BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE U. R. NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 709 



R. W. Shufeldt. On aquatic habits of certain land tortoise^. 



Nature (Loudon), XL, No. 1044, October 31, 1889, p. 644. 

 R. W. Shufeldt. Remarks upon extinct mammals of the United States. 



Beprinted from The American Field (Chicago), xxxu, Nos. 17-22, 18S9. Two hundred and 

 fifty copies issued, being the authors edition, in paper covers, under above title, with im- 

 proved figures and repagination ; pp. 1-38. 

 The author was materially assisted by studies of material in the collections of the TJ. S. 

 National Museum, especially in the use of Steller's sea-cow and skulls, and other speci- 

 mens in the osteological department. 

 R. W. Shufeldt. Progress in avian anatomy for the years 1883-1889. 



Jour. Gomp. Med. and Yet. Arch. (Philadelphia), XI, No. 1, January, 1890, pp. 22-2G. 

 The work done in osteology of birds by the Department of Comparative Anatomy of the U. S. 

 National Museum herein fully noticed. 

 R. W. Shufeldt. Hints to explorers and naturalists in the field about the prepara- 

 tion, care, and transportation of vertebrate skeletons in the rough. 

 Jour. Comp. Med. and Yet. Arch. (Philadelphia), XI, No. 2, February, 1890, pp. 98-103. 

 R. W. Shufeldt. The use to which the claws on the pollices of certain young birds 

 are put. (Letter to editor.) 



Ibis (London), n, No. 5, Ser. 6, January, 1890, pp. 128, 129. 

 R. W. Shufeldt. On the position of Chamwa in the system. 



Journal of Morphology (Boston), III, No. 3, December, 1889, pp. 475-502, 8 figures. 

 R. W. Shufeldt. Contributions to the comparative osteology of Arctic and sub- 

 arctic water-birds. Pt. vi. 



Journal of Anatomy (London), xxiv, January, 1890, pp. 169-187. PI. xi, xu, and numerous 

 wood cuts in the text. 

 Charles Torrey Simpson. On a singular case of imitation in Oslrea Yirginica. 

 The Nautilus, in, No. 3, July, 1889, pp. 26, 27. 



Calls attention to the reproduction on its own shell by an oyster attached to Oerithium atratum, 

 of tho color markings as well as the sculpture of the Cerithium to which it adhered. 

 Charles Torrey Simpson. What is a species? 



The Nautilus, ill, No. 7, November, 1889, pp. 78-80 ; No. 8, December, 1889, pp. 88-90. 

 Discussion of the variability of molluscan forms and their systematic value. 

 Charles Torrey Simpson. Notes on some Indian Territory land and fresh-water 

 shells. 



Proe. TT. S. Nat. Mus., XI, September 3, 1888 (1889), pp. 449-454. 

 John B. Smith. Contribution toward a monograph of the insects of the Lepidop- 

 terous Family Noctuida? of Temperate North America. — Revision of the species of 

 the genus Agrolis. 



Bull. 38, V. S. Nat. Mus., 1889, 8vo., pp. 1-237. PI. i-v. 

 John B. Smith. Notes on the species of Lachvoaterna of Temperate North America, 

 with descriptions of new species. 



Proc. V. 8. Nat. Mus., xi, September 3, 1888 (1889), pp. 481-525. PI. xlviii-i.x. 

 Sanderson Smith. Lists of the dredging stations of the U. S. Fish Commission, the 

 U. S. Coast Survey, aud the British steamer Challenger, in North American waters, 

 from 18G7 to 1887, together with those of the principal European Government 

 expeditions in the Atlantic aud Arctic Oceans. 



Annual Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, Pt. XIV, 1886 (1889), pp. 873-1017. 



Three charts. 

 These lists describo the depth of water, character of the bottom, temperature, etc., at each 

 dredging station. 

 Robert E. C. Stearns. A mammoth land snail. 

 The Nautilus, III, No. 3, July, 1890, pp. 29, 30. 



Comments on the alleged discovery of a Bulimus, 19 inches long. 

 Robert E. C. Stearns. On the distribution of Planorbis bicarinatus. 



West American Scientist, September, 1889. 

 Robert E. C. Stearns. Notes on Physa triiicea Lea, its relations, etc. 

 The Nautilus, III, No. 5, September, 1889, pp. 49-51. 



Robert E. C. Stearns. Critiques and comments. 



The Nautihis, in, No. 6, October, 1889, pp. 64-66. 



Notes on shells and shell literature. 

 Robert E. C. Stearns. Stenotrema hirsuta Say, on the West Coast. 



The Nautihis, ill, No. 7, November, 1889, pp. 81, 82. 



