Compiler's Notes
Bulletin 240 was compiled by Tom Cosmas from individual Papers posted on Project Gutenberg and the Index for this volume:
Paper 34 == Produced by Colin Bell, Joseph Cooper, Stephanie Eason
Paper 35 == Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Louise Pattison
Paper 36 == Produced by Colin Bell, Joseph Cooper, Louise Pattison
Paper 37 == Produced by Colin Bell, Joseph Cooper, Louise Pattison
Paper 38 == Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Louise Pattison
Paper 39 == Produced by Colin Bell, Louise Pattison, Joseph Cooper
Paper 40 == Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Louise Pattison
Paper 41 == Produced by Chris Curnow, Tom Cosmas, Joseph Cooper
Paper 42 == Produced by Chris Curnow, Louise Pattison, Joseph Cooper
Paper 43 == Produced by Colin Bell, Louise Pattison, Joseph Cooper
Paper 44 == Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Louise Pattison
They were also assisted by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ()
Transcriber's Notes for each Paper and the Index follows the textof that Paper/Index.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
BULLETIN 240
SMITHSONIAN PRESS
From the
Museum
of History and
Technology
Papers 34-44
On Science and Technology
Publications of the United States National Museum
The scholarly and scientific publications of the United States National Museuminclude two series, Proceedings of the United States National Museum and United StatesNational Museum Bulletin.
In these series, the Museum publishes original articles and monographs dealingwith the collections and work of its constituent museums—The Museum of NaturalHistory and the Museum of History and Technology—setting forth newly acquiredfacts in the fields of anthropology, biology, history, geology, and technology. Copiesof each publication are distributed to libraries, to cultural and scientific organizations,and to specialists and others interested in the different subjects.
The Proceedings, begun in 1878, are intended for the publication, in separateform, of shorter papers from the Museum of Natural History. These are gatheredin volumes, octavo in size, with the publication date of each paper recorded in thetable of contents of the volume.
In the Bulletin series, the first of which