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and Oregon ; explorations of the Red River, the Great Salt Lake, 
the Upper Missouri and Yellowstone, and the survey of the Indian 
Territory; naval expeditions to Chile, Japan (Perry), the China 
seas and Bering’s Strait, La Plata and its tributaries (Page), the 
west coast of Greenland and Smith’s Sound (Kane). Later, under 
Baird, the institution codperated with the marine explorations of the 
Fish Commission. Among private explorations aided were those of 
the American Antiquarian Society of Worcester, Mass., among Ohio 
mounds, 1851 ; of Samuels in California, 1855; of Kennicott in 
British America and Alaska; of Dall in Alaska; of Scott in Yuca- 
tan; of Berendt in British Honduras, 1865; of Orton in northern 
South America, 1867; of Simson in Utah, 1859; of Stejneger at 
the Commander Islands, 1882; of Jouy in Corea, 1883 ; of Rockhill 
in Mongolia and Thibet, 1888-89, 1891-92. Such explorations 
have affected not only science, but commerce. 
Finally, a few words may be said about the work done in the 
publication of zoological and botanical investigations alone. Among 
zoological works we notice Scudder’s Nomenclator Zoologicus ; numer- 
ous works on zoogeography; descriptive, monographic, and faunistic 
works, issued either as separate “ Contributions” or in the Proceed- 
ings of the U. S. National Museum ; and a few physiological memoirs. 
To these may be added valuable reports on Zhe Progress of 
Zoology, 1879-86, and Instructions for Collectors. Among botanical 
works are the results of Wright’s explorations in Texas; several 
expensive monographs by Torrey and by Gray, especially Gray’s 
Synoptical Flora of North America, Harvey’s Marine Alga of the 
United States, Wood’s Fresh-Water Alga, and Leidy’s Fauna and 
Flora within Living Animals, 
This brief review of some of the oles of the history which lies 
before us inadequately indicates its scope and value. The volume 
was planned and partly carried to consummation by the late Dr. 
G. Brown Goode. The reading of the book impresses one strongly 
with the single-mindedness of those who have been chiefly concerned 
in the management of the Smithsonian Institution. C. B. D. 
Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science. — The volume 
of the Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science for 1896, dated 
1897, did not reach our hands until the last of January, 1898. The 
volume is a larger one than its predecessors, and, like them, is an 
example of printing done at state expense,—-a pretty poor exam- 
ple of typographic art. Another fault we have to find with the 
