Publications of the United States National Aiuseum 



The scholarly and scientific publications of the United States National Museum include two series, 

 Proceedings of the United States National Museum and United States National Museum Bulletin. 



In these series the Museum publishes original articles and monographs dealing with the collections and work 

 of its constituent museums — The Museum of Natural History and the Museum of History and Technology — 

 setting forth newly acquired facts in the fields of Anthropology, Biology, History, Geology, and Technology. 

 Copies of each publication are distributed to libraries, to cultural and scientific organizations, and to specialists 

 and others interested in the different subjects. 



The Proceedings, begun in 1878, are intended for the publication, in separate form, of shorter papers from 

 the Museum of Natural History. These are gathered in volumes, octavo in size, with the publication date of 

 each paper recorded in the table of contents of the volume. 



In the Bulletin series, the first of which was issued in 1875, appear longer, separate publications consisting 

 of monographs (occasionally in several parts) and volumes in which are collected works on related subjects. 

 Bulletins are either octavo or quarto in size, depending on the needs of the presentation. Since 1902 papers 

 relating to the botanical collections of the Museum of Natural History have been published in the Bulletin 

 series under the heading Contributions Jrom the United States National Herbarium, and since 1959, in Bulletins 

 titled "Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology," have been gathered shorter papers 

 relating to the collections and research of that Museum. 



This work, the result of cooperation with the Mariners' Museum, the Stefansson Library, the Museum of 

 the American Indian, Heye Foundation, and the American Museum of Natural History, forms number 230 

 of the Bulletin series. 



Frank A. Taylor 

 Director, United States National Aiuseum 



U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

 WASHINGTON : 1964 



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