REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 71 



the exchanges for the year, and a list of additions to the number of foreign corre- 

 spondents; followed by the usual "General Appendix," in which are given various 

 anthropological papers, by Otis T. Mason, R. W. Shufeldt, Paul Beck with, Henry 

 T. Allen, C. Willoughby, Myron Eells, L. G. Yates, Nicholas Leon, William H. 

 Holmes, and W. M. Thompson; also papers by Robert E. C. Stearns, Sanford Flem- 

 ing, List of Astronomical Observatories, by George H. Boehmer, and Catalogue of 

 Smithsonian Publications, by William J. Rhees — forming an octavo volume of xviii 

 + 878 pages, illustrated by 31 figures in the text and 37 plates. 



677. Annual Rex»ort of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for the 

 year ending June 30, 1886, Part n. This part relates to the U. S. National Museum 

 (under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution), showing its progress and condi- 

 tion and containing: (1) Report of the Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, G. Brown Goode, upon the condition and progress of the Museum for the 

 year; (2) reports of the curators of the various departments of the Museum; (3) 

 reports upon special collections in the Museum, and papers illustrative of the col- 

 lections : the meteorite collection, by F. W. Clarke ; the gem collection, by George F. 

 Kuntz; the collection of building and ornamental stones, by George P. Merrill ; the 

 collection of textiles, fibers, aud fabrics, by Romyn Hitchcock ; preparation of mi- 

 croscopical mounts of vegetable textile fibers, by the same; and how to collect mam- 

 mal skins for purposes of study and mounting, by William T. Hornaday ; (4) Bibliog- 

 raphy of the National Museum; and (5) list of accessions to the collections; followed 

 by a general index. The whole forms an octavo volume of xi + 842 pages, illus- 

 trated by 23 figures and 20 plates. 



PUBLICATIONS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



669. Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum, Vol. x, for 1837. This volume contains 

 descriptive papers by Tarleton H. Bean, Charles W. Beckham, C. E. Bendire, Charles 

 H. Bollmann, Ellsworth R. Call, E. D. Cope, Carl H. Eigenmann, Charles H. Gilbert, 

 Theodore Gill, O. P. Hay, Elizabeth G. Hughes, David S. Jordan, F. H. Knowlton, S. 

 R. Koelher, George N. Lawrence, Leo Lesquereux, W. Lilljeborg, Edwin Linton, Fred- 

 erick A. Lucas, Jerome McNeill, Richard Rathbun, Robert Ridgway, R. W. Shufeldt, 

 John B. Smith, Leonhard Stejneger, Charles H. Townsend, Frederick W. True, George 

 Vasey, and Jose" C. Zeledon. With a general index, this forms an octavo volume of 

 viii + 771 pages, illustrated by 39 plates. 



674. Bulletin of the U. S. National Museum, No. 33. Catalogue of Minerals and 

 their Synonyms, alphabetically arranged for the use of museums. By T. Egleston. 

 Octavo, 198 pages. 



PUBLICATIONS OP THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. 



670. Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. By J. W. Powell, Director. This contains the introductory re- 

 port of the Director, 37 pages, with accompanying papers, as follows : Burial mounds 

 of the northern sections of the United States, by Cyrus Thomas ; the Cherokee Nation 

 of Indians, by Charles C. Royce ; the mountain chant, a Navajo ceremony, by Wash- 

 ington Matthews ; the Seminole Indians of Florida, by Clay MacCauley ; the relig- 

 ious life of the Zufii child, by Mrs. Tilly E. Stevenson.- The work forms a royal 

 octavo volume of liii + 564 pages, including a general index, and is illustrated 



77 figures in the text and 23 plates, 8 of which are chromo-lithographs. 



