346 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1884. 



PART II.— PAPERS BY OFFICERS OF THE MUSEUM. 



WILBUR OLIN ATWATER. 



The chemical composition and nutritive value of our American food 

 fishes and invertebrates. 



(Transactions American Fish Cultural Association, 1884, pp. 171-194.) 



Les relations entre les plantes et l'azote de leur nourriture. 



(Annales de chimie et de physique, [6] ii, pp. 322-331.) 



The chemistry of the feeding of plants. 



(Report of the New Jersey Board of Agriculture, 1883-1884, pp. 55-105.) 

 This lecture was delivered before the New Jersey Board of Agriculture. 



Tables illustrative of the nutritive value of fish. 



(Bull. U. S. Fish Com., iv, 1884, pp. 203-205.) 



Report of analysis of a sample of fish guano made from salmon offal, 

 by Mr. Joseph Sprat t, of Victoria, British Columbia. 



(Bull. U. S. Fish Cora., iv, 1884, p. 238.) 



SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD, 



On the specimens received by the Smithsonian Institution from the 

 United States Life- Saving Service. 



(Bull. U. S. Fish Com., iv, 1884, pp. 177-178.) 

 SPENCER F. BAIRD, T. M. BREWER AND R. RIDGWAY. 



Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 

 Vol. xii. The Water Birds of North America, by S. F. Baird, T. 

 M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway. Issued in continuation of the publi- 

 cations of the Geological Survey of California. J. D. Whitney, 

 State Geologist, Volume I, Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. 

 1884. Eoyal 8vo. pll. 3. pp. vii-xi, 1-537, 211 wood-cuts. 



Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 



Vol. xiii. The Water Birds of North America, by S. F. Baird, T. M. 

 Brewer, and R. Ridgway. Issued in continuation of the Publi- 

 cations of the Geological Survey of California. J. D. W T hitney, 

 State Geologist. Volume ii. Boston. Little, Brown, and Com- 

 pany. 1884. Royal 8vo. pll. 3. pp. 1-552. 288 wood-cuts. 



Those two volumes comprise a complete mouograph of the Water Birds of 

 North America, based almost wholly upon the collections of the U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum. The technical portion was prepared by Professor Baird and 

 Mr. Ridgway, the biographies or life-histories by Dr. Brewer (the authors 

 having no financial iuterest in its publication). The work is intended as a 

 continuation of "A History of North American Birds ".(3 vols., embracing 

 the land birds) by the same authors and publishers, issued in 1874, 



