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all of which had been previously distributed in the form of sep- 
arates. In June, 1908, volume 33 of the Proceedings, containing 35 
papers, was published, 700 copies of each paper being delivered in 
pamphlet form, instead of 600, as in previous years. This increase 
will allow a somewhat wider distribution than heretofore. In addi- 
tion to those already mentioned, 23 “ separates,” forming part of 
volume 34 of the Proceedings, were published and distributed during 
the year. 
Of bulletins, 5 volumes were issued, as follows: No. 50, volume 4, 
Birds of North and Middle America, by Robert Ridgway, containing 
973 pages of text and 34 plates, and descriptive of the thrushes, wren- 
thrushes, mockingbirds, starlings, weaver-birds, larks, sharpbills, 
tyrant flycatchers, manakins, and chatterers; No. 58, The Herpetology 
of Japan and Adjacent Territory, by Leonhard Stejneger; No. 59, Re- 
cent Madreporaria of the Hawaiian Islands and Laysan, by T. Way- 
land Vaughan; No. 60, The Barnacles (Cirripedia) Contained in the 
Collections of the U. S. National Museum, by Henry A. Pilsbry, of 
the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences; and No. 61, Varia- 
tions and Genetic Relationships of the Garter Snakes, by Alexander 
C. Ruthven, of the University of Michigan. 
The * parts” of volumes consisted of the following numbers in the 
series of Contributions from the U. S. National Herbarium: Volume 
X, part 5, Report on the Diatoms of the Albatross Voyages in the 
Pacific Ocean, 1888-1904, by Albert Mann, of the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture: Volume X, part 6, The Cyperacese of Costa Rica, by 
the late Prof. C. B. Clarke; Volume X, part 7, Studies of Tropica! 
American Ferns, No. 1, by William R. Maxon; Volume XII, part 1, 
Catalogue of the botanical library of John Donnell Smith, presented 
in 1905 to the Smithsonian Institution, compiled by Alice Cary At- 
wood; Volume XII, part 2, containing The Lecythidacee of Costa 
tica, and Tonduzia, a New Genus of Apoeyvnacee from Central 
America, by H. Pittier de Fabrega; and A Collection of Plants from 
the Vicinity of La Guaira, Venezuela, by J. R. Johnston; Volume 
XII, part 3, Types of American Grasses, by A. S. Hitchcock. 
In addition to the foregoing, 17 papers describing Museum mate- 
rial, and for the most part written by members of its staff, were pub- 
lished in the Quarterly Issue of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Col- 
lections. They may be classified as follows: Archeology, 1; mam- 
mals, 1; fishes, 1; insects, 1; marine invertebrates, including mollusks, 
4; botany, 4; geology, 5. The Secretary also granted permission Zor 
the printing elsewhere than in the publications of the Institution and 
Museum of 10 papers by members of the staff. 
The following is a classification by subjects of the 230 papers cited 
in the bibliography: Administration, 1; ethnology, 5; archeology, 3; 
