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Austin H. Clark; "Rubebul cotton: A new species of Gossypimn 

 from Guatemala," "Kokia: A new genus of Hawaiian trees" and 

 "The cotton of the Hopi Indians: A new species of Gossypiiun," by 

 Frederick L. Lewton; "Saffordia, a new genus of ferns from Peru," 

 by William R. Maxon; "A recent meteorite fall near Holbrook, 

 Navajo County, Arizona," by George P. Merrill; "New York Pots- 

 dam — Hoyt-Fauna" and "Group terms for the Lower and Upper 

 Cambrian series of formations," by Charles D. Walcott; "Notice of 

 the occurrence of a Pleistocene camel north of the Arctic Circle" 

 and "An extinct American eland," by James WilUams Gidley; "A 

 new dinosaur from the Lance formation of Wyoming," by Charles 

 W. Gilmore; "The recognition of Pleistocene faunas" and "Descrip- 

 tion of the skull of an extinct horse, found m central Alaska," by 

 Ohver P. Hay; and "A fossil toothed cetacean from California, rep- 

 resenting a new genus and species," by Frederick W. True. 



In accordance with a provision of the Legislative, Executive, and 

 Judicial Act approved August 23, 1912, the work of wrapping, label- 

 ing, and despatching aU Museum publications, previously performed 

 by the Museum, was, on October 1, transferred to the direction of the 

 PubHc Printer, and has since been conducted by the Superintendent 

 of Documents, This change, however, has not affected the responsi- 

 bility and discretion of the Museum in regard to the mailing Hsts, 

 which, together with aU special orders, are transmitted to the Super- 

 intendent of Documents through its office of correspondence. In 

 addition to the pubhcations, the editorial ofiice also has charge of all 

 miscellaneous printing and binding, the former including a consider- 

 able variety of work, in connection with which the labels for the 

 collections figure most conspicuously. 



LIBRARY. 



The Museum library is wholly technical in character and restricted 

 to the class of works needed for the study and classification of the 

 collections, but owing to the great diversity of the latter it is required 

 to cover a wide range of subjects in the sciences and the arts and 

 industries. Originating in the gift by Prof. Spencer F. Baird, the 

 second Secretary of the Institution, of his scientific Hbrary, it has 

 attained considerable size and importance though never approached 

 the standard of completeness that would make it even fairly effective; 

 and, despite the opportunity of drawing upon several other large 

 Government libraries and that of the Smithsonian Institution, the 

 work of the Museum has often been seriously inconvenienced and 

 delayed by the lack of books which are not to be found in Washington. 

 The annual purchase fund has been inadequate to satisfy more than a 

 very limited part of the demands. The principal resom^ce in this 



