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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



simple task for them to keep track* of the bibliography of their 

 respective Departments. 



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 publications have been 

 limited to the completion of Volume XXVII. , and to the publica- 

 tion of Volume XXIX. of the Bulletin. The Corporation has 

 continued the allowance of $400 made the previous year to aid in 

 the publication of some of the contributions from the Zoological 

 Laboratory. We have this year made the first attempt at joint 

 publication with the Boston Society of Natural History of some 

 of the papers which, while presented to the Society, have yet been 

 worked out at the Zoological Laboratory of the Museum in charge 

 of Professor Mark. The American Academy, the Boston Society of 

 Natural History, and the Museum having agreed upon a uniform 

 type and size for their octavo publications, it may hereafter be 

 possible to publish at joint expense illustrated papers which could 

 not otherwise be published. 



Of the " Albatross " Expedition of 1891 two Bulletins have 

 been published during the past year, Dr. Miiller's Report on the 

 Osttacods, and that of Dr. Goes on the Foraminifera. 



Excellent progress has been made with the Monograph of Pro- 

 fessors Milne-Edwards and Bouvier on the Galathoidse of the 

 " Blake," so that we hope to issue it during the early part of the 

 year. 



The Report of Professor G. Brown Goode and Dr. Tarleton H. 

 Bean on the Deep-Sea Fishes of the " Blake " has been issued as a 

 special Bulletin by the National Museum and the Smithsonian 

 Institution. By agreement with Professor Goode the Report on 

 the collections of the " Blake " was incorporated with that on the 

 collection of Fishes made by the "Fish Hawk" and " Albatross" 

 along the east coast of the United States and in the Caribbean Sea. 

 The Museum has issued as Volume XXII. of the Memoirs this 

 joint publication of Goode and Bean on Oceanic Ichthyology. 



The pressure of other work prevented the late Professor Goode 

 from carrying out his plans regarding a discussion of the geo- 

 graphical and bathymetrical distribution of Deep-Sea Fishes in 

 the publication just completed. It is hoped that this important 



