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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919. 



Belote, Theodoee T. — Continued. 



This article outlines thie ac- 

 tivities of the Museum in con- 

 nection with the War Collections. 

 The illustrations are all from the 

 original objects belonging to the 

 Museum collection. 



Benjamin, Marcus. Richard Rath- 

 bun. 



Science (n. s.) vol. 48, no. 



1236, Sept. 6, 1918, pp. 



231-235, portrait. 



A brief biography of the lata 



Assistant Secretary in charge of 



the National Museum. 



Court costumes worn by 



American Diplomats. 



Daughters Amer. Rev. 



Mag., vol. 52, no. 11, 



Nov., 1918, pp. 638-645. 



A brief description of the 



various types of official costumes 



worn by American representatives 



in foreign countries. 



Berry, Edward W. Fossil plants from 

 the Late Tertiary of Oklahoma. 



Proe. U. S. Nai. Mus., vol. 

 54, no. 2256, Nov. 19, 

 1918, pp. 627-636, pis. 

 94, 95. 

 Six determinable species, of 

 which four are new, and three ad- 

 ditional forms that are generically 

 but not specifically recognizable, 

 are here described. All of the 

 forms appear to have been alluvial 

 species of river bottoms and most 

 of them have their genera still 

 represented in the valleys of the 

 principal streams that enter 

 Oklahoma from the Coastal Plain 

 of the Gulf States. The author 

 regards their age as upper 

 Miocene. 



The fossil higher plants from 



the Canal Zone. 



Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 



103, Jan. 11, 1919, pp. 



15-44, pis. 12-18. 

 The fossil flora at present 

 known from the Canal Zone is ex- 

 tremely limited and entirely too 

 small for either purposes of exact 

 correlation or for deductions con- 

 cerning the true botanical fades 

 or the environmental conditions. 

 The author, however, is not in- 

 clined to consider any of the 

 plants described in the present 

 paper, with the exception of one 

 Eocene species, as younger thaa 

 Burdigalian nor older than San- 



Berry, Edward W. — Continued. 



noisian. Seventeen species, 14 of 

 which are new, are determined, 

 and two or three additional forms 

 are tentatively recognized. The 

 types are in the collections of the 

 U. S. National Museum and Johns 

 Hopkins University. 



Miocene fossil plants from 



northern Peru. 



Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 

 55, no. 2270, Apr. 28, 

 1919, pp. 279-294, pis. 

 14-17. 

 Based upon a small collection 

 of fossil plants obtained by C. 

 F. Winslow in 1875, near Tumbez, 

 Peru. The described species num- 

 ber 14, of which are only pro- 

 visional identifications and 5 are 

 new. The author is disposed to 

 consider the age to be Burdigalian. 

 The principal interest in the paper 

 is the decisive evidence furnished 

 of the very different climatic con- 

 ditions formerly existing in this 

 desert region, and the rather far- 

 reaching correlations which it is 

 possible to make. 



BiGELOw, Henry B. Contributions to 

 the biology of the Philippine Archi- 

 pelago and adjacent regions : Hydro- 

 medusae, Siphonophores, and Cteno- 

 phores of the Albatross Philippine 

 Expedition. 



Bull. V. 8. Nat. Mus., no. 

 100, pt. 5, May 22, 1919, 

 pp. 279-362. pis. 39-43. 

 Presents an exhaustive sys- 

 tematic report on the Hydrome- 

 dusae, Siphonophores, and Cteno- 

 phores of the Philippines and ad- 

 jacent regions treating of 52 

 species, one varietal form of which 

 is new to science, and including a 

 discussion of the zoogeographie 

 distribution of this faunal area. 



The types and additional ma- 

 terial of this collection are in the 

 U. S. National Museum ; a first set 

 of duplicate specimens is in the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



Blakk, S. F. Revision of Ichthyo- 



methia, a genus of plants used for 



poisoning fish. 



Journ. Washington Acdd. 

 8ci., vol. 9, no. 9, May 

 4, 1919, pp. 241-252. 

 The types of the new species de- 

 scribed are in the National Her- 

 barium. 



