PUBLICATIONS 
den, Holland, under a favorable contract. This firm also publishes 
the "Ethnographical Album." 
The "Anthropological Papers" are really a part of the "Bulletin," Anthropoiog- 
devoted exclusively to the results of field work and other research 
conducted by the anthropological staff of the Museum. They are 
published in octavo volumes of about 350 pages each, issued in parts 
at irregular intervals. The first issue was in 1907. The present 
edition is 600. 
The publication of the "American Museum Journal" was begun American 
in April, 1 900, at the suggestion of Professor Osborn. The "Journal" is f^^'^^ 
a popular record of the progress of the Museum. It was started to give 
to the members and the public the Museum news in popular and interest- 
ing form, and as a medium for the prompt acknowledgment of gifts and 
for making widely known the needs of the Museum. The "Journal" 
has an edition of 3,000 and is issued monthly from October to May. 
It has been the policy of the administration of the Museum so to 
label the exhibits that visitors would have the information desired 
without the use of a voluminous general guide. The interest of the 
public, however, in various collections led Director Bumpus to suggest 
the publication of Guide Leaflets on these special subjects. These Leltilts 
leaflets, now thirty in number, appear irregularly and in editions which 
vary with the popularity of the subject matter discussed. 
Prof. R. P. Whitfield, Curator of Geology, established the form and 
character of the "Bulletin" through the first four articles, which were 
contributed by him and published in 1881 and 1882, but there was no 
definite editor until Prof. J. A. Allen assumed the editorship with the 
issue of Vol. I, Part 5, in 1884. Professor Allen became editor of the 
"Memoirs," likewise, when they were established in 1893. Prof. 
Franz Boas has been the editor of the special series of memoirs pertain- 
ing to the Jesup North Pacific exploration since it was begun. Dr. 
Clark Wissler is the editor of the "Anthropological Papers." Mr. W. 
K. Gregory was made editor of the "American Museum Journal," when 
that was established in 1900, but since October, 1901, Dr. Edmund 
Otis Hovey has been editor of the "Journal" and the Guide Leaflets. 
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