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Washington — Continued. 



Director of the Mint. Annual Report for the Fiscal 

 Year ended June 30, 1887. Eeport of the Director 

 of the Mint upon the Production of the Precious 

 Metals in the United States during the Calendar 

 Years 1883, 1884, 1885. The Director. 



Hydrographie Office. Annual Eeport of the Hydro- 

 grapher to the Bureau of Navigation for the Fiscal 

 Year ending June 30, 1887. Notice to Mariners, 

 Nos. 28, 35 to 51 incl., 1887; Nos. 1 to 6, 1888. 



Charts. 

 Pilot Charts of the North Atlantic Ocean, October 

 to December, 1887, January, February, 1888 ; 

 No. 1016, N. A., West Coast of Central America, 

 San Juan del Sur to Judas Point ; No. 1037, C.A., 

 West Coast of Costa Pica, Gulf of Dulce. 



The U. S. Hydrographer. 



National Academy of Sciences. Memoirs, Vol. iii., 



Part 2, 1886. The Academy. 



Secretary of the Treasury. Annual Eeport on the State 

 of the Finances for the Year 1887. (No. 1028, 

 1st Edit.) and (No. 1028, 3rd Edit.) The Secretary. 



Smithsonian Institution. Annual Eeport of the Board 

 of Eegents to July, 1885, Part 1. Smithsonian 

 Miscellaneous Collections, No. 480, 1883 (viz., 

 Classified List of Publications of the Smithsonian 

 Institution.) Scientific Writings of Joseph Henry, 

 Vols. i. & ii., 1886. The Institution. 



United States Geological Survey. Annual Eeport 

 (Sixth) of the U. S. Geological Survey to the 

 Secretary of the Interior, 1884-85. Bulletin, 

 Nos. 34 to 39 incl. The Director. 



Wellington, N.Z. — Colonial Museum and Geological Survey 

 of New Zealand. Annual Eeport (Twenty-second) 

 on the Colonial Museum and Laboratory, 1886-87. 

 Eeports of Geological Explorations during 1885, 

 1886-87. Index to Eeports of the Geological 

 Survey of New Zealand, from 1866 to 1885 inclusive. 

 Studies in Biology for New Zealand Students, 

 No. 3. The Anatomy of the Common Mussels 

 (Mytilus Latus, Edulis, and Magellanicus) , by Alex. 

 Purdie, M.A. The Director. 



Winnipeg — Manitoba Historical and Scientific Society. 

 Annual Eeport for the Year 1886-7. Transactions, 

 Nos. 22 to 29 incl., 1886-7. The Society. 



Miscellaneous. 

 (Names of Donors are in Italics.) 



Allen, T. F., M.D., LL.D.— The Characese of America, 



Part i. The Publishers. 



Ashburner, Charles A., C.E. — The Geologic Distribution of 

 Natural Gas in the United States. The Geologic 

 Eelations of the Nanticoke Disaster. The Author. 



