APPENDIX TO SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



Appendix I. 



PUBLICATIONS OF THE YEAR. 



SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE. 



A memoir presented by Prof. Alpheus Hyatt, of Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology on the "Genesis of the Arietidse," and recommended by Messrs. Alexander 

 Agassiz, Charles A.White, and William H. Dall, was accepted for publication in the 

 series of Contributions to Knowledge, in February last (1889). In order tbat the print- 

 *ng of the memoir might be under the convenient revision of the author, the work was 

 placed in the hands of John Wilson & Son, of Cambridge, Mass. The printing of the 

 treatise is well advanced, and it will probably be completed and distributed during 

 the present year. It will form a volume of about 230 quarto pages, illustrated by 35 

 figures and 14 plates. 



Two other publications of the year in the quarto size should be mentioned here, al- 

 though not intended to be included in the collected volumes of the Contributions. 

 No. 671 of the Smithsonian list is " Natural History Illustrations prepared under the 

 direction of Louis Agassiz, 1849. The Anatomy of Astrangia Danae. Six litho- 

 graphs from drawings by A. Sonrel. Explanation of the plates by J. Walter 

 Fewkes." This issue represents merely a fragment of a memoir undertaken forty 

 years ago by the eminent naturalist, Louis Agassiz, on material collected by him 

 during his first dredging excursion in one of the steamers of the U. S. Coast Survey. 

 This memoir, postponed by other occupations, was never completed, and even the 

 original notes are no longer to be found. But the excellence of the drawings made 

 under his direction from living specimens seems to warrant their publication, even 

 at this late day. The text descriptive of the six plates, by Mr. Fewkes, occupies 20 

 quarto pages. 



672. "Natural History Illustrations prepared under the direction of Louis Agassiz 

 and Spencer F. Baird, 1849. Six lithographs from drawings by A. Sonrel. Expla- 

 nation of the plates by David Starr Jordan." This, like the preceding, represents 

 merely a fragment of a memoir projected by the joint labors of the two distinguished 

 ichthyologists, and in like manuer laid aside under the pressure of more immediate 

 duties. The text explanatory of the six plates is comprised in 12 quarto pages. 

 Were these two brochures more recent and more extended they would well deserve a 

 place in the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. 



SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS. 



Taking the various publications for the past year belonging to this series in the 

 order in which they stand in the Smithsonian list, the first is : 



No. 663. " Index to the Literature of Columbium, from 1801 to 1887." By Frank W. 

 Traphagen. This is one of the special bibliographies of chemical literature pub- 

 lished by the Institution on the reoommendation of the committee appointed by the 



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