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tional Museum; and (c) the Bulletin of the United States National 

 Museum, which includes the Contributions from the United States 

 National Herbarium, The editorship of these publications is vested 

 in Dr. Marcus Benjamin. 



During the year the Museum published an annual rejDort, 2 

 volumes of the Proceedings and 52 separate papers forming parts 

 of these and other volumes, and 4 bulletins. 



The issues of the Proceedings were as follows : Volume 48 ; volume 

 49, papers 2092, 2094 to 2130, and the complete volume; volume 50, 

 papers 2131 to 2138. The Annual Report of the United States 

 National Museum for 1915 was also published. 



The bulletins were as follows: 



Bulletin 50, The Birds of North and Middle America, part 7, by Robert Ridgway. 

 Bulletin 91, Report on the Turton collection of South African marine mollusks, 



with additional notes on other South African shells contained in the United 



States National Museum, by Paul Bartsch, 

 Bulletin 92, Bibliographic index of American Ordovician and Silurian fossils 



(two volumes), by Ray S. Bassler. 

 Bulletin 94, Handbook and descriptive catalogue of the meteorite collections 



in the United States National Museum, by George P. Merrill. 



PUB]^ICATIONS OF THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. 



The publications of the bureau are discussed in appendix 2 of the 

 Secretary's report. The editorial work of the bureau has continued 

 in charge of Mr. J. G. Gurley, editor. 



During the year, 2 annual reports and 2 bulletins were issued, as 

 follows : 



29th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (containing an ac- 

 companying paper, " The Ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians," by John 

 Peabody Harrington). 



30th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (containing two ac- 

 companying papers, " Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians," by Matilda Coxe 

 Stevenson, and " An Inquiry into the animism and folklore of the Guiana 

 Indians," by Walter E. Roth), and a "List of publications of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology." 



Bulletin 57. An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs, by Sylvanus 

 Griswold Morley. 



Bulletin 62. Physical anthropology of the Lenape or Delawares, and of the 

 Eastern Indians in general, by Ales Hrdlicka. In press. 



REPORT OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. 



The annual reports of the American Historical Association are 

 transmitted by the association to the Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution and are communicated to Congress under the provisions 

 of the act of incorporation of the association. 



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