10 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



lection, a Western Hemisphere collection, and ultimately a fairly 

 representative general collection, each of which Mr. Scott hopes 

 to illustrate, according to the plan pursued in the collection now 

 on exhibition. 



The Library has received either in exchange or by gift and pur- 

 chase the usual number of accessions. The number of volumes is 

 now nearly twenty-five thousand. 



A list of the publications of the Officers and Instructors of the 

 Museum, other than those contained in our Memoirs and Bulletins, 

 will be found accompanying the special reports. 



For a complete List of the Publications of the Museum during 

 the past year I refer to Appendix A. The amount of our pub- 

 lications has been exceptionally large, owing to the number of 

 Reports of the u Albatross " Expedition of 1891, as well as the 

 Reports on my expeditions to the Bermudas and Bahamas and 

 Cuba on the " Wild Duck," forming Volume XXVI. of the Bul- 

 letin (282 pp. and 77 Plates). Connected with the latter we have 

 published as the last number of Volume XVI. of the Bulletin, 

 which had remained uncompleted for many years, a Report by 

 Professor R. T. Hill of the United States Geological Survey on 

 his exploration of the island of Cuba. We have also issued the 

 first number of the third volume of the Geological Scries, Vol. 

 XXVIII. No. 1. The principal Reports relating to the " Alba- 

 tross" are the Memoir on the Holothurians by Professor H. 

 Ludwig of Bonn, containing a number of colored figures of abys- 

 sal Holothuroidea (183 pp. and 19 Plates), and the Memoir on the 

 Crustacea by Mr. Faxon, with ten colored Plates of deep-sea types 

 (Vol. XVII. pp. 292, 67 Plates and 1 Chart). In the Bulletin 

 have appeared the Reports of Dr. Ortman on the Schizopods, of 

 Dr. Bergh on the Opisthobranchs, of Dr. Giesbrecht on the Cope- 

 pods, of Dr. Hartlaub on the Comatulos, and of Mr. Townsend 

 on the Birds of Cocos Island and Malpelo, and by Dr. Dall and 

 Mr. A. G. Mayer on some of the collections made by the '* Wild 

 Duck." 



The Corporation made the Zoological Department a grant of 

 $400 to aid in the publication of some of the contributions from 

 the Zoological Laboratory, which either have appeared in Volume 

 XXVII. of the Bulletin, or are in the hands of the printer. 



The Memoir by Mr. Garman on the Cyprinodonts (180 pp. and 

 12 Plates), mentioned in the last Report, has also been published. 



