IX (Aug. 14, 1886), pp. 31-55. 



Two hundred and four species collected in the markets. Spanish names in use at Havana 

 are given. Color notes and brief descriptions of many species. Some species are fully de- 

 scribed. Prionotus rubio, Oitharichthys cethalion, nn. spp. ; Scartella Poey, n. g. 



David S. Jordan. Notes on Fishes collected at Beaufort, North Carolina, with a 

 revised list of the species known from that locality. 

 Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., IX, Aug. 14, 1886, pp. 25-30. 



List of one bundred and fourteen species, with the names only, except in regard to Serranut 

 dispilurus (= subligarius) , Gobionellus encceomus, Hypleurochilus geminatus, Etropus microsto- 

 mus. Hippocampus punctulatus. 



