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Numerous requests have beeu received for photographs and working 

 drawings of Museum cases. So frequent are these requests becoming 

 that with the beginning of the new fiscal year a detailed record of such 

 matters will be kept for publication. 



In the report of the curator of the Department of Marine Inverte- 

 brates may be found a list of the recipients of sets of marine inverte- 

 brates expressly prepared for distribution. 



A loan of several cases was made to Capt. R. H. Pratt, of the Indian 

 Training School at Carlisle, Pa., for the exhibition of his collection at 

 New Orleans. After their return from the exposition, these cases were 

 finally permanently transferred to Captain Pratt, in exchange for speci- 

 mens of Indian costumes. 



(c) Publications. 



The seventh volume of the "Proceedings" was finished in February, 

 and of the eighth volume, the printing of which was begun in March, 

 221 pages were printed prior to the 1st of July. A list of signatures 

 published during the first half of the year is given in Part III of this 

 report. At the present time two Bulletins are in the hands of the 

 printer — No. 29, " Results of Ornithological Explorations in the Com- 

 mander Islands and in Kamtschatka," by Leonhard Stejneger, and 

 No. 30, " Bibliography of publications relafcing to the collection of fossil 

 invertebrates in the U. S. National Museum," including complete lists 

 of the writings of Fielding B. Meek, Charles A. White, and Charles D. 

 Walcott, by John Belknap Marcou.* 



In Part III of this report will be found a detailed list of the publica- 

 tions of the Museum during the half-year, and also a bibliography of 

 the papers by officers of the Museum and by others whose writings are 

 based upon specimens in the collections. The authors of these papers 

 number 60, 28 of whom are connected with the Museum, 13 being hon- 

 orary officers. These papers number 273, and are thus distributed under 

 the following subjects : 



*Thi8 forms Part III of "Bibliographies of American Naturalists." Part I is en- 

 titled "The Published Writings of Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1843-1882," by G. Brown 

 Goode, constituting Bulletin 20, U. S. National Museum; and Part II, "The Pub- 

 lished Writings of Isaac Lea, LL, D.," by Newton Pratt Scudder, constituting Bul- 

 letin 23, U. S. National Museum. * 



