60 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1908. 
physical anthropology, 1; mammals, 22; birds, 11; reptiles and batra- 
chians, 8; fishes, 25; insects, 41; mollusks, 24; other marine inverte- 
brates, 42; helminthology, 9; plants, 12; geology and mineralogy, 6; 
fossils, 14; fine arts, 1; biography, 3; bibliography, 2. 
In addition to the editorial work in connection with the publica- 
tions, the editor also has charge of the other printing for the Museum, 
including labels, blanks, ete., and of the binding, all of which is done 
by the Government Printing Office. 
LIBRARY, 
The Museum library has continued to receive from Prof. O. T. 
Mason and Dr. C. A. White many gifts of scientific publications 
which are of great value in completing sets and filling in the series 
of authors’ separates, and Mr. William Schaus has again added ma- 
terially to the sectional library of the division of insects. Dr. Charles 
W. Richmond has presented another installment of books and pamph- 
lets, including many of the Thunberg dissertations, which are for the 
most part rare and difficult to obtain and of which he is endeavoring 
to complete the set. The library has also been benefited by the plan 
adopted by the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature of 
sending to authors lists of their scientific writings that have been 
entered in the catalogue and requesting any that have not been cited, 
Whereby many separates from periodicals, journals, ete., have been 
acquired, 
There are now in the library 33,564 volumes, 52,112 unbound papers, 
and LOS manuscripts. The additions during the year consisted of 
3,257 books, 4470 pamphlets, and 247 parts of volumes. One thou- 
sand books, 2.257 complete volumes of periodicals, and 4,056 pamph- 
lets were catalogued, and 1,086 books were sent to the Government 
Printing Office for binding. The number of books, periodicals, and 
pamphlets borrowed from the general library was 29,242, while the 
number assigned to sectional libraries was 10314. 
PHOTOGRAPHY. 
The photographie laboratory, which is one of the best equipped for 
its purpose in the country, has for its object the preparation of illus- 
trations for the publications of the Museum, for the manuscript 
records of important collections, and for the exhibition halls, and of 
copies of plans relating to details of construction in connection with 
the buildings, furniture, ete. The number of negatives made during 
the year was 1,328; of silver and velox prints, 3,615; of blueprints, 
6447; and of bromide enlargements, 28. Seventy-four rolls of films 
taken in the field were also developed. 
