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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 



Charles D. Walcott. A review of the report of the State geologist of New York 

 for the year 1888. 



Amer. Jour. Sci., ser. 3, xxxix, 1890, pp. 155, 156. 



A short review of the contents of the report with special reference to the presence of the 

 Hercynian fauna or its representative in America, and the classification of the Upper 

 Silurian arid Devonian rocks as influenced by the presence of this fauna. 

 Charles D. Walcott. Study of a line of displacement in the Grand Cafiou of the 

 Colorado, in northern Arizona. 



Bull. Geol. Soc. America, 1, 1889, pp. 49-64. Twelve figures. 



A description of an ancient pre-Cambrian fault, upon which a movement took place in later 

 Tertiary times, reversing the movement of pre-Cambrian time. It is accompanied by 

 descriptive details and numerous illustrations. 

 Charles D. Walcott. The value of the term "Hudson River Group" in geologic 

 nomenclature. 



Bull. Geol. Soc. America, 1, 1890, pp. 335-355. 



A brief historical notice and a description of the rocks referred to the Hudson River group 

 by the geologists in New York, Ohio, and tha Mississippi Valley. The conclusion reached 

 is that the term "Hudson " has a definite value in geologic nomenclature, and should be 

 used in a generic sense as expressed in the following tabulation: 



Terrane. 



Formations. 



Hudson <j 



Hudson River shales and grits. Utica shale. 



Frankfort shale. 



Lorraine shale and sandstone. 



Salmon River sandstone and 3hale. 



Cincinnati shale and limestone. 



Nashville shale. 



Maquoketa shale. 



Charles D. Walcott. Report on the Department of Invertebrate Fossils (Paleozoic) 

 in the U. S. National Museum, 1886. 



Report of the Smithsonian Institution, II, 1886 (1889), pp. 215-227. 

 Charles D. Walcott. Report on the Department of Invertebrate Fossils (Paleozoic) 

 in the U. S. National Museum, 1887. 



Report of the Smithsonian Institution (U. S. National Museum), 1887 (1889), pp. 139-141. 

 Lester F. Ward.* Why is water considered ghost-proof? 

 Science, v, January 2, 1885, p. 2. 



The suggestion is made that the wide-spread belief among savages that "water is impassable 

 to spirits " may be due to the obstacles it presents to dogs in pursuing their prey, tracking 

 their masters, etc. 

 Lester F. Ward. A glance at the history of our knowledge of fossil plants. 

 Science, V, January 30, 1885, pp. 93-95. 



Brief review of the progress of Paleobotany from the earliest times. 

 Lester F. Ward. Fontaine's older Mesozoic flora of Virginia. 

 Science, v, April 3, 1885, pp. 280, 281. 

 Review of that work. 

 Lester F. Ward. Lesquereux's Cretaceous and Tertiary flora. 



Science, V, April 24, 1885, pp. 348, 349. 

 Review of that work. 

 Lester F. Ward. Premature appearance of the periodical cicada. 



Science, V, June 12, 1885. p. 476. 



Letter to Science recording the hearing of the note of the periodical cicada on October 12, 

 1884, with an attempt to account for the phenomenon. 

 Lester F. Ward. The ginkgo-tree. 



Science, v, June 19, 1885, pp. 495-497. 



An account of the discovery of the flowering for the first time of two ginkgo-trees in the 

 TJ. S. Botanic Garden at "Washington, followed by remarks on the character and distribution 

 of this tree and its paleontological history. Two of the illustrations are of specimens 

 collected by the writer. 



* Mr. Ward's Bibliography from January, 1885, to June, 1886, was omitted from the reports of the 

 National Museum. It is supplied here in connection with that for the year ending June 30, 1890. 



