the Persian Gulf, by David G. Fairchild; The American deserts; Consul Skin-
ner's mission to Abyssinia; The sailing ship and the Panama canal, by James
l'age; The new home of the Society: Map of Alaska: The bureau of fisheries--
how the rich fisheries of the United States are protected and new fishing grounds
discovered and created, by Barton W. Evermann; The geography of Alaska,
by Alfred H. Brooks; Termination land- the end of the Antarctic continent
discovered by the American Wilkes, by Edwin Swift Balch; Lessons from
Japan: Inoculating the ground; The Crosby expedition to Thibet; The work of
the Bureau of Insular Affairs, by Clarence R. Edwards; Some indications of
land in the vicinity of the north pole, by R. A. Harris; Notes on Manchuria,
by Henry B. Miller; The red ant versus the boll weevil; Governing the Philip-
pine islands, by Clarence R. Edwards; Forecasting the weather; Notes on
Thibet; General announcement eighth International Geographic Congress, Wash-
ington, 1904; Peru-its resources, development, and future, by Alfredo Alvarez
Calderon; Agriculture in Japan, by U. S. Consul-General Bellows; Lake Clark,
a little known Alaskan lake, by Wilfred H. Osgood; The geographical pivot of
history: A winter expedition into southwestern Mexico, by E. W. Nelson;
Building the Alaskan telegraph line, by William Mitchell; The fisheries of
Japan, by Hugh M. Smith; What the U. S. Geological Survey has done in
25 years; Colossal natural bridges of Utah; Address by Robert E. Peary on
the assembling of the eighth international geographic congress in Washington;
Some early geographers of the United States, by C. M. Chester; Recent progress
in the execution of a map of the world on the uniform scale of 1: 1,000,000,
by Albrecht Penck; Methods of exploration in Africa, by A. St. II. Gibbons;
The special telegraphic time signal from the naval observatory in honor of
the eighth International Geographic Congress; Resolutions adopted by the
congress; Some early geographers of the United States, by C. M. Chester; The
new English province of Northern Nigeria; Scientific work of Mount weather
meteorological research observatory, by Frank H. Bigelow; Some facts about
Japan; The glaciers of Alaska; Government assistance in handling forest lands;
China, by John W. Foster; A doubtful island of the Pacific, by James D. Hague;
The United States government telegraph and cable lines, with maps; A bird city
in Hawaii: Index to volume xv.
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For Vol. XVI, see Appendix.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. National Geographic Monographs. Vol. I.
New York, 1895.

Contents: 1, General Physiographic Processes, by J. W. Powell; 2, General
Physiographic Features, by J. W. Powell; 3, Physiographic Regions of the
United States, by J. W. Powell; 4. Present and Extinct Lakes of Nevada, by
I. C. Russell; 5, Beaches and Tidal Marshes of the Atlantic Coast, by N. S.
Shaler 6, The Northern Appalachians, by Bailey Willis; 7, Niagara Falls and
their History, by G. K. Gilbert: 8. Mount Shasta, by J. S. Diller; 9. The
Physical Geography of Southern New England, by W. M. Davis; 10, The
Southern Appalachians, by C. W. Hayes.
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY.

...

ten monographs. . . [etc.] 1896.

Svo, pp. v, 345. Illus., maps.

The physiography of the United States;

First issued in 10 parts in 1895 under the title: National geographic monographs, prepared under the auspices of the National geographic society. Given above.

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. Topographic models. By Cosmos Mindeleff ... [Washington, 1888]

Cover-title, pp. 16, 2 pl. 8vo.

no. 3.

Lecture delivered before the " National Geographic Society" at Washington, October 5th, 1888. Published in the "National Geographic Magazine," vol. 1, (908 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. The rivers and valleys of Pennsylvania. Leeture delivered before the National Geographic Society at Washington, February 8, 1889, by W. M. Davis. Washington, 1889.

Svo, pp. 71. Map and woodcuts.

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[NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY.] Directory of scientific societies of Washington, comprising the Anthropological, Biological, Chemical, Entomological,

Geological, National geographic, and Philosophical societies.

