150 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1914. 



" To the National Museum or to the Smithsonian Institution as my 

 Executor shall deem best any pictures or books not otherwise dis- 

 posed of, which they may desire." 



By further terms of the will the Smithsonian Institution is made 

 the residuary legatee in a certain trust estate, which, when released, 

 is to constitute a trust fund Imown as "'The Spencer Fullerton 

 Baird Fund,' the interest from which shall be devoted under the 

 direction of the Smithsonian Institution to the expenses, in whole or 

 in part, of scientific and biological research or for the purchase of 

 specimens of natural objects or archeological specimens." The Mu- 

 seum may expect to benefit from expenditures from this fund. Under 

 the article above quoted the Museum received early in the year from 

 the executor of the estate of Miss Baird several hundred objects, com- 

 prising books, engravings and paintings, pottery, glassware, bronzes, 

 photographs, historical objects, and personal relics of Prof. Baird, 

 the last including a gold and a silver medal which had been presented 

 to him in recognition of his important work in fish culture. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



The number of volumes issued during the year was 14, and of sep- 

 arate papers, 58. The former consisted of the annual reports of the 

 Museum for 1912 and 1913 ; volumes 44, 45, and 4G of the Proceed- 

 ings; and the following Bulletins, namely: No. 50, Part VI, "The 

 Birds of North and Middle America," by Kobert Ridgway, containing 

 descriptions of the woodpeckers, barbets, toucans, puff birds, jaca- 

 mars, kingfishers, todies, motmots, goatsuckers, potoos, barn owls, 

 and eared owls; No. 71, "A monograph of the Foraminifera of the 

 North Pacific Ocean, Part III, Lagenidoe," and "Part IV, Chilo- 

 stomellidse, Globigerinid?e, Nummulitidse," by Joseph A. Cushman; 

 No. 80, "A descriptive account of the building recently erected for 

 the departments of natural history of the United States National 

 Museum," by Eichard Rathbun ; No. 83, " Type species of the genera 

 of Ichneumon flies," by Henry L. Viereck ; No. 84, "A contribution 

 to the study of the Ophiurans of the United States National Mu- 

 seum," by Eene Koehler ; No. 85, "A monograph of the jumping plant- 

 lice or PsyllidcT of the New World," by David L. Crawford; No. 86, 

 "A monograph of the genus Chordeiles Swainson, type of a new fam- 

 ily of goatsuckers," by Harry C. Oberholser ; and No. 87, " Culture of 

 the ancient Pueblos of the Upper Gila River region. New Mexico and 

 Arizona" (Second Museum-Gates Expedition), by Walter Hough. 

 Bulletin No. 67, entitled "Directions for collecting and preserving 

 insects," by Nathan Banks, was reprinted in a limited edition to meet 

 the continuous demand for this popular pamphlet of instructions. 



Of the 58 papers issued separately for prompt distribution to spe- 

 cialists, 5 were from volume 45, 35 from volume 46, and 9 from 



