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  Report 
  of 
  the 
  President 
  

  

  work 
  in 
  which 
  additional 
  appropriations 
  are 
  more 
  urgently- 
  

   needed 
  and 
  where 
  the 
  expenditure 
  of 
  additional 
  funds 
  would 
  

   yield 
  larger 
  returns 
  for 
  science 
  than 
  here. 
  

  

  The 
  department 
  has 
  received 
  during 
  the 
  year 
  1,870 
  volumes 
  

   and 
  1,025 
  pamphlets, 
  and 
  has 
  classified 
  and 
  catalogued 
  2,632 
  

   separata 
  and 
  1,348 
  volumes. 
  The 
  subscription 
  to 
  the 
  Concilium 
  

   Bibliographicum 
  has 
  been 
  continued, 
  and 
  11,868 
  cards 
  have 
  

   been 
  intercalated 
  in 
  the 
  reference 
  catalogue. 
  A 
  like 
  number 
  

   has 
  been 
  distributed 
  to 
  the 
  series 
  on 
  deposit. 
  

  

  PUBLICATIONS 
  

  

  The 
  sum 
  expended 
  by 
  the 
  Museum 
  in 
  1908 
  for 
  its 
  publica- 
  

   tions, 
  in 
  addition 
  to 
  regular 
  salaries, 
  was 
  $20,103.23, 
  an 
  

   amount 
  indicative 
  of 
  the 
  extent 
  of 
  the 
  researches 
  of 
  the 
  

   Museum 
  staff. 
  

  

  A 
  full 
  list 
  of 
  the 
  scientific 
  publications 
  of 
  the 
  Museum 
  

   issued 
  in 
  1908, 
  as 
  received 
  by 
  the 
  Curator" 
  for 
  distribution, 
  

   follows: 
  

  

  DEPARTMENT 
  OF 
  GEOLOGY 
  AND 
  INVERTEBRATE 
  PALAEONTOLOGY 
  

  

  Bulletin, 
  Volume 
  XXIV 
  

   R. 
  P. 
  Whitfield. 
  ' 
  ' 
  Notes 
  and 
  Observations 
  on 
  Carboniferous 
  Fossils 
  

   and 
  Semifossil 
  Shells, 
  (brought 
  Home 
  by 
  Members 
  of 
  the 
  Peary 
  Expedition 
  of 
  

   1905-1906." 
  (Pages 
  51-59, 
  plates 
  i-iv.) 
  

  

  DEPARTMENT 
  OF 
  MAMMALOGY 
  AND 
  ORNITHOLOGY 
  

  

  Bulletin, 
  Volume 
  XXIV 
  

  

  J. 
  A. 
  Allen. 
  "A 
  List 
  of 
  the 
  Genera 
  and 
  Subgenera 
  of 
  North 
  American 
  

   Birds, 
  with 
  their 
  Types, 
  according 
  to 
  Article 
  30 
  of 
  the 
  International 
  Code 
  of 
  

   Zoological 
  Nomenclature." 
  (Pages 
  1-50.) 
  

  

  J. 
  A. 
  Allen. 
  "Pennant's 
  'Indian 
  Zoology.'" 
  (Pages 
  111-116.) 
  

  

  J. 
  A. 
  Allen. 
  "The 
  North 
  Atlantic 
  Right 
  Whale 
  and 
  its 
  Near 
  Allies." 
  

   (Pages 
  277-330, 
  plates 
  xix-xxiv, 
  with 
  1 
  text 
  figure.) 
  

  

  J. 
  A. 
  Allen. 
  "The 
  Peary 
  Caribou 
  (Rangifer 
  pearyi 
  Allen)." 
  (Pages 
  

   487-504, 
  with 
  12 
  text 
  figures.) 
  

  

  J. 
  A. 
  Allen. 
  " 
  Notes 
  on 
  Solenodon 
  paradoxus 
  Brandt." 
  (Pages 
  505-518, 
  

   plates 
  xxviii-xxxiii, 
  with 
  9 
  text 
  figures.) 
  

  

  J. 
  A. 
  Allen. 
  " 
  Mammalogical 
  Notes." 
  (Pages 
  579-589, 
  with 
  4 
  text 
  

   figures.) 
  

  

  J.A.Allen. 
  "Mammals 
  from 
  Nicaragua." 
  (Pages 
  647-670, 
  with 
  12 
  

   text 
  figures.) 
  

  

  Roy 
  C. 
  Andrews. 
  "Notes 
  upon 
  the 
  External 
  and 
  Internal 
  Anatomy 
  of 
  

   Balcena 
  glacialis 
  Bonn." 
  (Pages 
  171-182, 
  with 
  6 
  text 
  figures.) 
  

  

  

  