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Wooton and Standley ; and the following Bulletins : No. 71, "A mono- 

 graph of the Foraminifera of the North Pacific Ocean, Part V, 

 Eotaliidae," by Joseph A. Cushman; No. 82, "A monograph of the 

 existing crinoids, Volume 1, The Comatulids, Part 1," by Austin H. 

 Clark ; No. 88, " Eevision of Paleozoic Stelleroidea with special refer- 

 ence to North American Asteroidea," by Charles Schuchert ; No. 89, 

 " Osteolog}'^ of the armored Dinosauria in the United States National 

 IMuseum, with special reference to the genus Stegosaurus," by Charles 

 W. Gilmore; No. 90, "A monograph of the molluscan fauna of the 

 Orthaulax pugnax zone of the Oligocene of Tampa, Florida," by 

 "William Healey Dall; and Special Bulletin No. 4, "American Hy- 

 droids, Part III, The Campanularidae and the Bonneviellidae," by 

 Charles C. Nutting. Two papers for which there is a continuing de- 

 mand were reprinted. These were Bulletin 39, part N, " Directions 

 for preparing specimens of mammals," by Gerrit S. Miller, jr.; and 

 paper No. 73 from the Museum Report for 1893, entitled "The 

 poisonous snakes of North America," by Leonhard Stejneger. Of 

 the 41 pamphlets issued in separate form in a small edition for 

 prompt distribution to specialists, 12 were from volume 47, 28 from 

 volume 48, and 1 from volume 49 of the Proceedings. 



The distribution of volumes and separates to libraries and indi- 

 viduals on the regular mailing list aggregated approximately 43,400 

 copies, and, in addition, about 10,900 copies of publications of pre- 

 vious years were sent out in response to special applications. 



Besides the papers above mentioned many contributions based on 

 material in the Museum were published by other bureaus of the 

 Government and by private institutions, all of which are cited in the 

 bibliography. Those issued by the Smithsonian Institution comprise 

 the following which appeared in the Miscellaneous Collections : " Ex- 

 plorations and field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1913 " ; 

 "Archeology of the Lower Mimbres Valley, New Mexico," by J. 

 Walter Fewkes; "The present distribution of the Onychophora, a 

 group of terrestrial invertebrates," by -Austin H. Clark; "Cambrian 

 geology and paleontology. III. Pre-Cambrian Algonldan algal 

 flora," by Charles D. Walcott ; " Eeport upon a collection of ferns 

 from western South America," by William R. Maxon ; " The micro- 

 spectroscope in mineralogy," by Edgar T. Wherry ; and " Explora- 

 tions and field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1914." In 

 addition to these the Institution also published "The most ancient 

 skeletal remains of man," by Ales Hrdlicka, in the Eeport for 1913, 

 and "An index to the Museum Boltenianum," by William Healey 

 Dall. 



The editorial office, besides supervising the printing of the Musemn 

 publications, also has charge of all miscellaneous printing and 

 binding. 



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