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labeled. There is on hand, however, a very large amount of original 

 material, as represented in the Marsh collection of fossil vertebrates and 

 the Lacoe collection of fossil plants, which requires time for its prepara- 

 tion, but from which the exhibition halls will ultimately receive some of 

 their most novel and interesting features. 



Publications. — The publications issued during the year comprise the 

 second volume of the Annual Report of the Museum I'm- L897, the Annual 

 Reports for 189S and 1899, Volume 22 of the Proceedings, and Part 1 of 

 Special Bulletin No. 4, besides a large number of papers from the Reports 

 and Proceedings printed in separate form. 



Volume II of the Report for 1897 contains a biographical account of Dr. 

 G. Brown Goode, the late Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution in charge of the National Museum, together with reprints of several 

 of his more important papers on museums and on the history of scientific 

 progress in America, and is illustrated with portraits of more than 100 men 

 who have been prominent in the scientific advancement of the country. 

 The Appendix to the Report for 1898 consists of a single paper by the late 

 Prof. E. D. Cope on the crocodilians, lizards, and snakes of North Amer- 

 ica, comprising 1,100 pages of text, with 37 full-page plates and 347 text 

 figures. The Report for 1899 contains five scientific papers based upon 

 collections in the Museum. 



Volume 22 of the Proceedings includes papers numbered from 1179 to 

 1205, the Synopsis of the Naiades, by Mr. Charles T. Simpson, being espe- 

 cially worthy of note. 



Part 1 of Special Bulletin No. 4 is the first of a series of papers on the 

 American Hydroids, by Mr. C. C. Nutting, professor of zoology in the 

 University of Iowa, and was issued early in the fall. It treats of the Plu- 

 mularidae, is in quarto form, and contains 34 plates. 



Dr. W. L. Ralph has undertaken to continue the extensive work on the 

 Life Histories of North American Birds, begun some years ago by the late 

 Maj. Charles E. Bendire, U. S. A., and of which two volumes have been 

 printed as Special Bulletins Nos. 1 and 3, and a circular (No. 50) soliciting 

 new and unpublished information on the subject has been prepared and 

 distributed to correspondents. 



Pan-American Exposition. — At this exposition, which opened at Buffalo 

 on May 1, and will continue until the 1st of November, the three scien- 

 tific departments of the Museum are represented by carefully prepared 

 collections. 



The exhibit in anthropology is intended to illustrate the native peoples 

 of America from North Greenland to Terra del Fuego. It consists pri- 

 marily of twelve groups of lay figures, each showing the several members of 

 the family of a representative tribe engaged in some characteristic pursuit, 

 and so arranged that in passing from one to theother the visitor may form 

 an intelligent idea of the appearance, condition, and culture of the original 

 inhabitants of the continent. There are also thirteen models illustrating 

 various types of dwellings from the far North to the extreme South, and 

 thirteen series illustrating those activities that seem best calculated to con- 

 vey an idea of the culture status of the races. 



The exhibit made by the Department of Biology is limited to American 



