REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



65 



Vols, i to iv of the " Proceedings " and Bulletins 1 to 1G may be regarded 

 as published ; although not to the extent to which it would seem desirable 

 in the way of supplying local institutions. Of the following there are in 

 hand enough to make a very fair distribution, viz : "Proceedings" Vol. 

 x and XI, and " Bulletins" Nos. 33 to 37. Of Vols. V to ix of "Pro- 

 ceedings" and of Bulletins 17 to 32, however, no systematic publication 

 ran be made without the printing of an additional number of copies. 



There are, apparently, three ways in which the necessities of the case 

 may be met. 



(1) For the* Smithsonian Institution to assume the publication in the 

 Miscellaneous Collections of all the volumes of the Proceedings up to 

 Vol. xn and of the Bulletins up to No. 40. Then to close the series and 

 to begin the publication of two new series of " Proceedings ''and " Bul- 

 letin " with a new 7 set of numbers, in each instance to begin with No. 1. 



(2) For the Smithsonian Institution to publish Vols. V to ix of the 

 " Proceedings," and "Bulletins" 17 to 32, to make as judicious as pos- 

 sible a distribution of the subsequent volumes, and to begin with the 

 year 1890 the publication of two series, as already suggested. 



(3) To ask Congress in 1890 to appropriate a sum sufficient to complete 

 the back sets of the " Proceedings" from Vol. I to xil, and in 1891 to 

 make a similar request for the printing of back numbers of the " Bulle- 

 tin ;"' in each case, if possible, securing an edition of 3,000 copies. 



Appended to this part of the report are three lists of institutions, and 

 foreign and domestic libraries to which it is desired to send the future 

 publications of the Museum. 



This is, of course, independent of the lists of special institutions and 

 of specialists, who are provided with papers relatiug to their own pecul- 

 iar lines of work, and also of institutions or individual specialists and 

 correspondents of the Museum, with whom exchange is in progress, 

 since such lists are constantly varying. 



PUBLICATIONS DURING THE YEAR. 



Proceedings of the U. 8. National Museum. — Vol. x of this series, for 

 1887, was issued in December, 1888, and contains viii+771 pages and 

 39 plates. The first signature of the volume printed in this year was 

 No. 32 (p. 497). In Vol. x are included seventy-eight papers* by 

 twenty-nine authors, ten of whom are officers of the Museum; namely, 



•Sul,|, . i 



Birds 



Fishes 



Marine Im ei tebratos 



Inserts 



Mammals 



i tology 



Mollasks 



Reptiles 



Number 

 of pa- 

 pers. 



34 



18 

 9 



:: 

 3 



2 

 2 



Subject. 



1 plants. 



Kir. nt plants 



Mineralogy 



< Isteology 



i ri mill natural historj 



Total 



Number 



Of pa- 

 pers. 



78 



H. Mis. 224, pt. 2 5 



