EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1918. 89 



spermatophytes of the Tomas Barrera expedition to Cuba," by Mar- 

 shall A. Howe; "Descriptions of two new birds from Haiti," by 

 Charles W. Richmond, "Meliaceae Centrali Americanae et Pana- 

 menses," by G. de Candolle, and "Explorations and field-work of 

 the Smithsonian Institution in 1917." In addition to these the Insti- 

 tution also published in its Annual Report for 1916 four papers based 

 on Museum material, as follows: "Administration and activities 

 of the Smithsonian Institution," by A. Howard Clark; "Pirates of 

 the Deep — Stories of the squid and octopus," by Paul Bartsch ; "The 

 great dragon of Quirigua, Guatemala," by W. H. Holmes; "A pre- 

 historic Mesa Verde pueblo and its people," by J. TV. Fewkes, and a 

 reprint of the article entitled "Theodore Nicholas Gill," by TVilliam 

 H. Dall, which originally appeared in Biographical Memoirs of the 

 National Academy of Sciences. As a special publication, the Insti- 

 tution also issued a finely illustrated paper by Frank Springer en- 

 titled "On the crinoid genus Scyphocrinus and its bulbous root 

 Camarocrinus." 



The editorial office, besides supervising the printing of the Museum 

 publications, also has charge of all miscellaneous printing and 

 binding. 



LIBRARY. 



The library of the Museum is assembled almost exclusively with 

 reference to the working up of the collections, but owing to the ex- 

 ceptional diversity of these it embraces a wide range of subjects in 

 the sciences and arts. The main library is housed in the natural his- 

 tory building, while the publications on the useful arts are provided 

 for in the arts and industries building. Moreover, each of the divi- 

 sions and principal offices has its own sectional library, consisting of 

 the books relating wholly to its subject, which are withdrawn from 

 the main branches and so distributed in order to facilitate the prog- 

 ress of work. The use of the library and its sections is not, however, 

 restricted to members of the staff, being extended to all properly 

 qualified persons, and this privilege is extensively availed of by the 

 Government scientific bureaus and other establishments in Wash- 

 ington. 



The need of the library of additional means for purchasing and 

 binding is becoming more and more acute, especially as the scarcity of 

 material, caused by war conditions, has resulted in the discontinuance 

 of the receipt of a number of periodicals which had come previously 

 as gifts or in exchange. There should be sufficient funds available 

 for subscription to these periodicals. . 



The increment, largely obtained through gift and exchange, 

 amounted to 6,162 volumes and 1,583 pamphlets and parts of vol- 

 umes. There are now in the library 52,513 volumes and 84,495 



