REPOET OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY, 



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111 the following table the publications above mentioned are grouped 

 by subjects: 



B}" permission of the Secretaiy the following twelve papers, pre- 

 pared by members of the staff and relating to material in the posses- 

 sion of the Museum, were printed in publications other than those of 

 the National Museum, namel}-: New Species of Plants from Mexico, by 

 C. L. Pollard (published in the Proceedings of the Biological Society 

 of Washington); An overlooked specimen of Chilonycteris pilot is^ and 

 six short notes and papers on Chiroptera, by G. S. Miller, jr. (pub- 

 lished in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington); 

 Description of a new Quail-dove from the W^est Indies, by J. H. Riley 

 (published in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington); 

 Pvcraft's Classification of the Falconiformes, by Robert Rido-way (pub- 

 lished in Science); Descriptions of a New Species of Gecko from Cocos 

 Island, hy Leonhard Stejneger (published in the Proceedings of the 

 Biological Society of Washington); On the Manlius Formation of 

 New York, by Charles Schuchert (published in the American Geolo- 

 gist); A newly found Meteorite from Mount Vernon, Christian County, 

 K3^, by George P, Merrill (published in the American Geologist); 

 two papers on new Tragidi., by Gerrit S. Miller, jr. (published in the 

 Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington); Revision of 

 the North American Crassulacefe, by J. N. Rose, conjointh^ with Dr. 

 N. L. Britton (published in vol, 2 of the Bulletin of the New York 

 Botanical Garden); On the Faunal Provinces of the Middle Devonic 



