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spectively, "List of North American Land Mammals in the United 

 States National Museum, 1911," by Gerrit S. Miller, jr., and "A 

 SjTiopsis of the Rotatoria," by Hany K. Harrmg. Of the separate 

 papers 96 belonged to the series of Proceedings, composing all of 

 volumes 43 and 44 and parts of volumes 42 and 45, and 9 belonged to 

 volumes 16 and 17 of the Contributions from the National Herbarium. 

 They are listed in the bibUography at the end of this report. The 

 regular distribution of the above pubhcations aggi'egated about 

 57,300 copies, while of these and former publications some 14,300 

 copies were supphed in compliance with special requests. 



Many reports on material belonging to the National Museum or to 

 be added to its collections are prmted elsewhere than in the Museum 

 series. They consist in part of papers, often monographic, issued by 

 the scientific bureaus of the Government and other scientific estab- 

 lishments, and in part of generally brief accounts of discoveries 

 which it is important should be published more promptly than is 

 possible through Government channels. Several of the scientific 

 societies offer opportunities for such urgent pubhcation, as does also 

 the Smithsonian Institution. Mainly, but not entirely, 'belonging to 

 this class are the following papers printed in the Smithsonian Mis- 

 cellaneous Collections during 1913: "New mammals from eastern 

 Panama" and "Descriptions of new mammals from Panama and 

 Mexico," by E. A. Goldman; "New rodents from British East 

 Africa," "New genera and races of African ungulates" and "New 

 races of insectivores, bats and lemurs from British East Africa," by 

 Edmund Heller; "New mammals from the highlands of Siberia," 

 "Description of a new gazelle from northwestern Mongolia," and 

 "Two new mammals from the Siberian Altai," by N. Hollister; "A 

 new vole from eastern Mongoha," by Gerrit S. Miller, jr.; "Diagnosis 

 of a new beaked whale of the genus Mesoplodon from the coast of 

 North Carolina," by Frederick W. True; "A new subspecies of cross- 

 bill from Newfoundland," by A. C. Bent; "Description of a new 

 African grass- war bier of the genus Cisticola," by Edgar A. Mearns; 

 "Descriptions of new genera, species and subspecies of birds from 

 Panama, Colombia and Ecuador" and "Two new subspecies of 

 bhds from the slopes of Mount Pirri, eastern Panama," by E. W. 

 Nelson; "Descriptions of one hundred and four new species and 

 subspecies of birds from the Barussan Islands and Sumatra," by 

 Harry C. Oberholser; "New diptera from Panama" and "Three 

 new species of Pipunculidae (Diptera) from Panama," by J. R. Mal- 

 loch; "New species of landshells from the Panama Canal Zone," 

 by William H. Dall; "Report on freshwater Copepoda from Panama, 

 with descriptions of new species," by C. Dwight Marsh; "Notes on 

 American species of Peripatus, with a list of known forms" and 

 "The crinoids of the Natural History Museum at Hamburg," by 



