56 REPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1905. 



''Botany of Western Texas," by John M. Coulter, and "Systematic 

 and Geographic Botany, and Aboriginal Uses of Plants," by Messrs. 

 Coulter, Rose, Cook, and Chesnut. 



Owing to the continuous demand for certain papers issued in past 

 years, the first editions of which had become exhausted, the following 

 have been reprinted: "Cradles of the American Aborigines," by 

 Otis T. Mason, from the Report for 1887; "The Extermination of 

 the American Bison, with a sketch of its Discovery and Life History," 

 by William T. Hornaday, from the Report for 1887; "The Expedi- 

 tion to Funk Island, with Observations upon the History and 

 Anatomy of the Great Auk," by Frederic A. Lucas, from the Report 

 for 1888; "Fire-making Apparatus in the U. S. National Museum," 

 by Walter Hough, from the Report for 1888; "White-line Engraving 

 or Relief-printing in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries," by 

 S. R. Koehler, from the Report for 1890; "Japanese Wood-cutting 

 and Wood-cut Printing," by T. Tokuno, from the Report for 1892; 

 "Contributions to Philippine Ornithology — Part I, A list of the 

 birds known to inhabit the Philippine and Palawan Islands, showing 

 their distribution within the limits of the two groups," by Dean C. 

 Worcester and Frank S. Bourns; " Part II, Notes on the distribution 

 of Philippine birds," by Dean C. Worcester, from volume 20 of the 

 Proceedings. 



In addition there were also reprinted Parts B, G, D, E, F, J, K, L, 

 O, P, of Bulletin 39, containing, respectively, directions for collecting 

 recent and fossil plants, birds' eggs, reptiles and batrachians, insects, 

 fossils, scale insects, dragon flies, stone flies, and May flies; and also 

 notes on the preparation of rough skeletons, instructions for obtaining 

 information concerning the aboriginal uses of plants, and directions 

 for collectors of basketry. 



In the list of publications on page 111 will be found the titles of 

 those papers published during the year which are based, directly or 

 indirectly, on the collections of the Museum. The list includes 246 

 titles, the number of authors represented being 90. The following 

 table shows the subjects to which these papers relate: 



