682 REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1886. 



F. Dc Cane Godman and O. Salvin. Biologia Centr all- Americana, Ares. Vol. i, 



pp. 345-392. 



Three parts relating to ornithology were issued (lining the year 1885-'86, treating of* a part 

 of the Fringillidco. Ileferences to Museum specimens are very frequent throughout this great 

 and important work, which is heing issued in parts, and is uot yet completed. 



G. Brown Goode. A brief biography of the Halibut, 



American Naturalist, xjx, No. 10, Oct. 1885, pp. 953-969. Also as a separate 



G. Brown Goode. The Beginnings | of | Natural History | in | America. | — | An 

 address delivered at the Sixth Anniversary meeting of the Biological Society | of 

 Washington. | — | By | G. Brown Goode, | President of the Society. | — | From the 

 proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Volume ill, 1884-1880. | — | 

 Washington : | Printed for the Society. | 18^6. 

 8vo. pp. 35-105. 



A discussion of the work of the earliest naturalists and explorers, and of the origin of scien 

 tiiic institutions in America. , 



G. Brown Goode. The care of pamphlets. 



Science, vi, Oct. 16, 1885, No. 141, p. 337. Abstract in Bull. Phil. Soc, 1885, p. 29. 



G.Brown Goode and Tarleton H. Bean. Description of Leptophidium cervinum 



and L. marmoratum, new tishes from deep water off the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. 

 Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., vin, Sept, 17, 1885, pp. 422-424. 

 G. Brown Goode and Tarleton II. Bean. Descriptions of new tishes obtained by 

 the U. S. Fish Commission, mainly from deep water off the Atlantic and Gulf 

 coasts. 



Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., vin, Oct. 19 and 20, 1885, p. 589. 



Aphoristia diomrdeana, A.pitsilla, Hemirhombus fimbriatux, Citharichthys ventralis, Etropus 

 rimosus, Macrarus caribbceus, M.occa, Co7-ypJi.ee noides sulcatum, Malacocephalus occidentals, 

 Bathygadus cavernosas, B. maemps, B. lonaifdis, nn. as.; NeobythUr.it, Porogadus, un.gg. ; Neo- 

 bythites gilli, Porogadus miles, nu. ss. ; Bathyonus, nom. g. n. ; Balhyonus catena, B. pecloralis, 

 nn. ss. 



Asa Gray. Plants from near Point Barrow. 



Report of the expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska (1882-'83), 1 18851 pp. 191-192. 

 See under John Murdoch. (Part iv, Natural History.) 



F. H. H. Gtjillemard. Report on the Collections of Birds made during the voyage of 

 the yacht Marcheaa. I. A provisional list of the birds inhabiting the Sain Archi- 

 pelago. 



Proc. Zool. Soc. of London, 1885, pp. 247-275. 



A specimen of Carpophaga pickeringi was compared with the type in the National Museum 

 at the author's request, and the result of Mr. Ilidgway's comparison is given on page 270. 



V. Havard. Report on the Flora of Western and Southern Texas. 



Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. vm, Sept. 23, 28, and 30, 1885, pp. 449-533. 



In the first part of this report a general description of the vegetation of western and south- 

 ern Texas is given, the second part heing made up of economic notes on the plants known to 

 have useful or baneful properties or to be of value to agriculture or industry. The specimens 

 treated of in this report have been presented to the National Museum. 



O. P. Hay. Notes on a collection from Florida, with descriptions of new or little- 

 known species. 



Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., VIII, Sept. 30, 1885, p. 552. 

 Etheostoma davisoni, Zygonectes auro gut.taus, nn. s. 



II. W. Henshaw. — The Gulls of the Californian Coast. 

 The Auk, II, July, 1885, pp. 231, 232. 



Romyn Hitchcock [Editor]. The American Monthly Microscopical Journal. 



Current numbers, VI. July, 1885, to vn, June, 1886 (inch), Nos. 67-78. 



A iournal devoted to the interests of practical microscopists, containing information con 

 cerning methods of work, formulae, notes, etc., with contributed articles and reviews. 

 Romyn Hitchcock. Provisional Key to the Classification of Algos of Fresh Water. 



The Am. Monthly Micr. Joum., VI, July, 1885, pp. 129-130; Sept., 188.'), pp. 170-174; Dec, 18S5, 

 pp. 231-233; vil, Fob., 1880, pp. 30-31; Mar., 1880, pp. 50-53 ; May, 1886, pp. 95-97. 

 A series of continued articles. 



