REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 47 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
The work of the office of correspondence has been kept well in hand, 
notwithstanding the increased demands made upon the oflice, which 
not only has to do with the receipt and answering of letters in gen- 
eral but is also charged with the distribution of the Museum publica- 
tions. Of the 8 volumes and 80 separate papers issued during the 
year, about 24,000 copies of the former and 34,000 of the latter were 
supplied to the scientific establishments, libraries, and individuals 
entered on the permanent mailing list. About 14,000 publications 
were sent out in response to special request, and some 34,000 copies 
were distributed in sets to many scientific and educational institutions 
in different parts of the country. 
PUBLICATIONS AND PRINTING. 
Eight volumes of publications were issued during the year, though 
the composition and printing of a part of them was begun in 1905, 
These volumes were as follows: The Annual Report for the fiscal year 
ending June 30, 1904, containing, besides the administrative part, 
three scientific papers entitled ‘* Contributions to the History of 
American Geology,” by George P. Merrill, *‘ The 8. S. Howland Collec- 
tion of Buddhist religious art in the National Museum,” by Immanuel 
M. Casanowicz, and ‘* Flint Implements of the Fayum, Egypt,” by 
Heywood Walter Seton-Karr; volumes 28, 29, and 30 of the Proceed- 
ings of the Museum, comprising 97 descriptive papers, 25 of which 
were issued in separate form before the beginning of the year; Part I 
of Bulletin 53, entitled ‘*‘ Catalogue of the type specimens of fossil 
invertebrates in the department of geology, United States National 
Museum,” by Charles Schuchert, assisted by W. H. Dall, T. W. 
Stanton, and R. 8. Bassler; Bulletin 54, ‘‘ A Monograph on the Iso- 
pods of North America,” by Harriet Richardson; Bulletin 55, ‘‘A 
Contribution to the Oceanography of the Pacific,” by James M. Flint; 
Part 5 of Bulletin 39, entitled ** Directions for collecting information 
and objects illustrating the history of medicine,” by James M. Flint; 
and Part 1 of Volume X of the Contributions from the National Her- 
barium, entitled ‘*‘ North American Species of Festuca,” by Charles VY. 
Piper. 
Of the papers contained in the Proceedings and the Annual Report, 
separates in editions of 600 to 1,000 were printed for supplying special- 
ists, whereby the distribution of the publications was greatly extended. 
These separates together with the bulletins related to 81 subjects as 
follows: Administration, 1; physical anthropology, 1; archeology, 1; 
historic religions, 1; medicine, 1; mammals, 5; birds, 3; reptiles and 
