Bulletin - United States National Museum

ADVERTISEMENT.
This work (Bulletin No. 33) is the forty-fourth of a series of papers
intended to illustrate the collections of natural history and ethnology
belonging to the United States, and constituting the National Museum,
of which the Smithsonian Institution was placed in charge by the act of
Congress of August 10, 1846.
It has been i^repared at the request of the Institution, and printed
by authority of the honorable Secretary of the Interior.
The publications of the National Museum consists of two series—the
Bulletins, of which this is No. 33, in continuous series, and the Proceedings,
of which the tenth volume is now in press.
The volumes of Proceedings are printed, signature by signature, each
issue having its own date, and a small edition of each signature is distributed
to libraries promptly after its publication.
From time to time the publications of the Museum which have been
issued separately are combined together and issued as volumes of the
Miscellaneous Collections. These are struck off from the stereotype
plates from which the first edition was printed, and in this form are
distributed by the Smithsonian Institution to libraries and scientific
societies throughout the world. Volume 13 of these collections includes.
Bulletins 1 to 10 inclusive ; volume 19, volumes 1 and 2 of the Proceedings;
volume 22, volumes 3 and 4 of the Proceedings; and volume 23,
Bulletins 11 to 15 inclusive.
Full lists of the publications of the Museum may be found in the current
catalogues of the publications of the Smithsonian Institution.
Papers intended for publication in the Proceedings and Bulletins of
the National Museum are referred to the Committee on Publications,
composed as follows : T. H. Bean, A. Howard Clark (editor), Otis T.
Mason, Leonhard Stejneger, Frederick W. True, and Lester F. Ward.
SPENCER F. BAIRD,
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, January 7, 1887.