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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 biol- 

 ogy, anthropology, and geology, with descriptions of new forms and 

 revisions 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 eighty-fourth of this series. 



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

 separate publications comprising monographs of large zoological 

 groups and other general systematic treatises (occasionally in several 

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

 specimens, 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 J rom the United States National Herbarium, in octavo 

 form, published by the National Museum since 1902, which contain 

 papers relating to the botanical collections of the Museum. 



Alexander Wetmore, 

 Assistant Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. 



Washington, D. C, May 2, 1938. 



