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Prof. C. C. Nutting'.s monograph on the Sertuhirian hydroids, forming part 2 of 

 Special Bulletin No.'4. ' 



The three volumes of Proceedings contained in all 110 papers, of which S9 relate 

 to fishes, 19 to insects, 18 to marine invertebrates, 10 to birds, and the remainder to 

 mammals, mollusks, plants, reptiles, fossils, and meteorites. 



The Appendix to the Report for 1901 was made up of five ])aj)ers, as follows: 

 " Report on the Exhibit of the United States National Museum at the Pan-American 

 Exposition, Buffalo, N. Y., 1901;" "Flint Implements and Fossil Remains from a 

 Sulphur Spring at Afton, Ind. T.," and "Classification and Arrangement of the 

 Exhibits of an Anthropological Museum," by Mr. William H. Holmes; "Archeolog- 

 ical Field Work in Northeastern Arizona," by Dr. Walter Hough, and "Narrative 

 of a Visit to Indian Tribes of the Purus River, Brazil," by Prof. J. B. Steere. 



The Report for 1902 contained an elaborate paper by Prof. O. T. Mason on "Abo- 

 riginal American Basketry: Studies in a Textile Art without Machinery"; one by 

 Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, entitled "The Herpetology of Porto Rico"; and one by Mr. 

 F. V. Coville, entitled " Wokas — Primitive Food of the Klamath Indians." 



Several papers by members of the INIuseum staff on material contained in the 

 Museum were, by permission of the Secretary, printed in various journals, and a 

 number were also published in the quarterly issue of the Miscellaneous Collections 

 of the Smithsonian Institution. 



The Annual Report for 1903, now ready to go to press, will have a paper by the 

 Assistant Secretary on the buildings occupied by the National Collections, and a 

 translation of the three papers by Dr. A. B. Meyer, director of the Royal Zoological 

 Anthropological-P]thnographical museums in Dresden, on the principal museums of 

 New York State, Chicago, and several European countries. 



I/ihrnri/. — The library of the National Museum has received as a gift from Prof. 

 Otis T. Mason, in addition to one made some years ago, about 2,000 pamphlets, sejia- ' 

 rates, and bound (juarto volumes mostly on anthropological subjects, for which a 

 special bookplate has been provided. The Museum has also received from Dr. 

 Edward L. Greene his entire botanical library, which has been placed on deposit 

 for a period of ten years in connection with his botanical collections. 



The aggregate of additions to the Museum library for the year amounted to 1,504 

 books, 3,187 pamphlets, and 700 parts of volumes. 



Expositions. — The exhibits prepared by the Museum for the Louisiana Purchase 

 Exposition were properly arranged before the opening day, and the zeal and activity 

 displayed l)y the curators, preparators and others engaged in their preparation, 

 shipment, and installation are highly commendable. The collections are grouped 

 under the three general heads of anthropology, l^iology, and geology. A l)rief 

 a«count of them will be found in the Museum report for this year, while the official 

 report of Dr. F. W. True, representative of the Institution and the National Museum, 

 will be published later. 



Congress at its last session made provision for the celebration of the one hundredth 

 anniversary of the exploration of the Oregon region by Capts. Meriwether Lewis 

 and William Clark, including a (Tovernmeut exhiliit, for which the sum of $200,000 

 was appropriated, besides $250,000 for a suitable building. The bill S. 276, intro- 

 duced by Senator John H. Mitchell on November 11, 1903, was approved by the 

 President on April 13, 1904. 



Respectfully submitted. 



Richard Rathbun, 

 Assistant Secretary in charge of the U. S. National Museum. 



Mr. S. P. Langlev, 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



August 1, 1904. 



