Appendix VII. 



KEPORT OF THE EDITOR. 



Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report on the publications of the 

 Smithsonian Institution and its bureaus during tlie year ending June 30, 1902. 



I. SMrrHSONIAX contributions to KNOWLEDCiE. 



1309. Hodgkins fund. Experiments with Ionized Air, by Carl Barus, Hazard 

 jn'ofessor of physics in I>ro\vn University. City of Washington: Published Ijy the 

 Smithsonian Institution, 1901. Quarto. Pages x+95. 



801. Experiments in Aerodynamics, by 8. P. Langley. Second edition. (First 

 edition pul)liKhed in 1891.) City of Washington: Published b)^ the Smithsonian 

 Institution, 1902. Quarto. Pages ii+115, with Plates I-XII. 



II. MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS. 



1259. List of Observatories. City of Washington: Publisheil l)y the Smithsonian 

 Institution, 1902. Octavo. Pages 4S. 



1312. Index to the Literature of tlie Sjiectroscope (1887-1900, l)oth inclusive) 

 [continuation of the previous index by the same author pulilished in 1888], by 

 Alfred Tuckerman. Washington City: Published by the Smithsonian Institution, 

 1902. (_)ctav(). Pages iii {-373. This index is l)rought to the end of the year 1900, 

 after wliich date the International Committee for Indexing Scientific Literature 

 begins the continuation of the W'ork of cataloguing spectroscopy. 



1313. A Bibliography of the Analytical Chemistry of Manganese, 1785-1900, )jy 

 Henry P. Talbot and John W. Brown. City of Washington: Published by the 

 Smithsonian Institution, 1902. Octavo. Pages viii+l 24. 



1174. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. XLl. City of Washington: 

 Published by the Smithsonian Institution, 1902. Octavo. Pages v-|-1186. 



CONTENTS. 



Index to llif IJtciiiturL' of Tlialliuin, l,sr,l-189G, ]>y Martlia Doaii. Was!iiiii,'l<iii, ISiHt. (Number 

 1171.) 



Index to the Literature of Zireoiiiiiin, l)y A. ('. Laii.i,Mnuir ami Charles Baskerville. Washington, 

 1899. (Number 1173.) 



A Select Bibliography of Chemistry, 1492-1897, by Henry Carrington Bolton. Section viii. Aca- 

 demic Dissertations. Washington, 1901. (Number 1253.) 



On the Cheapes. Form of Light, by S. 1'. Langley and V. W. Very. Washington, 1901. (Number 

 1258.) 



List of Observatories, Washington, 1902. (Number 12.59.) 



Index to the Literature of the Spectroscope, 1887-1900, l>y Alfred Tuckerman. Washington, 1902. 

 (Number 1;!12. i 



A Bibliography of the Analytical Chemistry of Manganese, 1785-1900, by Henry 1'. Talbot and .John 

 W.Brown. Washington, 1902. (Number i;n3.) 



Chemical Societies of the Nineteenth Century, by Henry Carrington Bolton. Washington, 1902. 

 (Number i:n4.) 



III. SMITHSONIAN ANNUAL REPORTS. 



Tlie annual reix)rt is in two jnirts or A'olumes, one devoted to the Institution proper 

 and the ctlier to the National Mweeum. The Smithsonian volume for 1900 was 

 mentioned in the last report of the editor; tlie volume for 1901 was in type, though 

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