198 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1956 



There were distributed 424,389 copies of publications and miscel- 

 laneous items. Publications: 58 Contributions to knowledge, 32,131 

 Miscellaneous Collections, 9,126 Annual Reports and 16,561 pamphlet 

 copies of Report separates, 629 War Background Studies, 19,463 

 special publications, 231 reports of the Harriman Alaska Expedition, 

 61,060 publications of the National Museum, 17,018 publications of the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, 30,351 publications of the National 

 Collection of Fine Arts, 37 publications of the Astrophysical Observa- 

 tory, 19 publications of the Freer Gallery of Art, 4,137 reports of the 

 American Historical Association, and 1,906 publications not issued 

 by the Smithsonian Institution. Miscellaneous: 202 sets and 10,013 

 prints of North American Wildflowers and 1 Pitcher Plant volume, 

 44,933 Guide Books, 19,713 picture pamphlets, 74,571 postcards and 

 12,180 postcard folders, 4,260 photo sets, 8,482 color slides, 10,621 

 color picture albums, 47,765 information leaflets, 23 New Museum of 

 History and Technology pamphlets, and 98 statuettes. 



The 1956 allotment from Government funds of $162,000 for printing 

 and binding was entirely obligated at the close of the year. 



The Astrophysical Observatory during the year inaugurated a new 

 series entitled Smithsonian Contributions to Astrophysics, which will 

 publish the results of the research of the Observatory and its col- 

 laborators, with particular emphasis on problems of the study of the 

 sun, the earth, and the solar system. At the close of the year the 

 first number of the new series was in press, consisting of a group of 

 papers under the general title "New Horizons in Astronomy" and sup- 

 ported jointly by the National Science Foundation. 



SMITHSONIAN PUBLICATIONS 



Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 



VOLUME 126 



No. 1. The Bromeliaceae of Brazil, by Lyman B. Smith. 290 pp., 129 figs. 

 (Publ.4184.) September 7, 1955. ($3.50.) 



VOLUME 127 



Chazyan and related brachiopods, by G. Arthur Cooper. Pt. I, text, pp. i-xvi+ 

 1-1024; Pt. II, plates (269), with legends, pp. 1025-1245. (Publ. 4253.) June 

 12,1956. ($20.00.) 



VOLUME 128 



No. 5. Revision of some Recent foraminiferal genera, by Alfred R. Loeblich, Jr., 



and Helen Tappan. 37 pp., 4 figs. (Publ. 4214.) July 21, 1955. (45 cents.) 

 No. 7. Lower Cambrian ptychopariid trilobites from the conglomerates of Quebec, 



by Franco Rasetti. 35 pp., 6 pis. (Publ. 4216.) Aug. 11, 1955. (60 cents.) 

 No. 8. A review of the upper Eocene Artiodactyla of North America, by C. Lewis 



Gazin. 96 pp., 18 pis., 2 figs. (Publ. 4217.) September 28, 1955. ($1.60.) 

 No. 9. Distribution and ecology of the marine invertebrates of Point Barrow, 



Alaska, by G. E. MacGinitie. 201 pp., 8 pis., 3 figs. (Publ. 4221.) November 



30,1955. ($2.25.) 



