X CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Buildings 54 



Accessions and registration 55 



Distribntion and exchanges 57 



La))els --- 59 



Visitors fiO 



8tnd<'nts and investigators 61 



Cooj)erati<iu of the Kxefutive Departments of the Government ()7 



Ideutifieation of specimens and information fnrnished 68 



P(ibli( atioiis 68 



Library ^.- 70 



Ex])lorations 70 



Taxidermy and osteology 74 



Photography 76 



Expositions 76 



APPENDICES. 



I. The Musenm staff" 79 



II. List of accessions dnring the year ending ,Inne 30, 1898 81 



III. Statement of the <listribntion of specimens (Inringtlie year ending. I iiue 30, 



1898 121 



l\ . liibliography of the IT. S. National Museum lor the year ending .June 30, 



1898 129 



V. Papers published in separate form during the year ending .June 30, 1898. . 148 



PART II. 



The Crocodilians, Lizards, and Snakes of North America. By Edward Drinker 



Cope 153 



