REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 59 



which the papers relate, who are not otherwise provided with the pub- 

 lication. The 800 remaining volumes to be bound and distributed in 

 this form. 



In special instances, where a given paper in the "Proceedings" is 

 believed to be of great general interest and to require a larger distribu- 

 tion, it has been customary to print from one hundred to one thousand 

 extra copies. 



(4) The Museum Circulars: Of these, forty-one have now been 

 printed. The first thirty three numbers of the cirulars were included 

 as appendices to t lie Proceedings. Circulars 34 and 35 were printed in 

 the report of the Museum. Circular 30 was issued only as a separate 

 and what should be No, 37 was printed without a number in Vol. x of 

 the "Proceedings" (page 701). It is believed that hereafter it will be 

 more satisfactory to reprint them in the annual report of the Museum, 

 since they are more of an administrative than of a scientific character. 

 The object of printing them as appeudices to the " Proceedings" was to 

 provide for the expense out of the fund for printing the "Proceedings," 

 but since the printing fund is now more directly under the control of 

 the Museum, it is quite practicable to priut such editions as may be 

 needed of these administrative papers, and instead of having them 

 electrotyped, they can be reset when the time comes for printing them 

 in the report — a method which is rather less expensive to the Museum 

 than the former one. 



Following is a list of circulars 1 to 41, with titles and number of 

 pages in each : 



No. 



1 



2 

 3 



Title. 



No. of 

 pages. 



58 

 2 



2 



1 



Plan of organization ami regulations 



Ciri alar addressed to friends of the Museum 



Circular in reference to petroleum collections -- 



4 Circular concerning the department of insects 



5 Establishment ami officers : 



Classification and arrangement of the materia medica collections 



7 A classification of the tonus in which drugs and medicines appear ami are administered 

 s Memoranda for collectors of drags forthe matei iamedica section of I he National M useum 

 9 Circular in reference to the building-stone collection 



10 Two let lets on I In- wo i k of the National Museum 



11 A professional classification of the food collections 



u Classification of the collect ion to illustrate t he an of taxidermy 



13 Outline of a scheme of Museum classification 



14 Circular requesting material for the library 



15 Mi'- organization and objects of the National Museum 



If. Plans for I he installation of collections 



17 Contributions and tbeir acknowledgements 



1 - List of publications of the United States National M 1 1 sen tii '2 



19 Classification of the mateiia medica collection of the U.S. National Museum and cata- 



logue of specimens 45 



20 Request for spei imens of drugs and informal ion concerning them 1 



'J I Circular relative to contributions of aboi iginal antiquities to the TJ. S. National Museum 5 



2 j Hi ief directions for removing and preserving the skins of mammals ' 7 



