14 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1899. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



The publications issued during the year comprise live vohimes, 

 namely: The Annutil Report for 1896; volume 20 of the Proceedings 

 in bound form, and the separate papers of volume 21; and parts 2 and 

 3 of the important bulletin entitled "The Fishes of North and Middle 

 America," by Doctors David S. Jordan and Barton W. Evermann. 

 The number of scientific papers based upon Museum collections which 

 have ])cen printed, chiefly in the above volumes though to some extent 

 in outside journals, is 318, representing 75 authors. 



