232 Field Museum of Natural History — Reports, Vol. X 



DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS 



The distribution of publications, as in previous years, was 

 about equally divided between foreign and domestic institutions 

 from which Field Museum in turn receives publications for its 

 Library. 



An increase in both foreign and domestic exchanges was made, 

 thirty-five names having been added to the mailing lists. The total 

 number of books sent on exchange was 6,146, of which 4,941 were 

 copies of scientific publications and 1,205 were leaflets. The 

 Museum also sent 3,879 complimentary copies of the Annual Report 

 of the Director for the year 1933, and 696 leaflets, to Members of 

 the institution. Sales for the year show totals of 420 publications, 

 9,166 leaflets, and 7,850 miscellaneous publications and pamphlets 

 — guides, handbooks, and memoirs. 



Grateful acknowledgment is tendered the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, at Washington, D.C., for its cordial cooperation in distributing 

 Field Museum publications which were sent to the international 

 exchange bureau to be forwarded to foreign destinations. 



For future sales and exchanges, 14,301 copies of the various 

 publications and leaflets issued during 1934 were wrapped into 291 

 packages, labeled, and stored in the stock room. 



Published early in the autumn, a season when so many people 

 are especially interested in trees and weeds, the reference book on 

 North American Trees and the leaflet on Common Weeds have been 

 greatly in demand. Amateur botanists, teachers, students, and 

 others interested in the plants local to the Chicago region, and in 

 trees native to this country, have found these well-illustrated books 

 to be of much use. 



Fairly wide distribution also has been given a leaflet issued last 

 June, which describes and illustrates the sculptures by Herbert 

 Haseltine of champion domestic animals of Great Britain, presented 

 to the Museum through the generosity of Mr. Marshall Field. 



Interest in the living races of mankind and in prehistoric man 

 continued to manifest itself in the numerous purchases of copies of 

 the Races of Mankind and Prehistoric Man leaflets. These two 

 books, published in the summer of 1933, when the exhibition halls 

 to which they relate were first opened to the public, have been 

 quite as popular as they were during the year they were issued. 

 More than 3,100 copies were sold in 1934. 



Early in the summer the Museum added to the various items 

 on display and sale at its leaflet and post card stands a pocket size 



