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There are now on hand 1,667 lantern slides, classified by lectures 

 as follows: 



Total Number of 



Department. number Illustrated 



of Slides. Lectures. 



Anthropology, 264 slides. 12 



Botany, 492 " 10 



Geology, ♦. . • 477 " U 



Zoology, 327 " 14 



General, 107 " 3 



1,667 slides. 



Publications. — In typographical appearance and in the character 

 of the illustrations the publications of the museum have been more 

 satisfactory than in any previous year, and the requests for exchange 

 from corresponding institutions and from individuals who publish 

 have been very numerous and from complimentary sources. The 

 following list is presented, giving the titles of publications since 

 the date of the last report, with the number of pages and illus- 

 trations: 



Pub. 29. — Report Ser., Vol. i, No. 4. "Annual Report of the Direc- 

 tor." 82 pages, edition 2,500, illustrations 13. 



Pub. 30 — Zool. Ser., Vol. i, No. 11. '< Preliminary Descriptions of 

 New Rodents from the Olympic Mountains." ByD. G. 

 Elliot. 4 pages, edition 1,000, no illustrations. 



Pub. 31. — Zool. Ser., Vol. i. No. 12. "Notes on a Collection of 

 Cold-Blooded Vertebrates from the Olympic Moun- 

 tains." By S. E. Meek. 12 pages, edition 1,000, no 

 illustrations. 



Pub. 32. — Zool. Ser., Vol. i, No. 13. " Catalogue of Mammals from 

 the Olympic Mountains, Washington, with Descriptions 

 of New Species." By D. G. Elliot. Pages 36, edition 

 1,000, 49 illustrations. 



Pub. 33. — Geol. Ser., Vol. i. No. 3. "The Ores of Colombia, from 

 Mines in Operation in 1892." By Henry Windsor 

 Nichols. Pages 51, edition 1,000, illustration i. 



Pub. 34.— Geol. Ser., Vol. i. No. 4. "The Mylagaulida?: An Ex- 

 tinct Family of Sciuromorph Rodents." By Elmer S. 

 Riggs. Pages 8, edition 1,000, illustrations 2. 



