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which involved the wrapping and labeling of approximately 88,000 

 books and separates. About 23,100 copies of these and of earlier pub- 

 lications were also distributed in response to special applications. 



A number of papers on collections belonging to or soon to be 

 deposited in the Museum were published in the Miscellaneous Col- 

 lections of the Smithsonian Institution. Six of these, descriptive of 

 Cambrian geology and paleontology, were by Dr. Charles D. Walcott, 

 Secretary of the Institution, and were entitled as follows: " Olenellus 

 and other genera of the Mesonacida?," " Pre-Cambrian rocks of the 

 Bow River Valley, Alberta, Canada," "Abrupt appearance of the 

 Cambrian fauna on the North American continent," " Middle Cam- 

 brian Merostomata," " Middle Cambrian Holothurians and Me- 

 dusa?," and "Cambrian faunas of China." The other papers were 

 " Some results of recent anthropological exploration in Pern," by 

 Ales Hrdlicka ; " Descriptions of fifteen new African birds," and 

 " Descriptions of ten new African birds," by Edgar A. Mearns ; 

 " New species of rodents and carnivores from equatorial Africa," 

 " New species of insectivores from British East Africa, Uganda, 

 and the Sudan," and " Descriptions of seven new species of East 

 African mammals," by Edmund Heller; "Two new African ratels," 

 by N. Hollister; " Notes on a horn-feeding lepidopterous larva from 

 Africa," by August Busck; "New landshells from the Smithsonian 

 African Expedition," by William Healey Dall ; and " The flying 

 apparatus of the blow-fly," by Wolfgang Hitter. 



In addition to the oversight of publications through the press, the 

 editorial office also has charge of the miscellaneous printing, which 

 has to do chiefly with labels, blanks, and record cards, the labels 

 forming the principal item. 



LIBRARY. 



With the addition during the year of 1,911 books, 4,014 pamphlets, 

 and 202 parts of volumes, the Museum library now contains 40,211 

 volumes and 66,074 unbound papers. The acquisitions were secured 

 by purchase, exchange, and gift, among those to whom the library is 

 especially indebted for donations being the following members and 

 associates of the Museum staff, namely, Dr. Theodore N. Gill, Dr. C. 

 W. Richmond, Mr. Robert Riclgway, Mr. J. H. Riley, Dr. William 

 H. Dall, Dr. Paul Bartsch, Dr. Walter Hough, Mr. William H. 

 Holmes, Dr. F. H. Knowlton, Dr. O. P. Hay, Mr. J. C. Crawford, 

 and Mr. D. W. Coquillett. 



Eight hundred and seventy-eight books, 1,033 volumes of period- 

 icals, and 4,181 pamphlets were catalogued, and 809 volumes were 

 sent to the Government Printing Office for binding. Thirty sectional 

 libraries are now recognized, one in connection with each of the divi- 

 sions and principal offices, and to these 4,142 books and papers were 

 assigned during the year. The number of publications borrowed 



