1621. Some Bird Life in British Papua. By R. A. Vivian. Pages 413–418. 1622. Bird Sanctuaries of New Zealand. Pages 419-422. 1623. The House Sparrow. By Dr. J. O. Skinner, U. S. Army. Pages 423-428. 1624. Some Tibetan Animals. By R. Lydekker. Pages 429-435. 1625. The Multiple Origin of Horses and Ponies. By Dr. J. Cossar Ewart. Pages 437-455, plates I, II. 1626. Egyptian and Arabian Horses. By E. Prisse D'Avennes. Pages 457-467, plates I-IV. 1627. Bees and Flowers. By E. L. Bouvier. Pages 469-484. 1628. The Pearl Fisheries of Ceylon. By W. A. Herdman. 1629. Flying Fishes and their Habits. By Theodore Gill. plates I-IV. Pages 485-493. 1630. The Stature of Man at Various Epochs. By A. Dastre. Pages 517-532. 1631. Old Age. By Elie Metchnikoff. Pages 533-550. 1632. Contributions of American Archeology to Human History. By W. H. Holmes. Pages 551-558. 1633. Excavations at Gournia, Crete. By Harriet A. Boyd. Pages 559-571, plates I-III. 1634. Archeological Researches on the Frontier of Argentina and Bolivia in 1901-2. By Eric Von Rosen. Pages 573–581, plates I-X. 1635. A General View of the Archæology of the Pueblo Region. By Edgar L. Hewett. Pages 583-606, plates 1-XVIII. 1636. The Painting of Human Bones among the American Aborigines. By Ales Hrdlicka. Pages 607-617, plates I-III. 1637. Sling Contrivances for Projectile Weapons. By F. Krause. Pages 619-638, plates I-IV. 1638. Materials Used to Write Upon before the Invention of Printing. By Albert Maire. Pages 639-658, plates I-VIII. 1639. An Inquiry into the Population of China. By William Woodville Rockhill. Pages 659-676. 1640. Chinese Architecture. By Stephen W. Bushell. Pages 677–692, plates I-XIX. 1641. Pewter and the Revival of its Use. By Arthur Lasenby Liberty. Pages 693-713, plates I-VI. 1642. Cameos. By Cyril Davenport. Pages 713-719, plates I-IV. 1643. The Economic Conquest of Africa by the Railroads. By A. Fock. Pages 721-735. 1644. The Present Aspects of the Panama Canal. By William H. Burr. Pages 737-744. 1645. The Sanitation of the Panama Canal Zone. By W. C. Gorgas. Pages 745-749. 1646. The Projected New Barge Canal of the State of New York. By Thomas W. Symons. Pages 751-757, plate 1. 1647. Rapid-Transit Subways in Metropolitan Cities. By Milo R. Maltbie. Pages 759-771. 1648. George Gabriel Stokes. By Ernest W. Brown. Pages 773-777, plate 1. 1649. Karl Alfred Von Zittel. Translated by Charles Schuchert. Pages 779786, plate I. 1650. Carl Gegenbaur. By Oscar Hertwig. Pages 787-791, plate I. IV. PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. The publications of the National Museum are: (a) the Annual Report, forming a separate volume of the Report of the Smithsonian Institution; (b) the Proceedings of the United States National Museum; (c) the Bulletin of the United States National Museum. (a) The Report for the year ending June 30, 1903, was completed during the past fiscal year, and the Report for 1904 is now in press. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year ending June 30, 1903. Report of the United States National Museum. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1905. Octavo. Pages I-XV, 1-646. Plates, 120; text figures, 120. CONTENTS. Part I. Report upon the condition and progress of the United States National Museum during the year ending June 30, 1903. By Richard Rathbun, assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in charge of the United States National Museum. Part II. Papers descriptive of Museum buildings. The United States National Museum: An account of the buildings occupied by the national collections. By Richard Rathbun. Studies of museums and kindred institutions of New York City, Albany, Buffalo, and Chicago, with notes on some European institutions. By A. B. Meyer. (b) Although enough separate papers have been published to make up Volume XXVIII of the Proceedings of the United States National Museum, they have not yet been put together in bound form. The separates so far issued are as follows: No. 1382. A Treatise on the Acarina, or Mites. By Nathan Banks. Pages 1-114, text figures 1-201. No. 1383. Notes on Hawaiian Reptiles from the Island of Maui. By Richard C. McGregor. Pages 115-118. No. 1384. Labracinus the Proper Name for the Fish Genus Cichlops. By Theodore Gill. Page 119. No. 1385. Note on the Genus Prionurus or Acanthoaulos. By Theodore Gill. Page 121. No. 1386. Description of a New Species of Fish (Apogon Evermanni) from the Hawaiian Islands, with Notes on other Species. By David Starr Jordan and John Otterbein Snyder. Pages 123–126. No. 1387. Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Hymenoptera from the Philippine Islands. By William H. Ashmead. Pages 127-158, with plates I-II. No. 1388. On the Systematic Relations of the Ammodytoid Fishes. By Theodore Gill. Pages 159–163, text figures 1-4. No. 1389. The Dragonflies (Odonata) of Burma and Lower Siam.