Books Received. 19 



Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, 1890. 

 North-American Fauna, no. 5. Biologcial 

 Reconnoissance of South Central Idaho. 



J. M. Rusk, Esq., Secretary. 



Smithsonian Publications — Report, 1890 ; U.S. 

 National Museum, Proceedings, vol. 13, 189c ; 

 Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge ; 801 

 Experiments in Aerodynamics, 1891. Mis- 

 cellaneous Collections — 764, Correction of Sex- 

 tants ; 741, Index to the Literature of Ther- 

 modynamics; 594 and 708, The Toner Lectures; 

 785, Bibliography of the Chemical Influence of 

 Light ; 663, Index to the Literature of Colum- 

 bium ; 156, Catalogue of Minerals ; Time 

 Reckoning, etc. ; Bureau of Ethnology ; Omaha 

 and Ponka Letters, by Dorsey ; and Catalogue 

 of Prehistoric Works, Thomas, 1891. 



The Smithsonian Institution. 



York. — Report of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, 1891. 



The Society. 



Zurich. — Vierteljahrschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 

 in Zurich. Vol. 34, parts 3-4, 1889 ; vol. 35, 

 parts 1-4, 1890 ; and vol. 36, parts 1-4, 1891. 



The Society. 



From Joseph John Murphy, Esq., Belfast. — Report and 

 Catalogue of Michigan Mining School, 2 parts, 

 1886-91. 



From Thomas Workman, Esq., J.P., Belfast. — Exploration 

 Scientifique de la Tunisie, 13 parts, octavo 

 (Letterpress) ; and 3 parts, folio (plates), 1885-91. 



From R. Lloyd Patterson, Esq., J.P., F.L.S. — Ray Society 

 Monographs and Memoirs, 10 volumes, folio ; 

 and 26 volumes, octavo, 1844-73. 



