88 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1918. 



J. Rathbun ; No. 101, " The Columbian Institute for the promo- 

 tion of arts and sciences. A Washington society of 1816-1838, which 

 established a museum and botanic garden under Government pat- 

 ronage," by Richard Rathbun ; and a very small edition, for office use, 

 of the complete volume, No. 18, Contributions from the United 

 States National Herbarium. Bulletin No. 39, Parts A and D, and 

 Bulletin 67, entitled, respectively, "Directions for collecting birds," 

 "Directions for collecting, preparing, and preserving birds' eggs and 

 nests" and "Directions for collecting and preserving insects," were 

 reprinted in small editions to enable the Museum to meet the constant 

 demand for them. 



Of the 40 papers issued in separate form 3 were parts of volume 

 1 of Bulletin 100, "Contributions to the biology of the Philippine 

 Archipelago and adjacent regions," as follows: Part 1, "The Philip- 

 pine land shells of the genus Amphidromus" ; part 2, "Ascidians 

 from the Philippines and adjacent waters"; and part 3, "Report 

 upon the Scyphomedusae collected by the United States Bureau of 

 Fisheries Steamer 'Albatross ' in the Philippine Islands and Malay 

 Archipelago." Four parts of Bulletin 102, "The mineral industries 

 of the United States," were also issued, namely, part 1, " Coal prod- 

 ucts: An object lesson in resource administration"; part 2, "Fer- 

 tilizers: An interpretation of the situation in the United States"; 

 part 3, "Sulphur: An example of industrial independence"; and 

 part 4, "Coal: The resource and its full utilization." Of the re- 

 maining separates 2 formed parts of volume 18 and 2 parts of 

 volume 20, "Contributions from the United States National Herba- 

 rium," while 12 were from volume 53 and 16 from volume 54 of the 

 Proceedings, as listed in the bibliography at the end of this report, 

 and one was a catalogue entitled " Catalogue of an exhibition of litho- 

 graphs of war work in Great Britain and the United States, by 

 Joseph Pennell," descriptive of a collection exhibited in the National 

 gallery of Art November 1 to 24, 1917. 



The distribution of volumes and separates to libraries and indi- 

 viduals on the regular mailing lists aggregated 65,000 copies, in ad- 

 dition to which some 10,300 copies of the publication of last and pre- 

 vious years were supplied in response to special applications. 



Besides the Museum publications, many contributions based on 

 material in its collections were printed by other bureaus of the Gov- 

 ernment and by- private institutions, all of which are cited in the 

 bibliography. Those issued by the Smithsonian Institution comprise 

 the following, which appeared in the Miscellaneous Collections: 

 "Cambrian geology and paleontology. IV. No. 3. Fauna of the 

 Mount Whyte formation," by Charles D. Walcott; "New rodents 

 from British East Africa," by N. Hollister; "A new river-dolphin 

 from China," by Gerrit S. Miller, jr. ; " The marine algae and marine 



