62 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1911. 



Number of visitors to the Museum mid Smithsonian buildings since 1881. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



Nine completed volumes and 116 papers printed separately, de- 

 scriptive of the collections and activities of the Museum, were issued 

 during the year. The volumes consisted of the Annual Report for 

 1910, volumes 37 and 38 of the Proceedings, volume 15 of the Con- 

 tributions from the National Herbarium, entitled " The North Amer- 

 ican Species of Panicum," by A. S. Hitchcock and Agnes Chase, and 

 five bulletins, as follows : No. 71, " A Monograph of the Foraminif era 

 of the North Pacific Ocean, Part II. Textulariidae," by Joseph 

 Augustine Cushman; No. 73, "An account of the beaked whales of 

 the family Ziphiidge in the collection of the United States National 

 Museum, with remarks on some specimens in other American mu- 

 seums," by Frederick W. True ; No. 74, " On some West Indian Echi- 

 noids," by Theodor Mortensen; No. 75, "North Pacific Ophiurans 

 in the collection of the United States National Museum," by Hubert 

 Lyman Clark ; and No. 76, " Asteroidjea of the North Pacific and Ad- 

 jacent Waters, Part I. Phanerozonia and Spinulosa," by Walter 

 Kenrick Fisher. 



Of the 116 papers issued also in separate form, 110 comprised parts 

 of volumes 37, 38, and 41, and all of volumes 39 and 40, of the Pro- 

 ceedings, while 6 belonged to volumes 13 and 14 of the Contributions 

 from the National Herbarium. Their titles are given in the list of 

 publications at the end of this report. 



The institutions and individuals named in the regular mailing lists 

 were promptly supplied with the publications of the year, a work 



