356 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1884. 



Notes on the decrease of lobsters. 



(Trans. Amer. Fish Cult. Assoc, 1884, pp. 201-208; Bull. U. S. Fish Com., 

 iv, 1884, pp. 421-426 ; Forest and Stream, xxiii, No. 5, August 28, 1884, p. 89.) 



A paper read at the thirteenth annual meeting of the American Fish Cul- 

 tural Association,Jield in the U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C, 

 May 13-15, 1884, and based upon the returns of the Fishery Census of 1880. 



The American initiative in methods of deep-sea dredging. 



(Science iv (No. 76, July 18, 1884), pp. 54-57.) 



A brief historical sketch of deep-sea investigations by Americans, with 

 special reference to improvements made in appliances for deep-sea dredging. 



American appliances for deep-sea investigation. 



(Science, iv (No. 81, Aug. 22, 1884), pp. 146-151 ; Science, iv (No. 84, Sept. 

 12, 1884), pp. 225-229 ; Science, iv (No. 90, Oct. 24, 1884), pp. 400-404.) 



Brief descriptions, with illustrations of the deep-sea appliances for dredg- 

 ing now in use by American explorers, and mainly devised or improved by 

 members of the U. S. Fish Commission and U. S. Coast Survey. The paper 

 is divided into the following subjects : The dredges ; trawls and tangles ; wire- 

 dredge rope, sieves, &c. 



CHARLES RAU. 



Extrait des Annales du Mus6e Guimet. Tome x. La Stele de Pa- 

 lenque" * du Mus6e National des Etats-Unis, a Washington, par le 

 Dr. Charles Bau. Tradnit de P Anglais avec Autorisation de FAu- 

 teur. Lyon Imprimerie Pitrat Am6, 4, rue Gen til, 4, 1884. Small 

 quarto, pp. 1-103. 5 plates. 14 figures. 



Les Statuettes contrefaites du Mont Pisgah. Eeview. 



(Revue d'Ethnographie, iii, No. 1, Paris, 1884, p. 89.) 



Circular relative to Contributions of Aboriginal Antiquities to the 

 United States National Museum. 



(Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi, 1883 (1884), pp. 479-483.) 

 Printed in 1883 as Circular 21, U. S. National Museum. 



Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. 509. Prehistoric Fishing 

 in Europe and North America. By Charles Rau. Washington 

 City : Published by the Smithsonian Institution. 1884. 4to. 

 i-xviii j pp. 342. 406 illustrations. 



ROBERT RIDGWAY. 



Note on Zenaidura yucatanensis, Lawr. 



(The Auk, i, Jan., 1884, p. 96.) 



Critical remarks on the type specimen in the collection of the U. S. National 

 Museum. 



*This work was also published in Spanish in 1880 under the title "Tablero del 

 Paleuque en el Museo Nacional de los Estados-Unidos," as No. 3, vol. iii of the "An- 

 ales del Museo Nacional de Mexico." 



