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The scientific publications of the National Museum include two 

 series, known, respectively, as Proceedings and Bulletin. 



The Proceedings series, begun in 1878, is intended primarily as a 

 medium for the publication of original papers, based on the collections 

 of the National Museum, that set forth newly acquired facts in biology, 

 anthropology, and geology, with descriptions of new forms and revi- 

 sions of limited groups. Copies of each paper, in pamphlet form, are 

 distributed as published to libraries and scientific organizations and 

 to specialists and others interested in the different subjects. The 

 dates at which these separate papers are published are recorded in 

 the table of contents of each of the volumes. 



The present volume is the eightieth of this series. 



The series of Bulletins, the first of which was issued in 1875, con- 

 tains separate publications comprising monographs of large zoological 

 groups and other general systematic treatises (occasionally in several 

 volumes), faunal works, reports of expeditions, catalogues of type 

 specimens and special collections, and other material of similar nature. 

 The majority of the volumes are octavo in size, but a quarto size has 

 been adopted in a few instances in which large plates were regarded as 

 indispensable. In the Bulletin series appear volumes under the head- 

 ing Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, in octavo 

 form, published by the National Museum siace 1902, wliich contain 

 papers relating to the botanical collections of the Museum. 



Alexander Wetmore, 

 Assistant Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. 



Washington, D. C, September 21, 1932. 



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