-I. Subfamily Calopteryginæ. By Edward Bruce Williamson. Pages 165–187, text figures 1-18. No. 1390. On the Liparis (Trismegistus) Owstoni Jordan and Snyder. By Peter Schmidt. Pages 189-191, text figures 1-2. No. 1391. On a Collection of Fishes made in Korea, by Pierre Louis Juoy, with Descriptions of New Species. By David Starr Jordan and Edwin Chapin Starks. Pages 193-212, text figures 1-11. No. 1392. The Mount Vernon Meteorite. By Wirt Tassin. Pages 213-217, plates III-IV, 1 text figure. No. 1393. The Scorpenoid Fish, Neosebastes Extaxis, as the Type of a Distinct Species. By Theodore Gill. Pages 219–220, figures 1-2. No. 1394. Note on the Genera of Synanceine and Pelorine Fishes. dore Gill. Pages 221-225, text figure 1. By Theo No. 1395. Cambrían Brachiopoda, with Descriptions of New Genera and Species. By Charles D. Walcott. Pages 227-337. No. 1396. On the Generic Characteristics of Prionotus Stearnsii. By Theodore Gill. Pages 339-342, text figure 1-4. No. 1397. Three New Frogs and One New Gecko from the Philippine Islands. By Leonhard Stejneger. Pages 343-348. No. 1398. Descriptions of New Species of Tortricid Moths, from North Carolina, with Notes. By William Dunham Kearfott. Pages 349-364. No. 1399. Note on the Salmon and Trout of Japan. By David Starr Jordan. Pages 365-366. No. 1400. Descriptions of a New Genus of Isopoda belonging to the. Family Tanaidæ and of a New Species of Tanais, both from Monterey Bay, California. By Harriet Richardson. Pages 367-370, text figures 1-13. No. 1401. A Critical Review of the Literature on the Simple Genera of the Madreporia Fungida, with a Tentative Classification. By T. Wayland Vaughn. Pages 371-424. No. 1402. Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Mammals from the Philippine Islands. By Edgar A. Mearns. Pages 425–460. No. 1403. On a Collection of Orthoptera from Southern Arizona, with descriptions of New Species. By Andrew Nelson Caudell. Pages 461-477, text figures 1-6. No. 1404. North American Parasitic Copepods belonging to the Family Caligida. Part 1. The Caliginæ. By Charles Branch Wilson. Pages 479-672, plates v-XXIX, text figures 1-50. No. 1405. Notes on Mammals collected and observed in the Northern Mackenzie River District, Northwest Territories of Canada, with Remarks on Explorers and Explorations of the Far North. By R. MacFarlane. Pages 673-764, plates XXX-XXXIV. No. 1406. Description of a New Toad from Cuba. By Leonhard Stejneger. Pages 765-767, text figures 1-6. No. 1407. List of Fishes collected by Dr. Bashford Dean on the Island of Negros, Philippines. By David Starr Jordan and Alvin Seale. Pages 769–803. text figures 1-20. (c) of the Bulletin of the National Museum there was issued volume 3 of Bulletin No. 50, forming the third part of Mr. Robert Ridgway's monograph of the "Birds of North and Middle America;" part 4 of volume 8 of "Contributions from the National Herbarium," entitled "Studies of Mexican and Central American Plants, No. 4," by J. N. Rose; volume 9 of the same series, composed of a single paper on "The Useful Plants of the Island of Guam," by William E. Safford. V. PUBLICATIONS OF THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. Twenty-second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1900-1901. By J. W. Powell, Director. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904. In two parts. Part II. Pages 1-373; plates 9; text figures 11. CONTENTS: The Hako: A Pawnee Ceremony. By Alice Fletcher, assisted by James R. Murie. VI. REPORT OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. The annual report of the American Historical Association for the year 1904 was received from the Association and transmitted to the Public Printer in May, 1905. Its contents are as follows: Report of the Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting, at Chicago, Ill., December 28-30, 1904, by Charles H. Haskins, corresponding secretary. The Treatment of History, by Goldwin Smith. On Roman History, by Ettore Pais. On the Necessity in America of the Study of the Early History of Modern European Nations, by Friedrich Keutgen. The Chief Currents of Russian Historical Thought, by Paul Milyoukov. The Work of American Historical Societies, by Henry E. Bourne. Public Records in Our Dependencies, by Worthing Chauncey Ford. The Exploration of the Louisiana Frontier, 1803-1806, by Isaac J. Cox. Report of the Conference on the Teaching of History in Elementary Schools, by J. A. James. Report of the Conference on the Teaching of Church History, by Francis A. Christie. First Report of the Conference of State and Local Historical Societies, by Frederick W. Moore. State Departments of Archives and History, by Thomas McAdory Owen. Report of the Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch, by Max Farrand. Bibliographical Notes on Early California, by Robert Ernest Cowan. The Nootka Sound Controversy, by W. R. Manning. Report of the Public Archives Commission on Archives of Alabama, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Kansas, and Georgia. Report on the Collection of Materials in English and European History and Subsidiary Fields in Libraries of United States, by Wilbur H. Siebert. VII. REPORT OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The seventh report of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution was received from that Society in May, and was submitted to Congress in accordance with the requirements of the law. Respectfully submitted. Mr. S. P. LANGLEY, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. A. HOWARD CLARK, Editor. |