24 Report of the President. 



The department has received during the year 2,652 volumes 

 and 1,148 pamphlets, making the working library at the close 

 of 1906 number about 34,666 books and 17,732 pamphlets. 

 Among the important accessions of the year should be men- 

 tioned two superbly illustrated volumes on "Jade," by the 

 late Heber R. Bishop, presented to the Museum by the 

 Executors of his Estate, and the books, pamphlets and sepa- 

 rates that have been received from Dr. Allen, Dr. Wheeler and 

 Dr. Bumpus, whose private libraries had already been given 

 to the Museum. All gifts and exchanges have been duly 

 acknowledged. 



The reference catalogue has been increased by the inter- 

 calation of 15,967 cards received from the Concilium Bibli- 

 ographicum, and a like number has been distributed to the 

 series on deposit. A great many visiting scientists have made 

 use of the library. 



The Curator is the official custodian of all works of art, 

 and in his care have been placed the busts of the pioneers of 

 American science, which were given to the Museum by your 

 President. These busts occupy niches in the foyer of the 

 Museum, and were unveiled with impressive ceremonies dur- 

 ing "Convocation Week." A full report of these ceremonies 

 is now being printed and will soon be issued. The scientists 

 thus represented are: 



Benjamin Franklin, Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, 



Alexander von Humboldt, James Dwight Dana, 



John James Audubon, Spencer Fullerton Baird, 



John Torrey, Joseph Leidy, 



Joseph Henry, Edward Drinker Cope. 



Following is a list of the scientific publications of the 

 Museum issued in 1906, as received by the Curator for distri- 

 bution and exchange: 



DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND INVERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY. 



Bulletin, Volume XXII. 



R. P. Whitfield. "Notes on Some Jurassic Fossils from Franz Josef 

 Land, brought by a Member of the Ziegler Exploring Expedition." (Pages 

 131-134, plates xviii, xix.). 



