88 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



A Revision of the Tropical African Diplopoda of the Family Strongylosomatidse, 

 by O. F. Cook, pp. 695-708. 



American Leaf-Hoppers of the Subfamily Typhlocybime, by Clarence P. Gillette, 

 pp. 709-773. 



A Revision of the Deep-Water Mollusca of the Atlantic Coast of North America, 

 with Descriptions of New Genera and Species, Part I, Bivalvia, by Addison E. Verrill 

 and Katherine J. Bush, pp. 775-901, 27 plates. 



The Museum also published Part L of Bulletin 39, containing instructions for the 

 collection of scale insects, by Prof. T. D. A. Cockerel], and Circular 48, relating to the 

 collection and preservation of the bones and teeth of the mastodon and mammoth. 



VII. BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY REPORTS. 



No completed volumes of the Reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology were 

 issued during the year. The seventeenth report was sent to the Public Printer on 

 July 6, 1897, and typesetting was practically completed during the fiscal year. 

 This report contains memoirs on The Seri Indians, Calendar History of the 

 Kiowa Indians, Navaho House, and Archaeological Expedition in Arizona in 1895. 



The eighteenth report was sent to the Public Printer on March 11, 1898, and con- 

 tains papers on The Eskimo About Bering Strait, and Indian Land Cessions in the 

 United States. 



VIII. ANNUAL REPORTS OP THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. 



Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the year 1896, AVash- 

 ington, Government Printing Office, 1897. 8°, 2 vols. Vol. I, pp. 1313; Vol. II, 

 pp. 442. 



The first volume contains the proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting, Decem- 

 ber 29-31, 1896, by Herbert B. Adams, Secretary; report of the Treasurer, list of 

 Committees, necrology, and the following papers : Inaugural Address of Richard S. 

 Storrs, President of the Association, on Contributions made to our National 

 Development by Plain Men; Leopold von Ranke, by E. G. Bourne; The Journals 

 and Papers of the Continental Congress, by Herbert Friedenwald ; The Anti-rent 

 Episode in the State of New York, by David Murray; A Know-Nothing Legislature, 

 by G. H. Haynes; Peale's Original Whole-Length Portrait of Washington, by Charles 

 Henry Hart; Political Science and History, by J. W. Burgess; The Use of History 

 made by the Framers of the Constitution, by E. G. Bourne; Schemes for Episcopal 

 Control in the Colonies, by Arthur Lyon Cross ; The Teaching of History, by Her- 

 bert B. Adams ; The Teaching of European History in the College, by James Harvey 

 Robinson ; The West as a Field for Historical Study, by Frederick J. Turner ; A Plea 

 for the Study of Votes in Congress, by Orin Grant Libby ; The Northern Lake Fron- 

 tier during the Civil War, by J. M. Callahan; Langdon Cheves and the United 

 States Bank, by Louisa P. Haskell ; The Influence of the American Revolution on 

 England's Government of her Colonies, by George B. Adams; The Government of 

 Federal Territories in Europe, by Edmund C. Burnett; The Value of Map3 in Bound- 

 ary Disputes, by P. Lee Phillips ; Report of the Historical Manuscripts Commis- 

 sion of the American Historical Association, containing Guides to Archives, Letters 

 of Phineas Bond, Letters to the Duke de Mirepoix, Letters of Stephen Higginson, 

 Diary of Edward Hooker, and Clark-Genet Correspondence ; Public Documents of 

 Early Congresses, by Gen. A. W. Greely; List of Books Relating to America in the 

 Register of the London Company of Stationers from 1562 to 1638, by P. Lee Phillips; 

 An Essay toward a Bibliography of Leopold von Ranke, by William Price. 



The second volume is an exhaustive work on the Proposed Amendments to the 

 Constitution of the United States during the Frst Century of its Existence, by 

 Herman V. Ames. 



The report of the Association for the year 1897 was transmitted to the Public 

 Printer on June 9, 1898, and was partly in type before the fiscal year ended. This 



