Smithsonian miscellaneous collections

mrmimfi:r•V/"'>>aAi>«?jr>Mmmm:?.ww^sr2>T>.)-}My?0^ m^^r^fill>iJXi)S>Di)S>^®3'?*t)_j?S>J:ix>>xs>zp3>yy:>.y-m^^SMITHSONIANTTAIVKVOL. XXIX.'EVERY IS OF SOCIK.TY WHO BY HISMAN A VALVABLE MEMBER OBSERVATIONS, RESEARCHES,AND EXPERIMENTS PROCURES KNOWLEDGE FOR MEN."—SMITHSON.WASHINGTON:PUBLISHED BY THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.1887.STEREOTrPtI; ANO PniNTECDETWEILER,By JUDD &Washington, D. C.ADVERTISEMENT."The present series, entitled Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collec-tions," is intended to embrace all the publications issued directlySmithsonianby the Institution in octavo form; those in quarto"constituting the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge." Thequarto series includes memoirs, embracing tlie records of extendedoriginal investigations and researches, resulting in what are be-lieved to be new truths, and constituting positive additions to thesum of human knowledge. The octavo series is designed to con-tain reports on the present state of our knowledge of particularbranches of science ; instructions for collecting and digesting factsand materials for research ; lists and synopses of species of theorganic and inorganic world; museum catalogues; reports of ex-plorations aids to bibliographical investigations, etc., generally; pre-pared at the express request of the Institution, and at its expense.The assignment of a work to one or the other of the two serieswill sometimes depend upon whether the required illustrations ...