KEPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



57 



Classified list of subjects. 



Geology and mineralogy 



Paleontology 



Botany 



MoUusks 



Crustaceans 



Insects 



Arachnids 



Miscellaneous invertebrates. 

 Fishes 



Reptiles and batrachians 



Birds 



Mammals 



General zoology 



Physical anthropology 



Archeology 



Ethnolog}' 



Photography 



Museum history and administration. 



Total 



Papers 



by 

 museum 

 officers. 



Papers 

 by other 

 investi- 

 gators. 



Total. 



4 



19 



40 



15 



12 



47 



2 



18 



17 



6 



35 



7 



1 



5 



4 



4 



1 



9 



Permission was granted b}^ the Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution during the year for printing the following papers, based 

 on Museum material, in publications other than those under the 

 control of the Institution, all of which, excepting one, were issued 

 before June 30: 



Bassler, K. S.: 



Cement materials of the Valley of Virginia. Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. No. 260, 1904, 

 pp. 531-544, figs. 23, 24. (June, 1905.) 

 House, Homer D. : 



Notes on New Jersey violets. Bull. Torrey Botan. C-lub, xxxii, no. 5, May, 1905, 



pp. 253-260, pis. 16-18. 

 Further notes on the orchids of central New York. (Not yet published.) 

 Maxon, William R.: 



A new Asplenium from Mexico. Bull. Torrey Botan. Club, xxxi, no. 12, Dec, 1904, 



pp. 657, 658. (Jan. 9, 1905.) 

 On the names of three Jamaican species of Polypodium. Bull. Torrey Botan. Club, 



xxxii, no. 2, Feb., 1905, pp. 73-75. (March 22, 1905.) 

 A new Botrychium from Jamaica. Bull. Torrey Botan. Club, xxxii, no. 4, April, 



1905, pp. 219-222, pi. vi. (May 6, 1905.) 

 Adenoderris, a valid genus of ferns. Botan. Gazette, xxxix, no. 8, May 20, 1905, 

 pp. 366-369, text figs. 1, 2. 

 Merrill, George P.: 



On the origin of veins of asbestiform serpentine. Bull. Geol. Soc. America, xvi, 1905, 

 pp. 131-136. 

 Stejneger, Leonhard: 



A snake new to the District of Columbia. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xviii, Feb. 21, 1905, 

 pp. 75-78. 



Besides the publications, the editorial office has also had charge 

 of all the miscellaneous printing for the Museum, a very consider- 



