FlKLU COLUMHIAN Ml l\EIH)kTS, Voi.. I. 



Id I'rcss aiul i 'reparation: 

 Antliropol. Scr. , Vol. i, No. i, I't. i. Mudus .\tuunK the .\iicicnt 

 Cities of >f-- • ■■' 

 \V. II. H«»lin. ' lAtorof Anthropology. 

 Anthropol. Si-r.. \'o|. i, No. i. Pt. a. Stmlics .Anioni; the .Ancient 

 Cities of M«-\ 

 W. H. Holmes, i. ur.itor ut .\iiiiii<>i'"i<>^n . 



Zoo! ^- • Vol. I, No. I. ^*- "■ hral Column of ,\mia. 



O. I*. Hay, A i Curator of ichthyology. 



Bot. Ser.. Vol. i. No. 2. Flora of West N'ir^inia. 



Charles Frederick Millspaui;h and L. \V. Nuttall. 



I 'our of the Museum publications have already been distributed. 

 Ihu scientific institutions to whom the publications have been sent 

 were' selected with special reference fust, to their prominence and 

 si/e; second, ability to send in exchnnRc publications of scientific 

 value, third, caj^crness for the publications. The following state- 

 ment shows the distribution in this country: Trustees, 15; Staff, 13; 

 Corporate Members, 56; Annual Members, 723. General — Museums, 

 16; Scientific Societies, 62: Universities, Schools and Colleges, 67; 

 Libraries, i2i. Special — Anthropology, 21; Botany, 81; Geology, 114; 

 History, 20; lndu«^trial .Vrts. 21: Transportation, 16; Zoology, 16. 

 (Note. Only Botanical, (ieological and Historical series have 

 been issued). Acknowledgments for these publications have been 

 received from the ablest scientists and their words of commendation 

 an .» •<>>irce of much gratification to the Museum. The (juotation of 

 a ce or two from the letters of professors of the leading uni- 



versities of the country will be partlonetl. • 1 am very much gratified 

 to see the strong movement the Museum is making in the line of 

 scientific publications of a high order." '• I wish to congratulate the 

 I'leld Columbian Museum on issuing. such a publication." " It is ver) 

 n* ottcn out and will have considerable value aside from a mere 



cataiugue of the collections. Your plates are particularly good." 



" An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Field Colum- 

 bian Museum," was sent by mail soon after issuance to the principal 

 museums and scientific institutions of foreign countries. Since that 

 time the Museum has availed itself of the privileges of the Bureau 

 of International Exchanges of the Smithsonian Institution, by which 

 means packages of literature can be forwarded to any foreign ad<lress 

 without charge to the Museum, l>eyond that of delivery to the Smith- 

 sonian Institution at Washington. The foreign list of the Museum 

 as far as made up comprises: General — Museums, 58; Libraries, 2; 

 A' ' '-"'--. 11; Institutes, 4: journals, 9; Schools, 9: Societies. 43. 

 S ithrotmloev. Ti: Bot.in\. in: drolocv. Tio: Industrial 



