8 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



time has been given over chiefly to the improvement of the research 

 collections of mammals and birds; he has made over in a most 

 satisfactory manner a very large number of skins. For exhibition, 

 Mr. Fuller has mounted the young Bison received last year from 

 Dr. W. L. Smith and for the New England collection of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History, he has remounted the Whooping Crane 

 killed in the summer of 1908 in Connecticut. 



The Library contains 55,184 volumes and 55,808 pamphlets; 

 757 volumes and 3,309 pamphlets have been added during the 

 year; these figures are according to the principle that every 

 printed publication of one hundred pages is recorded as a volume, 

 one of less than one hundred pages as a pamphlet. 



The publications of the year include two parts of volume 43 

 of the Memoirs, fourteen numbers of the Bulletin and the Annual 

 Report, a total of 787 (208 quarto and 579 octavo) pages, illus- 

 trated by 66 (38 quarto and 28 octavo) plates. Volume 43 of 

 the Memoirs, a review of the American characins by Prof. C. H. 

 Eigenmann, will be completed in five parts with 101 plates. 

 This Memoir is based largely upon the immense collection obtained 

 by the Nathaniel Thayer expedition to Brazil. The plates are 

 printed and the parts will be issued as rapidly as the interests of 

 the Museum as a whole will allow. Eight numbers of the Bulletin 

 contain reports on Museum collections, and three numbers pub- 

 lished as Contributions from the Bussey Institution are based, 

 wholly or in part, upon Museum collections; one number contains 

 an account of the ophiurans collected during two of the Albatross 

 expeditions to the Pacific carried on under the direction of Mr. 

 Agassiz; one number contains the seventh annual report of the 

 Harvard Seismographic Station, and another a detailed illustrated 

 description of the Harvard deep-sea thermograph, an ingenious 

 instrument working satisfactorily in waters of moderate depth, 

 though as yet not tested in deep water. The eighty plates for 

 Dr. Chamberlin's memoir on the Albatross Pacific polychaete 

 annelids have been printed. Professor Verrill's report on the 

 Blake alcyonarians will be illustrated by 140 plates, and this 

 series of plates has been completed during the year as have those 

 for two memoirs, one (10 plates), on the Albatross Dolabellinae, 

 and one (14 plates), on the Atlantic Solenogastres. 



Toward the publication of the Report of the Seismographic 

 Station, the Corporation granted $200. 



Samuel Henshaw, 



Director. 