1889-1898.

[1st-]10th year of publication ... Published by the joint commission. [Washington, 1889–98]

Svo, 10 v. in 1.

Each issue contains brief historical sketches of the societies above mentioned, and lists of members.

The issue for 1898 has title: "Supplement to Directory of scientific societies of Washington for 1897, corrected and brought down to February 7, 1898. Tenth year of publication." It contains only the changes in officers and mem

bership since 1897.

Continued as Directory of the Washington academy of sciences.

UNITED STATES CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

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Contains address by Gen. C. P. Stone upon early Catholic explorations in America, and an address by J. G. Shea upon Catholics and Catholicity in the days of the American Revolution. (912 UNITED STATES CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Proceedings of the third public and first annual meeting of the Society, February 11, 1886. New York, 1886. Svo, pp. 29.

Contains paper by Edmond Mallet, "The origin of the Oregon mission." (913 UNITED STATES CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY. United States Catholic Historical Magazine. Published under the auspices of the United States Catholic Historical Society. New York. Published quarterly.

Contents: The United States Catholic Historical Society; The origin of the Oregon mission, by Edmond Mallet; Brief sketch of the Seminary of St. Charles Borromeo, diocese of Philadelphia, by Marc F. Vallette; Account of the Voyage of the Ursulines to New Orleans in 1727, translated by John Gilmary Shea; Historical sketch of the ancient parish of St. Mary's, Lancaster, Pa., by S. M. Sener; Catholic relics of early days; A description of Maryland, extracted from a poem entitled "Carmen Seculare" addressed to Lord Baltimore in 1732 by Mr. Lewis; Birthplace of Father Joseph Greaton; Sketch by Dr. Bruté for a work to be called "Catholic America;" project of a history by Charles I. White; Letter of Lawrence Graessel, 1793, first selected as Coadjutor to Bishop Carroll, translated by Charles G. Herbermann; Some early Catholic grammar schools, by Wm. P. Treacy; Decreta Concilii Provincialis, Oregonensis I. 1848; Catholic and anti-catholic items in American colonial papers-extracts from "The Maryland Gazette;" Conversion of John Richard, related by himself; The small-pox among the Indians at and near Fort Michimillimakinak in 1757, by Edward Jacker; Meetings of the Society; Notes and queries; Notices of recent publications; A dark chapter in the Catholic history of Maryland, by Edward I. Devitt; Commodore John Barry, by William Seton; The first epic of our country by the poet Conquistador of New Mexico, Gaspar De Villagrá, by John Gilmary Shea; Catholic action on the death of Washington, contributed by John Gilmary Shea; Letter from Charles Carroll of Carrollton to General Washington, 1775; Form of matrimonial investigations (Diligencias De Solteria) in Florida, translated from the original Spanish documents; Notes on the tombs of Cardinal Cheverus, Bishop Dubourg, and Bishop David, by J. M. Finotti; Additional historical notes in reference to St. Mary's at Lancaster, by S. M. Sener: Diocese of Quebec in the XVIIth century, note by Bishop Bruté; Early Lazarist missions and missionaries, by Stephen Vincent Ryan; Father Henry Nouvel, the pioneer missionary of lower Michigan, by Edward Jacker; St. Genevieve

Academy and Rt. Rev. Louis Wm. Dubourg, Bishop of Louisiana, by Firmin A. Rozier; Rev. James Maxwell, missionary at St. Genevieve, by Firman A. Rozier; Statutes relating to Florida, in the Diocesan Synod, held by His Majesty's command, by the Rt. Rev. John Garcia De Palacios, Bishop of Cuba, in June, 1684; St. James-the first church in Brooklyn, N. Y.-papers communicated by John Loughlin; Appointment of Charles Carroll, Sr., to the Council in Maryland in 1777; Sketch of the Mission of St. Malachy's, Doe Run, Chester Co., Pa., by James Nash; Chronology of Catholicity in Massachusetts, by J. M. Finotti; Catholic and anti-catholic items in New York colonial papers; The martyrs of the Colorado, 1781, and the identification of the place where they died; The oldest Catholic city of the west-Detroit and its founder, by Richard R. Elliott; Brief sketch of Catholicity in the coal regions of Pennsylvania, by Marc F. Vallette; Father George Fenwick, by J. Fairfax McLaughlin; Marquette, verses commemorating his death, May 18, 1675, by Oscar W. Collet; Statutes of the diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas, issued by Rt. Rev. Luis Ignatius Peñalver y Cardenas in 1795; Index to Vol. I.

