CONTENTS. XI 



Pagre 



Materia roedica 175 



Prehistoric anthropology 179 



Mammals 189 



Birds 195 



Birds' eggs 199 



Reptiles and batrachians 201 



Fishes 205 



Mollusks 211 



Insects 219 



Marine invertebrates 223 



Comparative anatomy 231 



Invertebrate fossils: 



Paleozoic 233 



Mesozoic 235 



Botany 237 



Minerals 241 



Geology 243 



Section III. — Papers Describing and Illustrating the Collections in 

 the U. S. National Museum. 



1. The Hummiug Birds. By Robert Ridgway 253 



2. White-line Engraving for Relief-Printiug in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth 



Centuries. (Dotted prints, gravures en man i ere erib!e"e, Schrotblatter. ) 



By S. R. Koehler 385 



3. The Methods of Fire-making. By Walter Hough 395 



4. The Ulu, or Woman's Knife, of the Eskimo. By Otis T. Masou 411 



5. The Ancient Pit-dwellers of Yezo, Japan. By Romyn Hitchcock 417 



6. The Aiuos of Yezo, Japan. By Romyn Hitchcock 429 



7. Hand-book for the Department of Geology in the U. S. National Museum. 



Part I.— Geognosy. — The Materials of the Earth's Crust. By George P. 



Merrill 503 



8. The Catlin Collection of Indian paintings. By Dr. Washington Matthews, 



U.S.A... 593 



9. The Log of the Savannah. By J. Elfreth Watkins 611 



10. Anthropology at the Paris Exposition in 1889. By Thomas Wilson 641 



Section IV. — Bibliography op the U. S. National Museum during the fis- 

 cal year ending June 30, 1890. 



I. Publications of the Museum 68!$ 



11. Papers by officers of the National Museum and other investigators whose 



writings are based directly or indirectly on museum material G i r j 



Section V. — List of Accessions to the U. S. National Museum during the 

 year ending June 30, 1890. 



List of accessions 719 



Index by locality 769 



Index by departments in the National Museum 779 



General index ..- 789 



