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TV. PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The publications of the National Museum are: (a) the Annual Report, form- 

 ing a separate volume of the Report of the Smithsonian Institution ; (b) the 

 Pi'oceedings of the United States National Museum; (c) the Bulletin of the 

 United States National Museum. 



(o) The Report for the year ending .June 30, 1903, was completed during the 

 past fiscal year, and the Report for 1904 is now in press. 



Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, show- 

 ing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 

 ending June 30, 1903. Report of the United States National Museum. Wash- 

 ington : Ciovernment Printing Office; 1905. Octavo. Pages i-xv, 1-G4G. Plates, 

 120 ; text figures, 120. 



CONTENTS. 



Tart I. Report upon the condition and progress of the United States National Museum 

 during the year ending June 30, 1903. By Richard Rathhun, assistant secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, in charge of the United States National Museum. 



Part II. I'apers descriptive of Museum huildings. 



The United States National Museum : An account of the buildings occupied by the 

 national collections. By Richard Rathbuu. 



Studies of museums and kindred institutions of New York City, Albany, Buffalo, and 

 Chicago, with notes on some European institutions. By A. B. Meyer. 



(ft) Although enough separate papers have been published to make up Volnine 

 XXVIII of the Proceedings of the United States National jNIuseum, they have, 

 not yet been put together in bound form. 



The separates so far issued are as follows : 



No. 1382. A Treatise on the Acarina, or Mites. By Nathan Banks. Pages 

 1-114, text figures 1-201. 



No. 1383. Notes on Hawaiian Reptiles from the Island of Maui. By Richard 

 C. McGregor. Pages 11.5-118. 



No. 1.384. Labracinus the Proper Name for the Fish Genus Cichlops. By 

 Theodore Gill. Page 119. 



No. 1385. Note on the Genus Prionurus or Acanthoaulos. By Theodore Gill. 

 Page 121. 



No. 1386. Description of a New Species of Fish (Apogon Evermanni) from 

 the Hawaiian Islands, with Notes on other Species. By David Starr .Jordan 

 and .John Otterbein Snyder. Pages 123-126. 



No. 1387. Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Hymenoptera from the 

 Philippine Islands. By William H. Ashmead. Pages 127-158, with plates i-ii. 



No. 1388. On the Systematic Relations of the Anmiodytoid Fishes. By Theo- 

 dore Gill. Pages 159-163, text figures 1-4. 



No. 1389. The Dragonflies (Odonata) of Burma and Lower Siam. — I. Sub- 

 family Calopteryginte. By Edward Bruce Williamson. Pages 165-187, text 

 figures 1-18. 



No. 1390. On the Liparis (Trismegistus) Owstoni .Jordan and Snyder. By 

 Peter Schmidt. Pages 189-191, text figures 1-2. 



No. 1.391. On a Collection of Fishes made in Korea, by Pierre Louis Juoy, 

 with Descriptions of New Species. By David Starr Jordan and Edwin Chapin 

 Starks. Pages 19.3-212, text figures 1-11. 



No. 1392. The Mount Vernon Meteorite. By Wirt Tassin. Pages 213-217, 

 plates iii-iv, 1 text figure. 



No. 1393. The Scorprenoid Fish, Neosebastes Extaxis, as the Type of a Dis- 

 tinct Species. By Theodore Gill. Pages 219-220, figures 1-2. 



No. 1,394. Note on the Genera of Synanceine and Pelorine Fishes. By Theo- 

 dore Gill. Pages 221-225, text figure 1. 



