Abstract
THIS important publication is increasing year by year in value, in consequence of the pains taken to increase the quantity and quality of the records of progress in the various sciences. In the present volume it brings the records of the Institution down to June 30,1887. We find the proceedings of the Board of Regents and of the Executive Committee, the Report of the Secretary on the general work of the establishment, the National Museum, and the Bureau of Ethnology. But there is very much more than this, although these matters are by no means of merely local interest. The progress of astronomy, North American geology and palæontology, vulcanology and seismology, geography and exploration, physics, chemistry, mineralogy, zoology, and anthropology, take up no less than 500 pages, and are admirably done. We should add that the record of each branch of science is accompanied by a full bibliography, which largely increases its usefulness. The miscellaneous papers this year deal chiefly with the Western mounds and Indian archæology.
Smithsonian Report, 1887.
(Washington: Government Printing Office.)
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Our Book Shelf. Nature 42, 368 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/042368a0
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