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and the amount of matter issued was greater than during any 

 other like period in our history. Of the octavo Bulletin there 

 were published Part IV of Vol. XI, with 160 pages of text, 

 comprising the catalogue of type and figured fossils noticed at 

 greater length in another part of this Report; Vol. XIV, 

 consisting of 422 pages, with 63 text figures and 46 plates, 

 and Part I of Vol. XV, consisting of 370 pages, with 172 text 

 figures and 4 plates, descriptive of the Eskimo of Baffin Land 

 and Hudson Bay. Six parts of the quarto Memoirs, belong- 

 ing to different volumes, were put through the press, though 

 three of them were not actually issued until a few days after 

 the end of the year, and therefore bear date of January, 1902. 

 These parts contain in all 766 pages of text, and are illustrated 

 with 82 text figures and 49 plates. 



The publication of The American Museum Journal, 

 which was begun in April, 1900, has been continued, and may 

 now be considered to have passed the experimental stage. 

 Mr. W. K. Gregory, who served the periodical as manag- 

 ing editor during the early and trying portion of its career, 

 desiring to take up work exclusively in the line of verte- 

 brate palaeontology, Dr. E. O. Hovey was asked to assume the 

 editorship of the Journal in September, with Messrs. Chapman, 

 Gratacap and Gregory as an advisory board. Certain changes 

 were instituted in the publication, the principal of which was 

 the addition of an illustrated supplement to each number in 

 the shape of a popular guide leaflet to some exhibit or group 

 of exhibits in the Museum. Before the end of the year 

 two numbers were issued, one with a guide leaflet on the 

 Bird Rock Group, by Frank M. Chapman, and one with a 

 similar description of the Saginaw Valley collection in the 

 Anthropological Department, by Harlan I. Smith. These 

 brochures evidently meet a popular want, for there is constant 

 demand for them on the part of visitors. 



The distribution of the articles in the Bulletin and the 

 Memoirs, according to the departments from which they have 

 emanated, is as follows: 



