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University. Our staff in pure science has never been so 

 strong as it is at the present moment, or so united in the 

 spirit of friendly cooperation. The research product of the 

 Museum has grown by leaps and bounds ; the volume of 

 our publications has increased several fold; the popular pub- 

 lications, based on the pure researches of their authors, 

 have spread the scientific influence of the Museum all over 

 the world. It is interesting to observe that these branches 

 of science relinquished by many of our universities are taken 

 up by our museums. 



The details of these explorations, researches and publica- 

 tions are given in the usual reports by the Director and 

 Heads of Departments. A summary of scientific publica- 

 tion during the last five years is as follows : 



Number of 

 Pages 



Natural History of North America 4,959 



" " South America 1.470 



" Asia (Andrews' Expeditions) 205 



" Europe 266 



"■ " Africa (Congo Reports) 1,294 



" " Various Localities 660 



8,854 



In cooperation with the National Museum and other 

 museums, North America from the Arctic to the Isthmus is 



now well covered by our explorations, publica- 

 North tions and photographic collections, including 



Exploration historic and prehistoric races of men, the insects, 



fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, 

 as well as the extinct ancestors of these living groups. Espe- 

 cially noteworthy serial publications on recent explorations, 

 completed or well advanced, are papers on the "Anthropology 

 of the Southwest" with the Archer M. Huntington Fund, the 

 great Bibliography of Fishes with the Jesup Fund, and the six 

 volumes on Fossil Vertebrates with the Jesup Fund. Aided 

 by the Jesup Fund 1 , Professor Osborn, as a member of the 



1 Professor Osborn's research, travel and publication fund is devoted to the 

 salaries of his research assistants and artists engaged in this work, and in part to 

 his own travels. 