Vol. II. 1888. 8vo, pp. vi, 342, 83.

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Contents: Pope-Day in America, by John Gilmary Shea; The Acadians before their dispersion, by H. R. Casgrain; How Father Harding's deed of St. Mary's Church property came to be recorded, by Bishop Egan; Notes on Parkman's "Conspiracy of Pontiac," by Oscar W. Collet; Some Lancaster Catholics and other historical notes, by S. M. Sener; The origin of the mission to the Flathead Indians, by Edmond Mallet; Sir John James of Crishall, Essex, the benefactor of the Pennsylvania missions, by John Gilmary Shea; Catholic and antiCatholic items from New York papers, 1765-1778; Meetings of the Society; Notes and queries; Notices of recent publications; History of the Catholic Church in Monroe city and county, Mich., by Camillus P. Maes; Christopher Davenport-the brother of New Haven's founder a Franciscan friar, by T. J. Shahan; Columbus and the men of Palos, by John Gilmary Shea; Major Clement Gosselin, U. S. A., by Edmond Mallet; La Gardeur de St. Pierre, by Edmond Mallet; Father Peter Milet's captivity among the Oneida Indians, 1689– 1694; Catholic and anti-Catholic items from New York and Pennsylvania papers, 1775-1782; Summary on the Catholic religion in the English colonies in America, from the Italian in the Propaganda Archives-communicated by Charles A. Vissani; Adventures of a Jesuit lay brother who set sail for Maryland in 1657; Further notes on Pope-Day, by T. J. Shahan; Letter of Rt. Rev. John Carroll, to Sam. Dexter, Secretary of War, on the Indian missions, 1800; First Diocesan Synod of Baltimore; A memoir of the life and labors of Amadeus Rappe, first Bishop of Cleveland, by G. F. Houck; Historical sketch of John Thayer, Boston's first native-born priest, by Arthur T. Connolly; Early Catholics in Connecticut, by Thomas J. Shahan; The beginnings of the Capuchin Mission in Louisiana; Robert Walsh, by Henry C. Walsh; Notes on old churches near Washington; To the Hon'ble, The Upper House of Assembly of the Province of Maryland-the petition of sundry Ro. Catholics on behalf of themselves and others of the same communion residing in the province aforesaid, 1756; General description of the metropolitan province of Baltimore in the United States of North America, translated from a Latin manuscript of Archbishop Maréchal, prepared in 1821-2; The Catholic laity's directory to the church service, with an almanac for the year 1817. Index. History of Ancient Vinland, or part of North America, by Thormod Torfason, translated by Charles G. Herbermann. (Has separate title page.) (915 Vol. III. 1890. 8vo, pp. vi, 441. Plate.

Contents: Early history of the Redemptorists in the United States, 18321850, by Charles Warren Currier; A priest ambassador to the United States— Jose Correa Da Sarra; The Catholic Church in Connecticut-the first priest in the commonwealth, by Thomas J. Shahan; Sketch of Father Louis André, an early Wisconsin missionary, by A. E. Jones; The first chapel of the Jesuits in New Orleans; History of the old Catholic Chapel at Priest's Ford, in Harford county, Md., by G. W. Andrew; Permission to beg in Canada, for the church in Albany, in 1797; History of the establishment of the Carmelites in Maryland; The plundering of St. Inigoes, St. Mary's county, Maryland; The destruction of New Mexico settlements and missions, and the reconquest of the country, by Silvestre Velez de Escalante; Pastoral letter of V. Rev. Patrick Walsh, administrator of the diocese of New Orleans, 1805; Catholic bibliography; Meeting of the Society; Notes and queries and replies; Book notices; Why is Canada not a part of the United States? by John Gilmary Shea; Christopher Talbot, bookseller, Philadelphia (1797); Rev. Francis A. Matignon, first pastor of the

