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The American Museum Journal, Volume V, published in 

 four numbers, with the following Guide Leaflets: 



W. D. Matthew. " The Fossil Carnivores, Marsupials and Small Mam- 

 mals in The American Museum of Natural History." (Leaflet No. 17, Janu- 

 ary, pages 1-41, with 27 text figures.) 



W. D. Matthew. " The Mounted Skeleton of Brontosaurus in The 

 American Museum of Natural History." (Leaflet No. 18, April, pages 1-12, 

 with 4 text figures.) 



R. L. Ditmars. "The Reptiles of the Vicinity of New York City." 

 (Leaflet No. 19, July, pages 87-140, with 47 text figures.) 



R. L. Ditmars. "The Batrachians of the Vicinity of New York City.'' 

 (Leaflet No. 20, October, pages 155-206, with 28 text figures.) 



Department of Maps and Charts. — The classification 

 and rearrangement of the maps and charts have been con- 

 tinued. Large fire-proof cases for storage have been con- 

 structed and equipped to receive the frames to which the 

 maps are bound. 



Contributions to this department have been received from 

 General J. Watts de Peyster, Dr. H. C. Bumpus, Professor 

 Henry F. Osborn and Mr. F. W. Bauer. The accessions have 

 been: 



By Donation Atlases 4 Maps 631 Charts 3 



" Exchange " 3 " 19 " .0 



" Purchase " o " 104 " 47 



Total , 7 754 50 



Attendance. — It is gratifying to report the unusually 

 large increase in the number of visitors to the Museum. The 

 attendance for 1904 was 402,449, a considerable gain over that 

 of previous years, but during 1905, 565,489 visitors were 

 recorded, an increase of more than 25$ over the figures for 

 1904. This growing popularity of the Museum is due in part 

 to the opening of several striking exhibits, particularly the 

 huge Brontosaurus, and the Flamingo and San Joaquin Valley 

 bird groups; to the improvement of the installation of old 

 collections, and to the continued intimate relations between 

 the Museum and the Public Schools. More than 46,000 

 children have visited the Museum in classes for lectures and 



