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retirement in 1892, by Dr. Berg, formerly director of the Museo 

 nacional de Montevideo, who undertook the reclassification of the 

 museum on modern lines, and the installation of herpetological, ichthy- 

 ological and biological collections. The present director succeeded Dr. 

 Berg upon the death of the latter in 1902. The museum is at present 

 divided into 5 sections: (i) Seccion zoologica, (ii) Seccion paleon- 

 tologica, (iii) Seccion etnologica, (iv) Seccion botanica, (v) Seccion 

 geologico-mineralogica. It maintains two exploring parties in the 

 field, one for zoology and botany, the other for geology, mineralogy 

 and paleontology, by means of funds supplied by the national gov- 

 ernment. It has also a large library. The present name was assumed 

 when, after the federalization of Buenos Aires in 1880, the museum 

 passed from the control of the provincial government into the hands 

 of the nation. 



Ref. : Anales ... t. I, p. i-u. Baedeker de la Repiiblica Argentina, por 

 Alberto B. Martinez. 2. ed. Buenos Aires, 1904. 



Publications. 



ANALES . . . t. I-III, (i. e. entr. 1-17). Buenos Aires, 1864/69- 

 1883/91. fol. 



Actas de la Sociedad paleontologica de Buenos Aires, 1866- [68] : issued 



with t. I, with separate t.-p. and paging. 



Boletin del Museo publico de Buenos Aires, p. i-xx : issued with t. 2, 

 entr. 2 and 4. 



ser. 2, t. I-IV. Buenos Aires, 1895-1902. 4. 



Numbered also t. 4-7. 



ser. 3, t. I-VIII. Buenos Aires, 1902-07. 4. 



t. 3: Recherches de morphologic phylogenetique sur les molaires superieures 

 des ongules, par F. Ameghino. 1904. (Also issued separately.) 



/. 7: Les mollusques fossiles du tertiaire et du cretace superieur de 1'Argen- 

 tine, par H. von Ihering. 1907. 



t. 8: Les formations sedimentaires du cretace superieur et du tertiaire de 

 Patagonie, par F. Ameghino. 1906. (Also issued separately.) 



Comunicaciones . . . t. I. Buenos Aires, 1898-1901. 8. 

 In 10 nos. Discontinued. 



Los caballos fosiles de la Pampa argentina, descriptos por Dr. German 

 Burmeister. Buenos Aires, 1875. fol. 



"Obra executada por orden del superior gobierno de la provincia de Buenos 

 Aires, para ser presentada en la exposicion de Filadelfia." Also German 

 t.-p. Text in Spanish and German in parallel columns. 



Since 1897 administrative reports (1894 to date) have been published 

 in Memoria de justicia, culto e instruction publica; and since 1898 

 also in Anales. 



Distribution. Exchange. 2d and 3d series of Anales on sale by Friedlander und 

 Sohn, Berlin and in Buenos Aires. 