Church of the Holy Cross, Boston, Mass.. by Arthur J. Connolly; Diocesan synods and statutes (concluded); Rev. Demetrius A. Gallitzin, “"The pastor of the Alleghanies," by Charles Constantine Pise; Statistics of St. Anne's Church, Detroit, 1703-1800; Illinois, Osage and Otoptata chiefs in Paris, in 1725; German missions in eastern Pennslyvania, by Marc F. Vallette; The centennial monument of St. Mary's Church, Monroe, Michigan; The pioneer French in the valley of the Ohio, by A. A. Lambing; Maryland Catholics in penal days (1759); Petition sent by the committee of the Roman Catholics of Newcastle to the convention chosen to form a constitution for the new state of Maine, 1819; Dongan's charter of the city of New York, by John Gilmary Shea; Liberty and property or the beauty of Maryland displayed, being a brief and candid search and inquiry into her charter, fundamental laws and constitution, by a lover of his country (written the latter part of the 17th century); The genesis of the early history of Detroit, by Richard R. Elliott; Letters relating to the destruc tion of the Ursuline convent, Charlestown, Mass, 1834; Illinois and Miami vocabulary and the Lord's Prayer; The diocese of Brooklyn, by Mare F. Vallette: Was there a Jesuit college at Kaskaskia in the days of the French?; Condition of St. Peter's Church, New York, in 1800; Gonzalo De Mendoza's " Historia De Las Cosas Mas Notables, Ritos y Costumbres Del Gran Reyno De La China," and its place in Americana and New Mexicana; Points from the ecclesiastical history of Cattaraugus county. N. Y.; Reminiscences of North Carolina. by James Cardinal Gibbons; The Surratt case, by J. A. Walter; Don Juan De Oñate, founder of New Mexico; Letters of William Peaseley and his wife on Maryland affairs, 1642; Marin De La Margue, by Edmond Mallet; Correspondence between Henry Clark Bowen Green, M. D., and Very Rev. William Taylor, 1824-25; Papers relating to the French settlement at Gallipolis; Philippe Thomas De Joncaire, by Edmond Mallet; Indian mythology, by E. Jacker; Archbishops and bishops of the United States whose episcopates have reached or exceeded twenty-five years; Index.

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UNITED STATES CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY. United States Catholic Historical Magazine. Published under the auspices of the United States Catholic Historical Society. Quarterly. Vol. IV. [No. 1.] January, 18911892. New York, 1891-92.

Cover reads Vol. IV, No. XIII.

8vo, pp. 112.

Contents: Cornelius Heeney, by John M. Kiely; A Catholic priest in Congress, sketch of Gabriel Richard, by Thomas A. E. Weadock; The diocese of Brooklyn, by Marc F. Vallette; Eloquent letter of Daniel Dougherty on the Columbus centenary; Letters of Bishop England to Wm. Gaston, 1821; Letters of John Connolly, second bishop of New York, 1810-1816; The Society's tribute to John Gilmary Shea; Early Catholic affairs in Utica, N. Y., by F. P. McFarland; Catholic losses in America, by John Gilmary Shea; Sketch of Catholicity in Chicago, by Mary Josephine Onahan; Will of Father Gallitzin, 1840; An old mission revived (among the Oneida Indians); Where did Columbus acquire his knowledge of books?; Meetings of the Society; Ignorance of our history; Notes: Letter of Joseph Story on Harvard's conferring the degree of doctor of laws on William Gaston, 1826; The Church in Savannah early in this century; Queries; Reply; Book notices.

Vol. IV [No. 2] has not been found.

UNITED STATES CATHOLIC HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.

