4> REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1907. 



als. Rocks, and Ores contained in the Department of Geology; " No. 

 56, part 1, "Mammals of the Mexican Boundary of the United 

 States, by Maj. Edgar A. Mearns, surgeon, U S. Army;" No. 57, 

 "The families and genera of Bats, by Gerrit S. Miller, jr.;" and 

 Volume XI of the Contributions from the U. S. National Herba- 

 rium, devoted entirely to a description of the k * Flora of the State of 

 Washington," by Mr. Charles \. Piper, of the I T . S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



The parts of volumes published were reprints of Parts A and G 

 of Bulletin No. -V.l being directions for collecting birds and mollnsks. 

 respectively; a supplement to Bulletin No. 51, being a list of the 

 publications of the Museum from 1901 to 1906, and three parts of 

 Volume X of the Contributions from the National Herbarium, as 

 follows: Part 2. "The genus Ptelea in the western and southwestern 

 United States and Mexico," by Dr. Edward L. Greene: Part 3, 

 ''Studies of Mexican and Central American plants," by Dr. J. N. 

 Rose, being the report of his botanical researches on a fifth trip to 

 Mexico in the interest of the division of plants; Part 1, " Legumi- 

 nosse of Porto Rico," by Dr. Janet Perkins. 



The following Bulletins were in print at the close of the year, but 

 were not bound and ready for distribution until in July: No. 50, 

 Part IV. of the " Birds of North and Middle America." by Robert 

 Ridgway; No. 58, " Herpetology of Japan and adjacent territory," 

 by Leonhard Stejneger; No. .V,). •• Recent Madreporaria of the Ha- 

 waiian Islands and Laysan," by T. Wayland Vaughan. 



In addition to the above, twelve short papers descriptive of Mu- 

 seum material, mainly by members of its staff, were published in the 

 Quarterly Issue of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Four 

 were on mammals, one on reptiles, one on mollnsks. one on mosquitoes, 

 three on botany, one on Brazilian Indians, and one faunal. Permis- 

 sion was also granted for the printing elsewhere than in the publica- 

 tions of the Institution and Museum of seven papers of a similar 

 character. 



The HX'> scientific papers mentioned above may be classified by 

 subjects as follows: Mammals. 22; birds, 3; reptiles and bactrach- 

 ians, 3; fishes, l'.i; insects, 8; mollnsks, 9; crustaceans, 8; helmin- 

 thology, 2; echinoderms, 4; corals, 1; comparative anatomy, 2; 

 botany. 7: fauna. 1 : geology, 3; meteorites. 4 : fossils, 9; ethnology, 

 1. They are cited in full in the Bibliography at the end of this 

 report. 



LIBRARY. 



The Museum has been fortunate in continuing to receive from Prof. 

 (). T. Mason. Dr. C A. White, and Dr. W. L. Ralph many scientific 



