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CONTENTS. 



Page. 



E. — Review of the half year's work in the scientific departments 37 



15. Division of Anthropology 37 



(a) Arts and industries 37 



(&) Ethnology 40 



(c) American prehistoric pottery 40 



(d) Antiquities 41 



1G. Division of Zoology 41 



(a) Mammals 41 



(&) Birds 42 



(c) Reptiles and batrachians 44 



(d) Fishes 44 



(e) Comparative anatomy •- 44 



(/). Mollusks 45 



(g) Insects 47 



(/a) Marine invertebrates 48 



(i) Invertebrate fossils (Paleozoic) 49 



(k) Invertebrate fossils (Meso-Cenozoic) 49 



17. Division of Botany 50 



(a) Fossil plants 50 



( b) Recent plants 50 



18. Division of Geology : 51 



(a) Minerals 51 



(&) Lithology and physical geology 51 



(e) Metallurgy and economic geology 53 



Part II.— Reports of the Curators and Acting Curators. 



I.— Department of Arts and Industries: 



Section of Materia Medica. By H. G. Beyer, U. S. N 57 



Section of Textile Industries. By Romyn Hitchcock 59 



Section of Foods. By Romyn Hitchcock 61 



II (A) — Department of Ethnology. By Otis T. Mason 03 



II (B) — Department of American Prehistoric Pottery. By Y7illiam H. 



Holmes C9 



III. — Department of Antiquities. By Charles Ran 71 



IV. — Department of Mammals. By Frederick W. True 79 



V. — Department of Birds and Birds' Eggs. By Robert Ridgway 85 



VI.— Department of Reptiles. By H. C. Yarrow, U. S. A 93 



VII.— Department of . Fishes. By Tarleton H. Bean 95 



VIII. — Department of Comparative Anatomy. By Frederick W. True 99 



IX.—Departinen t of Mollusks. By W. H. ball 103 



X.— Department of Insects. By C. V. Riley 113 



XI. — Department of Marino Invertebrates. By Richard Rathbun 117 



XII (A) — Department of Invertebrate Fossils (Paleozoic). By C. D. Walcott. 129 

 XII (B)— Department of Invertebrate Fossils (Meso-Cenozoic). By C. A. 



White 133 



XIII.— Department of Plants. By Lester F. Ward 135 



XIV.— Department of Minerals. By F. W. Clarke 137 



XV. — Department of Lithology and Physical Geology. By George P. 



Merrill 139 



XVI. — Department of Metallurgy and Economic Geology. By Fred. P. 



Dewey 143 



