64 BEPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1899. 



Twenty-two papers by members of the staff, based upon Museum 

 material, ha\'e with the approval of the Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution been printed during the year in publications other than 

 those of the Museum. Their titles will be found in the Bibliogfraphy. 

 The names of the authors are as follows: Mr. Robert Ridgway, Dr. 

 C. W. Richmond, Mr. G. S. Miller, jr., Mr. F. A. Lucas, Dr. J. N. Rose, 

 Mr. C. L. Pollard, Mr. Charles Schuchert, and Mr. B. A. Bean. 



LIBRARY. 



During the past year the Museum library acquired through pur- 

 chase, under a special act of Congress, the very important scientific 

 library of the late Dr. G. Brown Goode, consisting of about 2,900 

 bound volumes, 18,000 pamphlets, and 1,800 portraits, autographs, 

 and engravings. This collection, brought together at the expense of 

 much time and labor on the part of Doctor Goode, contains many rare 

 and valuable publications, and is especially rich in the literature of 

 museums and of fishes. 



The overcrowded condition of the library has been somewhat, 

 though only temporarily, relieved by building for its use a gallery 

 in the West North Range. 



Six hundred and forty books, 965 pamphlets, and 6,196 parts of 

 periodicals, including the regular Museum accessions and a small part 

 of the Goode library, have been catalogued, and progress has been 

 made in the transfer of titles to the new catalogue cards. From the 

 accessions to the Smithsonian library 231 books, 649 pamphlets, and 

 8,616 parts of periodicals have been temporarily installed in the 

 Museum. About 16,000 books and pamphlets were borrowed during 

 the year, about one-third for the use of the sectional libraries. Among 

 the purchases for the year have been a large number of works relating 

 to the natural history of Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands. 

 The number of books bound at the Government Printing Office was 441. 



Three additional sectional libraries have been authorized, the list 

 now standing as follows: 



Administration. Marine invertebrates. 



Anthropology. Medicine. 



Biology. Mesozoic fossils. 



Birds. Mineralogy. 



Botany. Mollusks. 



Comparative anatomy. Oriental antiquities. 



Editorial. Paleobotany 



Ethnology. Parasites. 



Fishes. Photography. 



Geology. Prehistoric archaeology. 



History. Rejitiles. 



Insects. Stratigraphic paleontology. 



Mammals, Technology. 



