g6 Report of the President 



PUBLICATIONS 

 J. A. Allen, Editor 



The current volume of the Bulletin (Vol. XXXV) consists 

 of 808 pages, 27 plates (1 colored), 3 maps and 212 text fig- 

 ures. The 42 articles represent 29 contributors. 

 Technical Parts of seven volumes of the Anthropological 

 Papers have appeared, aggregating 533 pages, with 

 204 text figures and 12 plates. Other technical papers include 

 Volume I of "A Bibliography of Fishes" (730 pages) ; a vol- 

 ume of 228 pages, entitled "Autobiographical Notes and a Bib- 

 liography of the Scientific Publications of Joel Asaph Allen" ; 

 Volume I (New Series) of the Memoirs has been completed 

 by the addition of Table of Contents and Index. The volume 

 comprises 514 pages, 57 plates and 135 text figures. 



The popular publications comprise the Forty-seventh Annual 

 Report of the Trustees; Volume XVI of The American Mu- 

 seum Journal (edited by Miss Mary C. Dicker- 

 pTr laf . son) ; Guide Leaflet No. 44; a second edition of 



Guide Leaflet No. 28 ; Part I of Teachers' Hand- 

 book to the Exhibitions and Collections in the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History; and Guide to the Nature Treasures 

 of New York City. 



The technical and popular publications of the Museum, upon 

 which $45,754.26 has been expended during the past year, bring 

 a large return to the Museum Library, through exchange for 

 the publications of other scientific organizations, and are thus 

 an important source of increase for the Library. 



Following is a detailed list of the technical papers and other 

 publications of the Museum, during 1916, arranged by depart- 

 ments : 



DEPARTMENT OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY 



William Morton Wheeler. "Ants Collected in British Guiana by the 

 Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History during 

 1911." Bull XXXV, pp. 1-14. 



Charles H. T. Townsend. "New and Noteworthy Brazilian Muscoidea 

 Collected by Herbert H. Smith." Bull. XXXV, pp. 15-22. 



