4O2 HANDBOOK OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 



Submitted annually to Congress and published also as Congressional docu- 

 ments. Since 1884 the report of the U. S. National museum forms a 

 separate volume, (v. infra). 



1846-53, reports only; 1854 to date, reports and a general appendix giving a 

 record of the progress in different branches of knowledge, compiled 

 largely from journals in foreign languages and the transactions of learned 

 societies throughout the world (each paper being issued also as a reprint). 



Include the following issued also separately in advance. 



Report of the Secretary . . . 1847-1907. Washington, 1848-1907. 8. 



The first six reports are reprinted in an appendix to the 8th annual report 

 of the Board of regents (for 1853). 



Also various special publications, some of which bear the series title 

 "Smithsonian miscellaneous collections" or "Smithsonian contribu- 

 tions to knowledge," but are not included in the completed volumes of 

 these series. 



With the exception of 17 early publications (1846-53), Shea's Library of aborigi- 

 nal American linguistics (9 vols., 1861-64) an d 2 recent pamphlets, which are 

 listed as A-Z, AA, AB, each volume, part, reprint or special publication has a 

 serial number assigned to it. Titles are given in numerical order in List of 

 publications . . . 1846-1903, by W. J. Rhees (1903; in Sm. misc. coll. v. 44) 

 which contains also tables showing contents of volumes of "Contributions," 

 "Collections" and "Reports." 



Distribution. The -volumes of Contributions and Miscellaneous collections are 

 distributed only to designated public libraries and to learned institutions and 

 societies. A small edition of the separate papers in these two series is printed 

 for sale or exchange. The Annual reports are regularly distributed by the 

 Institution to libraries throughout the world, and only a limited number of the 

 volumes remains to supply demands from other sources ; they are also sold at 

 cost by the Superintendent of documents, Government printing office, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, and each member of Congress has a certain number of copies at 

 his disposal. The papers printed in the Annual reports are published separately 

 for free distribution. Applicants for publications should state the ground of 

 their requests, as the Institution is able to supply papers only as an aid to the 

 research or study in which the applicant is especially interested. No sets of 

 publications are for sale or distribution, as most of the volumes are out of print. 

 For prices, see Classified list of Smithsonian publications available for dis- 

 tribution, Apr. 1907. Washington, 1907. 8. 



Research funds, prizes, &c. The permanent fund of the Institution 

 amounts to about $1,000,000, mainly deposited in the Treasury of the 

 United States and bearing interest at 6% per annum. It is derived 

 from the Smithson endowment, with savings and interest, and subse- 

 quent gifts and bequests, notably those of Thomas G. Hodgkins of 

 Setauket, Long Island, N. Y., amounting to over $250,000. Grants 

 are made by the Institution for various explorations and investiga- 

 tions; in particular, the income from $100,000 of the HODGKINS FUND 



