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quartos and contain extensive articles on many subjects, and most 

 are fully illustrated. Volumes vi and vm are now in progress. Each 

 volume contains from five hundred to six hundred pages. 



Volume I of the Occasional Papers appeared in 1869. This volume 

 contained largely entomological correspondence. Volume n con- 

 tained the writings of Nicholas Marcellus Hentz on the Arachnida. 

 Volumes in and iv contain a treatment of the Geology of eastern 

 Massachusetts and the Geology of the Boston Basin by W. S. Crosby. 

 Volume vi is a list of North American Orthoptera by Samuel H. 

 Scudder. Volume vn,now in progress, contains faunal lists of verte- 

 brates and invertebrates of New England. Volume v, now in prog- 

 ress, is devoted to descriptions of new species and shorter reviews 

 of genera, species, etc. 



Twenty-three numbers of the Museum and Library Bulletin 

 were published from 1906 to 1914. These contain notes about work 

 in the Museum, progress of the Library, and short popular articles 

 on Natural History. 



This function was taken over by the Bulletin in 1915. This is an 

 octavo, popular, illustrated quarterly of New England Natural His- 

 tory. Each number contains from sixteen to thirty-two pages. These 

 are distributed to all members. A new series of publications, the 

 Natural History Guides was started this summer with the appear- 

 ance of GuideNo. 1 on The Snakes ofNeiv England. This is a small, 

 popular, low-priced handbook which enables one to identify New 

 England snakes. An extensive list of subjects is planned which will 

 be embodied in future numbers of this series. 



The Proceedings, Memoirs, and Occasioned Papers, and the Natu- 

 ral History Guides are published at irregular intervals. Publication 

 of the Proceedings was begun in 1841, of the 3Iemoirs inl866, and 

 of the Occasional Papers in 1869. Most of the early volumes of 



