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Excerpt from A List and Index of the Publications of the United States National Museum (1875-1946) Forty years have thus elapsed, and it is therefore felt that the present work is long overdue. Inasmuch as publication the diffusion of knowl edge) is one of the two prime functions of the Smithsonian Institution, another complete list is especially appropriate this year (1946) when the one-hundredth anniversary of the Institution's founding is being observed. Since Bulletin 51 has long been out of print, the present list has been made all-inclusive, covering the entire 71-year span of Museum publication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.