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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1900. 



preparing study specimens of small mammals," by GerritS. Miller, jr.; 

 and " Directions for collecting and rearing dragon flies, stone flies, and 

 may flies," by Dr. James G. Needham. 



A list of the publications of the Museum and of the members of its 

 staff, issued during the year, is presented in Appendix IV. The 

 number of authors represented is 66 and the total number of papers 

 cited 276. The following table classifies these papers in accordance 

 with the subjects treated: 



Subject. 



[Papers by 

 Museum 

 officers. 



Papers by 



other 



investi- i 



gators. 



Total. 



Administration 



Archaeology 



Bird.s 



Botany 



Ethnology 



Exploration 



FLshes 



Fossils 



General natural history . . 



Geology 



Helminthology 



Insects 



Mammals 



Marine Invertebrates 



Minerals 



Mollusks 



Religions 



Reptiles and batrachians. 



Technology 



Miscellaneous 



Total 



202 



1 



3 



46 



13 



6 



1 



3 



18 



2 



9 



1 



99 



22 



16 



5 



22 



1 



4 



1 



3 



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

 material, have, 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 bibliography. 

 The names of the authors are as follows: Dr. George P. Merrill, Mr. 

 Gerrit S. Miller, jr., Dr. J. N. Rose, Mr. William R. Maxon, Mr. 

 Charles Louis Pollard, Dr. C. W. Richmond, Mr. Charles Schuchert, 

 and Mr. Charles T. Simpson. 



LIBRARY. 



The Museum library now contains over 15,000 bound volumes and 

 27,000 unbound papers. The additions during the year consisted of 

 337 books, 728 pamphlets, and 4,298 parts of periodicals. There were 

 catalogued 1,005 books, 2,699 pamphlets, and •±,921 parts of periodi- 

 cals. The number of books, pamphlets, and periodicals ))orrowed 



