Report of the President. 2 7 



Nov. 6. — Japan Mr. A. C. Maclay. 



13. — Japanese Feudalism and Its Castles Mr. A. C. Maclay. 



20. — China and the Chinese Mr. Guy Morrison Walker. 



27. — Imperial India Dr. John C. Bowker. 



Dec. 4. — " Burmah." Mr. Gerhard J. Schilling. 



" 11. — The Muslim World Dr. Thomas P. Hughes. 



iS. — Asiatic Manners and Customs Mr. George Donaldson. 



The New York Botanical Garden. 



Apr. 5. — Report of Progress on the Development of the Garden. 



Dr. N. L. Britton. 

 ' 12. — The Relation of Light and Color to Plants Dr. D. MacDougall. 



The Linnean Society of New York City. 

 Jan. 11. — A Naturalist in Cuba Mr. Frank M. Chapman. 



The New York Mineralogical Club. 



Jan. iS. — Geysers ; their Action and Mineralogical Products. 



Dr. T. A. Jaggar, Jr. 

 25. — The Black Hills of South Dakota ; their Geology and Mineralogy. 



Dr. E. O. Hovey. 



Publications. — The publications issued by the Museum during 

 1900 greatly exceed those of any preceding year. They include 

 Vol. XIII of the Bulletin, consisting of pages i-x, 1-330, with 19 

 plates and 216 text figures; Part III of Volume XI, pages 189- 

 356; Part VI of Volume I of the Memoirs ; Parts IV, V and VI 

 of Volume II, completing the Volume, and Part I of Volume IV. 

 Also Part I of the "Ethnographical Album of the North Pacific 

 Coast of North America and Asia," and five numbers of " The 

 American Museum Journal," the publication of which was begun 

 during the present year. The list of articles in the Bulletin and 

 Memoirs published in 1900, arranged by Departments, is as follows: 



DEPARTMENT OF INVERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY. 



Catalogue of Types and Figured Specimens in the Palreontological Collection 

 of the Geological Department, American Museum of Natural History. By R. 

 P. Whitfield, assisted by E. O. Plovey. (Bull. XI, pp. 189-356.) 



Observations on and Descriptions of Arctic Fossils. By R. P. Whitfield. 

 (Bull. XIII, pp. 19-22, pll. i and ii.) 



Description of a New Crinoid from Indiana. By R. P. Whitfield. (Bull. 

 XIII, pp. 23, 24, pi. iii.) 



Note on Principal Type Specimen of Mosasaurus maximus Cope, with illus- 

 trations. By R. P. Whitfield. (Bull. XIII, pp. 25-29, pll. iv and v.) 



Note on an Interesting Specimen of Calcite from Joplin, Missouri. By L. 

 P. Gratacap. (Bull. XIII, pp. 95-97, pi. vi, and 4 text figures.) 



