REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1909. 51 



PUBLICATIONS, 



The jDublications issued during the year consisted of the annual 

 report for 1908, volumes 34 and 35 and part of volume 36 of the Pro- 

 ceedings, Bulletins 62, 63 and 64, and 7 parts of two volumes of Con- 

 tributions from the National Herbarium. Volume 34 of the Proceed- 

 ings contained 17 papers; volume 35, 28 papers; and the uncompleted 

 volume 36, 35 papers; a total of 80 papers, all of which were sepa- 

 rately printed- and distributed in small advance editions for the early 

 information of si^ecialists. 



The titles of the bulletins were as follows : Xo. 62, " Catalogue of 

 the Type-Specimens of Mammals in the United States National 

 Museum, including the Biological Survey Collection," by Marcus W. 

 Lj'On, jr., and Wilfred H. Osgood; No. 63, "A Monographic Revision 

 of the Coleoptera Belonging to the Tenebrionide Tribe Eleodiini 

 Inhabiting the United States, Lower California, and Adjacent 

 Islands," by Frank E. Blaisdell, sr. ; and No. 64, ''A Critical Sum- 

 mary of Troost's Unpublished ^lanuscript on the Crinoids of Ten- 

 nessee," by Miss Elvira Wood, of Columbia University, New York. 



The following papers appeared as parts of Volumes XII and XIII 

 of the Contributions from the National Herbarium : Volume XII. — 

 Part 4, " The Mexican and Central American Species of Sapium," by 

 Henry Pittier ; Part 5, " New or Noteworthy Plants from Colombia 

 and Central America," by Henry Pittier ; Part 6, " Catalogue of the 

 Grasses of Cuba," by A. S. Hitchcock ; Part 7, " Studies of Mexican 

 and Central American Plants, No. 6," by J. N. Rose; Part 8, "The 

 Allioniacea3 of the United States, with Notes on Mexican Species," by 

 Paul C. Standley ; and Part 9, " Miscellaneous Papers," containing 

 '• Thompsonella, a New Genus of Crassulacese from Mexico," by N. L. 

 Britton and J. N. Rose; "Rediscovery of Echeveria Carnicolor," 

 " Three New Species of Crassulacese from Guatemala," " Rediscovery 

 of Cereus Nudiflorus," "A Species of Pereskia from Guatemala," 

 " New Species of Opuntia from Arizona," " Echinocereus Baileyi, a 

 New Cactus from Oklahoma," " Nopalea Lutea, a New Cactus from 

 Guatemala," "Conzattia, a New Genius of Ca^salpiniacese," and "Two 

 New Species of Acacia of the Series Filicina^," all by J. N. Rose ; and 

 "A New Spleenwort from China," by William R. Maxon. Volume 

 XIII. — Part 1, " Studies of Tropical American Ferns, No. 2," by 

 William R. Maxon. 



In addition to the above, 9 papers based upon Museum material, 

 the majority of which were by members of the Museum staff, were 

 published in the Quarterly Issue of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous 

 Collections. Several papers which had appeared in publications of 

 previous years and for which there is still a constant demand were 

 reprinted. 



