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als, Rocks, and Ores contained in the Dei)artnient of Geology; " No. 

 56, part 1; "Mannnals of the Mexican Boun(hirv of the United 

 States, by Maj. Edgar A. Mearns, surgeon. U. S. Army;" No. 57, 

 " Tlie faniilii's and genera of Bats, by (Jerrit S. Miller, jr.;" and 

 Volume XI of the Contributions from the U. S. National Herba- 

 rium, devoted entirely to a description of the " Flora of the State of 

 Washington," by ^Ir. Chai-les \'. Piper, of tlu' V. S, Department of 

 Agriculture. 



The parts of volumes published were reprints of Parts A and G 

 of Bulletin No. 30, being directions for collecting birds and mollusks, 

 resi)ectively ; a supi)lement to Bulletin No. 51, being a list of the 

 publications of the Museum from 1901 to 190G, and three parts of 

 Volume X of the Contributions from the National Herbarium, as 

 follows: Part 2, "The genus Ptelea in the western and southwestern 

 United States and ISIexico," by Dr. Edward L. Greene; Part 3, 

 " Studies of jMexican and Central American plants," by Dr. J. N. 

 Rose, being the report of his botanical researches on a fifth trip to 

 Mexico in the interest of the division of plants; Part 4. " Legumi- 

 nos.T of Porto Rico," by Dr. Janet Perkins. ' 



The following Bulletins were in print at the close of the year, but 

 were not bound and i-eady for distribution until in July: No. 50, 

 Part IV. of the ''Birds of North and Middle America," by Robert 

 Ridgway: No. 58, " Herpetologv of Japan and adjacent territory," 

 by Leonhard Stejneger; No. 59. "Recent Madreporaria of the Ha- 

 waiian Islands and Laysan," by 'V. Wayland \'^uighan. 



In addition to the abo\e. twelve short pajiers descriptive of Mu- 

 seum material, mainly by members of its staff. Avere ])ublished in the 

 Quarterly Issue of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Four 

 were on mammals, one on reptiles, one on luollnsks. one on mosquitoes, 

 three on botany, one on Brazilian Indians, and one faunal. Permis- 

 sion was also granted for the printing elsewhere than in the publica- 

 tions of the Institution and Museum of seven jiapers of a similar 

 character. 



The 10() scientific papers mentioned above may l)e classified by 

 subjects as follows: ]Manmials, 22; birds, 3; reptiles and bactrach- 

 ians, 3; fishes. 19; insects, 8; mollusks, 9; crustaceans. 8; helmin- 

 thology, 2; echinoderms, 4; corals. 1; comparative anatomy, 2; 

 botany, 7; fauna. 1 : geology, 3: meteorites, 4; fossils, 9; ethnology, 

 1. They are cited in full in the Bibliography at the end of this 

 report. 



I-IMHAHV. 



The Museum has been fortunate in continuing to receive from Prof. 

 (). 'I\ Mason. Dr. C. A. White, antl Dr. AV. L. Ralph many scientific 