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Contents: Charles O'Conor, some incidents of his life, from his private papers; The bursting of Pierre Margry's La Salle bubble-a review, by John Gilmary Shea; Pictures of missionary life in Charles county, Maryland, by George A. Mulry; The Jesuit manuscript-Account book of the Huron Mission of Detroit, 1733-1751, translated and annotated by Richard R. Elliott; Longfellow's Hiawatha-the arrival of the missionary, by M. F. Vallette; Meeting of the Society. May 28, 1893; Notes and queries: Goshenhoppen mission; Hamtramck; General Jackson; Huron language in print and manuscript in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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UNITED STATES CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Additional historical notes in reference to St. Mary's at Lancaster. By S[amuel] M[iller] Sener. [Lancaster, Pa.?] 1887.

Svo, pp. 5.

Reprinted from U. S. Catholic Historical Magazine, 1887.

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INITED STATES CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Historical sketch of the ancient parish of St. Mary's Lancaster, Pa. By S[amuel] M[iller] Sener. [Lancaster, Pa.?] 1887.

Svo, pp. 12. pl.

[Sener, S. M. Historical pamphlets, no. 4.]

Reprinted from U. S. Catholic Historical Magazine, 1887.

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UNITED STATES CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Very Rev. Bernard Keenan, v. G. Sketch of one of the pioneer priests of Pennsylvania. By S[amuel] M[iller] Sener. [Lancaster, Pa.?] 1887.

8vo, pp. 10. port.

[Sener, S. M. Historical pamphlets, no. 6.]

Reprinted from C. S. Catholic Historical Magazine.

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UNITED STATES CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Pope day in America. By John Gilmary Shea. [New York, 1888.]

8vo, pp. 7.

Read before the Society January 19, 1888.

Reprinted from the United States Catholic Historical Magazine.

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UNITED STATES CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Why is Canada not a part of the United States? Read before the Society, November 25, 1889, by John Gilmary Shea. [New York, 1890.]

8vo, pp. 15.

Reprinted from the United States Catholic Historical Magazine. UNITED STATES CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Christopher Columbus.

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by Frederick R. Coudert before the Catholic Club and the U. S. Catholic Historical Society. Carnegie hall, October 11, 1892. [New York, 1892.] Svo, pp. 51.

(925 UNITED STATES CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Columbus memorial volume. Published by the joint committee of the Catholic Club and the United States Catholic Historical Society. New York, 1893.

8vo. pp. xiii, (8), 193. Portraits. Plates.

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UNITED STATES CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Historical Records and Studies. Vol. I. [1899-1900.] New York, 1900.

8vo, pp. 423. Portraits.

Contents: Salutatory; The silver jubilee of Archbishop Corrigan; Register of the clergy laboring in the archdiocese of New York from early missionary times till 1885, by Michael Augustine Corrigan; An unpublished letter of Father Jogues, 1636, with facsimile; Cardinal McCloskey, by John M. Farley; Unpublished letters of Father Anthony Kohlmann, 1808-10, with a short account of his life; A French émigré colony in the United States (1789-1793), by Charles George Herbermann; The earliest baptismal register of St. Peter's church, New York, by James H. McGean; Brief sketch of the life of the Rev. Gregory Bryan Pardow (1829-1838); The society of St. Raphael and the Leo house, by Joseph Schaefer and Chas. G. Herbermann; Dr. John Gilmary Shea, by Marc F. Vallette; Enoch Louis Lowe, by Andrew E. Eichmann; Record of historical literature; Archbishop Hughes and the draft riots, by Thomas F. Meehan; The beginnings of the hierarchy in the United States, by Thomas J. Campbell; The Rt. Rev. John Dubois, third bishop of New York, by Chas. G. Herbermann; St. Peter's church, New York, its corporations and its propertyThe old trustee system, by James H. McGean; A Protestant judge of a hundred years ago (Yeates), by Charles W. Sloane; The Catholic cemeteries of New York, by Michael Augustine Corrigan; Necrology of Father John Larkin; Joseph W. Carroll, by Thomas F. Meehan; The Emmet family, by C. G. H[erbermann.] (927