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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



(JONTIIIBUTIONS OF THE YEAR TO SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE. 



A list of the papers based upon Museum material, which have been 

 published during the year by otlicers of the Museum and other investi- 

 gators, is printed in Appendix iv. Seventy-nine authors are repre- 

 sented. Fn the supplements to this bibliography will be found complete 

 lists of the new genera iind species described in the papers referred to. 

 The following table shows the subjects to which these papers relate: 



PUBLICATIONS. 



The Report of the Museum for 1893 was published early in the year, 

 and the pa])ers in the appendix have appeared in separate form. The 

 Rei)ort for 1894 is nearly all in type and much work has been accom- 

 plished in the preparation of the volume for 1895. 



^'olume XVII of the Proceedings was distributed in July, and active 

 progress has been made in printing and distributing the separate papers 

 in Volume xviii. Nos. 1033 to 108L>, with three exceptions, have 

 appeared, and also paper No. 1032, belonging to Volume xvii, but not 

 received from the press in time for distribution before the close of last 

 year. Volume xviii, in bound form, will probably be ready for dis- 

 tribution in the autumn. Advance sheets of the following papers have 



