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The Osborn Library. — The Osborn Library of Vertebrate 

 Palaeontology contains 1,524 volumes and 4,000 pamphlets. 

 In planning for its further development, it is intended to 

 place in this library all the works relating to vertebrate 

 palaeontology and thus make it a distinct unit in itself. 



On January first Miss Jannette Lucas was appointed an 

 assistant in the department and was placed in charge of the 

 Osborn Library. Much time has been given to taking an 

 inventory and arranging the catalog, to introducing an acces- 

 sion system and elaborating the bibliographic index. Not- 

 withstanding many impediments the work has progressed well 

 and Miss Lucas is to be commended for her efforts and success. 



PUBLICATIONS 

 J. A. Allen, Editor 



The current publications of the American Museum of 

 Natural History consist of the Annual Report, the Bulletin, 

 the Memoirs, the Monographs, the Anthropological Papers and 

 the American Museum Journal. 



The Bulletin is a strictly scientific publication in which are 

 published the shorter articles embodying the results of the 

 research work of the various departments of the Museum. 

 The papers composing it are less voluminous and of more 

 general interest than those which appear in the Memoirs and 

 Monographs. The Bulletin was founded in 1881, and thirty-one 

 volumes have been issued. 



The Memoirs, like the Bulletin, are strictly scientific, but 

 are devoted to special articles requiring larger illustrations 

 and more exhaustive treatment. They have been published 

 at irregular intervals since 1893. Ten complete volumes and 

 parts of five others have been issued. During the present 

 year the first series of the Memoirs has been closed and a 

 second series opened, of which Parts 1-3 of Volume I have 

 been published and a fourth part is in press. 



The Monographs, intermediate in size between the Bulletin 

 (in octavo) and the Memoirs (in quarto), of which the first has 

 been printed during the year, will include technical papers 

 relating to single subjects which require elaborate treatment. 



