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ANNUAL REPORTS 



Report for 1953. — The complete volume of the Annual Report of 

 the Board of Regents for 1953 was received from the printer Sep- 

 tember 2, 1954: 



Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution showing 

 the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 

 ended June 30, 1953. 481 pp., 83 pis., 27 figs. (Publ. 4149.) 



The general appendix contained the following papers (Pubis. 4150- 

 4168) : 



Science, art, and education, by R. E. Gibson. 



Recent progress in astronomical photography, by C. E. Kenneth Mees. 



Radioisotopes — New keys to knowledge, by Paul C. Aebersold. 



The push-button factory, by Frank K. Shallenberger. 



The science of musical instruments, by E. G. Richardson. 



Genetics and the world today, by Curt Stern. 



Climate and race, by Carleton Coon. 



Vegetation management for rights-of-way and roadsides, by Frank E. Egler. 



Applied systematics: The usefulness of scientific names of animals and plants, 



by Waldo L. Schmitt. 

 The geological history and evolution of insects, by F. M. Carpenter. 

 The coelacanth fishes, by Errol White. 



Barro Colorado — Tropical island laboratory, by Lloyd Glenn Ingles. 

 Norsemen in North America before Columbus, by Johannes Br0ndsted. 

 The mountain village of Dahr, Lebanon, by Raymond E. Crist. 

 The problem of dating the Dead Sea Scrolls, by John C. Trever. 

 Kinreizuka — The "Golden Bells Tomb" of Japan, by Motosaburo Hirano and 



Hiroshi Takiguchi. 

 The archeology of colonial Williamsburg, by Thomas J. Wertenbaker. 

 The story of the Declaration of Independence desk and how it came to the 



National Museum, by Margaret W. Brown. 

 Charles Bird King, painter of Indian visitors to the Nation's Capital, by John C. 



Ewers. 



Report for 195If. — The Report of the Secretary, which will form 

 part of the Annual Report of the Board of Regents to Congress, was 

 issued January 14, 1955 : 



Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and financial report of 

 the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents for the year ended June 30, 

 1954. 175 pp., 4 pis. (Publ. 4182.) 



SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS 



History under the sea, by Mendel L. Peterson. 16 pp., 7 pis. (Publ. 4174.) 

 [August 9], 1954. (25 cents.) 



Bess Wallace Truman, by Margaret W. Brown. (Supplement to "Dresses of 

 the First Ladies of the White House," by Margaret W. Brown. Publ. 40G0.) 

 4 pp., 2 pis. [September 1], 1954. (50 cents.) 



Masters of the Air, by Glenn O. Blough. 32 pp., illustr. (Publ. 4183) . [Decem- 

 ber 16], 1954. (50 cents.) 



First Ladies Hall, by Margaret W. Brown. 10 pp., 8 pis. (Publ. 4212.) [May 

 25], 1955. (25 cents.) 



