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printed under the authority of the Secretary of the Interior. They form 

 an independent series, which has proved very acceptable to naturalists, 

 as enabling them to obtain prompt information as to the additions to 

 and the components of the National Museum. 



The following is a list of the Bulletins already published: 

 No. 1. Check-list of North American Batrachia and Reptilia; by 

 Edward D. Cope. 1875. 106 pp. 



No. 2. Contributions to the Natural History of Kerguelen Island ; by 

 J. H. Kidder, M. D. ; Part I, Ornithology ; edited by Elliott Coues. 



1875. 61 pp. 



No. 3. Contributions to the Natural History of Kerguelen Island ; Part 

 II, Oology, Botany, Geology, Mammals, Fish, Mollusks, Insects, Crus- 

 taceans, Annelids, Echinoderms, Anthozoa ; by Kidder, Coues, Gray, 

 Endlich, Gill, Dall, Osten-Sacken, Hagen, S. J. Smith, Verrill, and S. F. 

 Clark. 1876. 122 pp. 



No. 4. Birds of Southwestern Mexico ; collected by Francis E. Sumi- 

 chrast. By George N. Lawrence. 1876. 56 pp. 



NO. 5. Catalogue of the Fishes of the Bermudas ; by G. Brown Goode 



1876. 82 pp. 



No. 6. Classification of the collection to illustrate the Animal Resources 

 of the United States; by G. Brown Goode. 1876. 139 pp. 



No. 7. Contributions to the Natural History of the Hawaiian and 

 Fanning Islands, and Lower California ; by Thomas H. Streets, M. D. 



1877. 172 pp. 



No. 8. Index to the names which have been applied to the subdivisions 

 of the class Brachiopoda previous to the year 1877 ; by William H. Dall. 

 1877. 88 pp. 



No. 9. Contributions to North American Ichthyology ; Part I ; Review 

 of Rafinesque's Memoirs on North American Fishes ; by David S. Jordan. 

 1877. 53 pp. 



No. 10. Contributions to North American Ichthyology; Part II; Cot- 

 tidse, Etheostomatidse, Percidse, Centrarchidse, Aphododeridse, Doryso- 

 matidse, Cyprinidse, Siluridse. By D. S. Jordan. 1878. 120 pp., with 

 45 plates. 



No. 11. Not yet published. 



No. 12. Contributions to North American Ichthyology; Part III; by 

 D. S. Jordan and A. W. Brayton. 1878. 237 pp. 



Of the above, those published during the past year are the Bulletins 

 numbered 10 and 12. The former comprises the second part of Prof. 

 David S. Jordan's Contributions to North American Ichthyology, and 

 includes notes on Cottidse, Etheostomatidse, Percidse, Centrarchidse, 

 Aphododeridse, Dorysomatidse, and Cyprinidse, with revisions of the 

 genera and descriptions of new or little known species ; and Synopsis 

 of the Siluridse of the fresh waters of North America, with a bibliogra- 

 phy of all the genera and species. It forms an octavo pamphlet of 120 

 pages, with 45 plates. 

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