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The Osborn Library of Vertebrate Palaeontology has been 



administered as a distinct departmental library. The assistant 



_ , in charge has revised and rearranged the entire 



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author catalogue besides giving much time to special 



work relating to bibliography, analytic references 



and the exchanges. The shelf space is entirely inadequate and 



an expansion of this part of the equipment is much needed. 



PUBLICATIONS 



J. A. Allen, Editor 



The publications of a museum form the principal index of 



its scientific activity, for it is through its publications, scien- 



„ . .,. tine and popular, that the results of its 



Scientific . , ! 



_ , ,. . explorations and investigations are presented 



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to the public. In this respect the institution 



has made a creditable showing during the year. Forty-six 

 technical or scientific papers have been published in the 

 Bulletin, Anthropological Papers and Memoirs. Also during the 

 year the first of the Monographs appeared, "A Review 

 of the Primates," by Daniel Giraud Elliot, in three royal 

 octavo volumes. These volumes aggregate 1,360 pages, with 

 128 halftone plates of skulls and figures from life, and 28 

 colored plates. This work forms the largest and most impor- 

 tant single zoological publication thus far undertaken by the 

 Museum. 



There are also being issued a series of oceanographic 

 papers, the results of the expedition to the Gulf of California in 

 the U. S. S. "Albatross," under Charles H. Townsend, which, 

 through the liberality of Arthur Curtiss James, was undertaken 

 in cooperation with the United States Bureau of Fisheries. 



The following papers have been issued : 



1. " The Northern Elephant Seal," by Charles H. Townsend. 



Published by the New York Zoological Society, 191 1, in 

 Zoologica. 



2. "Mammals Collected in Lower California," by Charles H. 



Townsend. 

 Published by the American Museum of Natural History, 

 1912, in the Bulletin. 



