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completed and in advance of the bound volume. . . . The 

 articles in this series consists : First, of papers prepared by 

 the scientific corps of the National Museum ; secondly, of 

 papers by others, founded upon the collections in the Na- 

 tional Museum; and, finally, of facts and memoranda from the 

 correspondence of the Smithsonian Institution." 



The third series of the Museum, also published in octavo 

 size, is known as the " Bulletin of the National Museum," 

 forty-nine numbers of which have now been issued. The 

 publication of the " Bulletin " was begun in 1875, constituting 

 the "elaborate papers based upon the collections of the 

 Museum." A number of these Bulletins contain scientific 

 bibliographies of American naturalists. 



The Museum has also issued forty-six circulars of instruc- 

 tions, and four handsomely illustrated quarto volumes, two 

 of which are devoted to the "Life Histories of North Ameri- 

 can Birds," and the others to a description of the "Deep Sea 

 Fishes of the North Atlantic Basin." 



The Bureau of American Ethnology, which is also under 

 the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, has issued the 

 following series : first, annual reports, making now thirteen 

 royal octavo volumes, devoted to North American ethnology; 

 second, twenty-four bulletins, in octavo, special monographs, 

 among the most valuable being the linguistic bibliographies 

 of Pilling ; third, a quarto series of eight volumes, entitled 

 "Contributions to North American Ethnology, "being the re- 

 sults of the geographical and geological survey of the Rocky 

 Mountain Region, conducted under the immediate direction 

 of Major Powell, upon the initiative, and with the aid of the 

 Smithsonian Institution; fourth, a series of four "Introduc- 

 tions," in quarto form, issued in a very small edition, and in- 

 tended only for the use of the collaborators of the Bureau ; 

 and, finally, four miscellaneous publications, three of which 



