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in the various departments of science, is in almost daily use 

 by students. This has been especially true of geologists and 

 paleontologists, who are interested in oil investigations and 

 prospecting. The large research collections in the different 

 departments have been consulted by a number of investigators. 

 Mr. L. M. Looniis continues to avail himself of the Acad- 

 emy's collections and Library in his study of sea birds. 

 Messrs. Joseph Grinnell, Harry S. Swarth, Tracy I. Storer, and 

 J. Eugene Law, of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, have 

 had occasion to consult our collections of birds, mammals 

 and reptiles. Numerous entomologists of the west coast make 

 frequent use of the rapidly growing collections in that de- 

 partment, and the botanists of the coast find it to their in- 

 terest to consult the herbarium. 



The Boy Scouts, under Scout Master Harold E. Hanson, 

 have continued the Friday night meetings at the Museum 

 throughout the year. The Academy is glad to cooperate in 

 this way. 



PUBLICATIONS BY THE MUSEUM STAFF 



The curators and other members of the Museum staff have 

 continued active in research work and in their contributions to 

 the scientific literature of their respective fields of investiga- 

 tion, as evidenced by the following list of titles of papers 

 published by them in 1919-1920: 



Evermann, Barton Warren 



1. Nesting of the Wilson Snipe in California. <The Condor, Vol. 

 XXI, No. 3, May-June (June 6), 1919, p. 121. 



2. Large Set of Eggs of the Canada Goose. <The Condor, Vol. XXI, 

 No. 3, May-June (June 6), 1919, p. 126. 



3. California Trout. < California Fish and Game, Vol. V, No. 3, 

 July, 1919. pp. 105-135, 4 colored plates, text-figures 36-46. (With 

 Harold C. Bryant.) 



4. The Northern Fur-Seal Problem as a Type of Many Problems of 

 Marine Zoology. <The Scientific Monthly, Vol. IX, No. 3, Sep- 

 tember, 1919, pp. 263-282, 4 plates, 6 text-figures. 



5. A Colony of Tricolor Blackbirds. <The Gull, Vol. I, No. 9, pp. 

 2-3, September, 1919. 



6. The Steinhart Aquarium, San Francisco. <Aquatic Life, August, 

 1919, pp. 159-160, 1 plate. 



7. Note on the Basking Shark. <Copeia, No. 74, October IS, 1919, 

 pp. 77-78. 



