150 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1914. 
“To the National Museum or to the Smithsonian Institution as my 
Executor shall deem best any pictures or books not otherwise dis- 
posed of, which they may desire.” 
By further terms of the will the Smithsonian Institution is made 
the residuary legatee in a certain trust estate, which, when released, 
is to constitute a trust fund known as “‘The Spencer Fullerton 
Baird Fund,’ the interest from which shall be devoted under the 
direction of the Smithsonian Institution to the expenses, in whole or 
in part, of scientific and biological research or for the purchase of 
specimens of natural objects or archeological specimens.” The Mu- 
seum may expect to benefit from expenditures from this fund. Under 
the article above quoted the Museum received early in the year from 
the executor of the estate of Miss Baird several hundred objects, com- 
prising books, engravings and paintings, pottery, glassware, bronzes, 
photographs, historical objects, and personal relics of Prof. Baird, 
the last including a gold and a silver medal which had been presented 
to him in recognition of his important work in fish culture. 
PUBLICATIONS. 
The number of volumes issued during the year was 14, and of sep- 
arate papers, 58. The former consisted of the annual reports of the 
Museum for 1912 and 1913; volumes 44, 45, and 46 of the Proceed- 
ings; and the following Bulletins, namely: No. 50, Part VI, “The 
Birds of North and Middle America,” by Robert Ridgway, containing 
descriptions of the woodpeckers, barbets, toucans, puff birds, jaca- 
mars, kingfishers, todies, motmots, goatsuckers, potocs, barn owls, 
and eared owls; No. 71, “A monograph of the Foraminifera of the 
North Pacific Ocean, Part IIT, Lagenidex,” and “Part IV, Chilo- 
stomellide, Globigerinide, Nummulitide,” by Joseph A. Cushman; 
No. 80, “A descriptive account of the building recently erected for 
the departments of natural history of the United States National 
Museum,” by Richard Rathbun; No. 83, “'Type species of the genera 
of Ichneumon flies,” by Henry L. Viereck; No. 84, “A contribution 
to the study of the Ophiurans of the United States National Mu- 
seum,” by René Koehler; No. 85, “A monograph of the jumping plant- 
lice or Psyllide of the New World,” by David L. Crawford; No. 86, 
“A monograph of the genus Chordeiles Swainson, type of a new fam- 
ily of goatsuckers,” by Harry C. Oberholser; and No. 87, “ Culture of 
the ancient Pueblos of the Upper Gila River region, New Mexico and 
Arizona” (Second Museum-Gates Expedition), by Walter Hough. 
Bulletin No. 67, entitled “ Directions for collecting and preserving 
insects,” by Nathan Banks, was reprinted in a limited edition to meet 
the continuous demand for this popular pamphlet of instructions. 
Of the 58 papers issued separately for prompt distribution to spe- 
cialists, 5 were from volume 45, 35 from volume 46, and 9 from 
