572 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1887. 



William Healey Dall. The Religion of the Uape\ 



Science, vm, No. 197, Nov. 12, 1886, pp. 437, 438. 



Summarizes the religious system ami practices of this South American people. 

 William Healey Dall. The People on the Kongo. 



Science, viil, No. 197, Nov. 12, 1886, pp. 441, 442. 



A summary of Walck's observations. 



William Healey Dall. Isaac Lea^ LL. D. 



Science, vm, No. 202, Dec. 17, 1886, pp. 556-558. 

 Notice of Dr. Lea's life and services, with portrait. 



William Healey Dall. Museums of Ethnology and their classification. 



Science, IX, No. 228, June 17, 1887, p. 587. 



States the problems which confront a curator with a museum of ethnology to classify, and 

 the results which may be attained by adopting either solution. 



William Healey Dall. The Nestor of American Naturalists. 

 Swiss Cross, I, No. 2, Feb. 1887, pp. 43, 44. 

 A biographical notice, for young readers, of the life and works of Dr. Isaac Lea. 



William Healey Dall. Report on the Department of Mollusks in the United States 

 National Museum, 1884. 



Report Smithsonian Institution, 1884 (1886) u, pp. 179-184. 



Frederic P. Dewey. [Report on the] Department of Metallurgy and Economic 

 Geology [in the National Museum, 1884]. 



Report Smithsonian Institution, 1884 (1886) n, pp. 239-276. 



George E. Doering. Analyses of the Cinchona Barks on exhibition in the Materia 

 Medica Section, U. S. National Museum. 



Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Hus., IX, Oct. 30, 1886, pp. 438-442. 



Charles L. Edwards. (See under Jordan and Edwards.) 



Carl H. Eigenmann and Elizabeth G. Hughes. A Review of the North American 

 Species of the Genera Lagodon, Archosargus, and Diplodus. 

 Proc. TJ.S.Nat.Mus., x, May 17, 1887, pp. 65-74. 



Key to the genera Sparus, Lagodon, Archosargus, Diplodus, Stenotomus, and Calamus, and 

 to the species of each genns. Notes on skeletons. 

 (See under Jordan and Eigenmann.) 



W. Otis Emerson. Ornithological Observations in San Diego County. 

 Bulletin Calif. Acad. Science, n, 1887, pp. 419-431. 



Several of the specimens identified by Mr. Ridgway from specimens sent to the National 

 Museum for the purpose. 



Barton W. Evermann. (See under Jordan and Evermann.) 

 Fernando Ferrari-Perez. Catalogue of Animals collected by the Geographical 

 and Exploring Commission of the Republic of Mexico.* 



Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., IX, 1886, pp. 125-199. 



This catalogue includes the following subjects : I. Mammals ; II. Birds ; III. Reptiles. 



J. Walter Fewkes. Report on the Medusae collected by the U. S. Fish Commission 

 steamer Albatross in the region of the Gulf Stream in 1883^'84. 



Report TJ. S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, Part xn, for 1884 (1886), pp. 927-980, pi. 1-10. 

 The following new families, genera, and species are described: 



acraspeda. 

 Periphylla humilis, sp. no v., p. 931. 

 Atolla Bairdii, sp. nov., pL 1-3, p. 936. 

 Verrillii, sp. nov., pL 4-5, p. 939. 

 Nauphantopsis, gen. nov., pi. 6, p. 944. 



Diomedece, sp. nov., pi. 6, p. 9 

 Ephyroides, gen. nov., pi. 7, p. 948. 



rotaformis, sp. nov., pL 7, p. 949 

 narcomedus^e. 

 Balicreasidce, fam. nov., p. 952. 

 Solmaris incisa, sp. nov., pi. 9, p. 954. 



hydroida. 



Polycanna Americana, sp. nov., p. 959. 

 Mesonema Bairdii, sp. nov., p. 962. 



pneumatophorje. 



Rhizophysa uvaria, sp. nov., p. 967. 

 Pterophysa, gen. nov., pi. 10, p. 968. 



grandis, sp. nov., pi. 10, figs. 1-3, p. 969. 

 Angetidce, fam. nov., p. 971. 

 Angelopsis, gen. nev., p. 971. 



globosa, sp. nov., pi. 10, fi, s. 4, 5, p. 972. 



*A great many of the specimens enumerated have become the property of the 

 National Museum. 



