8 Director'' s Anmial Report. 



in the Investigator, and Bligh's Mutiny of the Bounty. These 

 volumes all but complete the long series in the Library referring to 

 the subject. 



Considerable active study and investigation by the departments 

 of Ornithology and Ichth3'ology called for a fuller representation 

 of books pertaining to such studies, and complete sets of the Ibis 

 and Auk being offered for sale in London they were purchased, as 

 well as a set of the Journal fiir Ornithologie in Berlin. To aid the 

 determination of the fishes Bleeker's Atlas Ichthyologique in nine 

 folio volumes was purchased ; and from the United States Fish 

 Commission and Dr. O. P. Jenkins, the Fishes of Puerto Rico by 

 Evermann and Marsh, with several other pamphlets published b)^ 

 the Commission have been gladly received. 



Few works relating to Ethnology and Anthropology were 

 added during the ^-ear as compared with 1900, when files of publi- 

 cations from several European societies were purchased. The 

 Societa Italiana di Antropologia e Etnologia was among those 

 whose early publications were bought, and has completed its set in 

 the Museum by adding the four volumes of most recent date. 

 Several institutions with whom exchange of publications has been 

 condu(fted have very kindly contributed many of their early vol- 

 umes not due the Museum by right of exchange, and a grateful 

 acknowledgment is tendered the Cambridge Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Field 

 Columbian Museum, Royal Societ}' of A^ictoria (Australia), and 

 the Real Academia de Ciencias y Artes de Barcelona for these 

 appreciated gifts. 



Books have also been received from Henr}' C. Carter, Esq., of 

 New York, who has presented many books long out of print con- 

 cerning this region; the Hon. Charles R. Bishop, the U. S. Treas- 

 ury Department, U. S. Department of Agriculture, the U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey, and other individuals and institutions mentioned 

 in the accompanying li.st of acquisitions. To the list of exchanges 

 man}' new names were added, and it is pleasing to remark the in- 

 crease of offers from other scientific bodies to exchange pviblica- 

 tions. The exchange list is appended. 



The condition of the books is good although continually 

 threatened by inroads of insects which breed uninterruptedly in 

 our even climate, and considerable difficulty is experienced in 



