1961-1962 - American Museum of Natural History

the Library borrowed for use by Museum scientists a total of
only 89 volumes.
The seriousness of the binding backlog continues to plague
us and is by all odds our most pressing immediate problem.
The 1961-1962 budget allowed us to bind 760 volumes, some
200 more than the previous year. Nonetheless, the backlog
has been increased by 1500 volumes, and we are now in arrears
to a total of 26,500 volumes.
PUBLICATIONS
Ruth Tyler, Chairman, Publications Committee
The publishing activities of the Museum include both scientific
and popular publications. Scientific Publications, a service
department for the scientific staff, is responsible for the editing
and putting through the presses of the technical reports that
are submitted to the three series American Museum Novitates,
Anthropological Papers, and the Bulletin. These papers represent
progress reports on continuing research by members of
the staff, reports of the findings and the collected data of expeditions,
or definitive summaries, in the form of monographs,
of completed phases of long-term research programs.
The production of the department for the year was: American
Museum Novitates, 63 papers representing 1464 printed pages;
Anthropological Papers, three papers, 466 printed pages; Bulletin,
ten papers, 754 printed pages. The separate publication
of the James Arthur Lecture on the Evolution of the Human
Brain for 1960 (32 printed pages) brought the total production
of the department during the year to 2716 printed pages.
The major development of the year which will affect the
popular publications program was the maturation of plans for
the establishment by Doubleday & Company, Inc. of the Natural
History Press. Details of the new enterprise are given in the
report of the President.
Twenty-three titles were published in the Natural History
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