60 EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1908. 



physical anthropology, 1 ; mammals, 22; birds, 11; reptiles and batra- 

 chians, 8 ; fishes, 25 ; insects, 41 ; mollusks, 24 ; other marine inverte- 

 brates, 42; helminthology, 9; plants, 12; geology and mineralogy, G; 

 fossils, 14 ; fine arts, 1 ; biography, ?> ; bibliography, 2. 



In addition to the editorial work in connection with the publica- 

 tions, the editor also has charge of the other printing for the Museum, 

 including labels, blanks, etc., and of the binding, all of which is done 

 by the Government Printing Office. 



LIBRARY. 



The Museum library has continued to receive from Prof. O. T. 

 Mason and Dr. C. A. White many gifts of scientific jDublications 

 which are of great value in completing sets and filling in the series 

 of authors' sej^arates, and Mr. William Schaus has again added ma- 

 terially to the sectional library of the division of insects. Dr.- Charles 

 W. Richmond has presented another installment of books and pamph- 

 lets, including many of the Thunberg dissertations, which are for the 

 most part rare and difficult to obtain and of which he is endeavoring 

 to complete the set. The library has also been benefited by the plan 

 adopted by the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature of 

 sending to authors lists of their scientific writings that have been 

 entered in the catalogue and requesting any that have not been cited, 

 whereby many separates from periodicals, journals, etc., have been 

 acquired. 



There are now in the library 33,504 volumes, 52,112 unbound papers, 

 and 108 manuscripts. The additions during the year consisted of 

 3,257 books, 4,470 pamphlets, and 247 parts of volumes. One thou- 

 sand books, 2,257 complete volumes of periodicals, and 4,056 pamph- 

 lets were catalogued, and 1,086 books were sent to the Government 

 Printing Office for binding. The number of books, periodicals, and 

 pamphlets borrowed from the general library was 29,242, while the 

 number assigned to sectional libraries was 10,314. 



PHOTOGRAPHY. 



The photographic laboratory, which is one of the best equipped for 

 its purpose in the country, has for its object the preparation of illus- 

 trations for the publications of the Museum, for the manuscript 

 records of important collections, and for the exhibition halls, and of 

 copies of plans relating to details of construction in connection with 

 the buildings, furniture, etc. The number of negatives made during 

 the year was 1,328; of silver and velox prints, 3,615; of blueprints, 

 6,447 ; and of bromide enlargements, 28. Seventy-four rolls of films 

 taken in the field were also developed. 



