SECRETARY'S REPORT 199 



VOLUME 131 



No. 1. Leading operations of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 1895- 



1955, by C. G. Abbot. 8 pp. (Publ. 4222.) September 22, 1955. (15 cents.) 



No. 2. The last cruise of H. M. S. Loo, by Mendel L. Peterson. 55 pp., 17 pis., 



3 figs. (Publ. 4224.) November 23, 1955. ($1.00.) 



No. 3. Synonymical notes on neotropical flies of the family Tabanidae (Diptera) , 



by G. B. Fairchild. 38 pp. (Publ. 4225.) January 11, 1955. (60 cents.) 

 No. 4. New Cretaceous Brachiopoda from Arizona, by G. Arthur Cooper. 18 pp., 



4 pis. (Publ. 4227.) December 21, 1955. (45 cents.) 



No. 5. A checklist of fossil and prehistoric birds of North America and the West 



Indies, by Alexander Wetmore. 105 pp. (Publ. 4228.) January 25, 1956. (70 



cents.) 

 No. 6. Paleoceue mammalian faunas of the Bison Basin in south-central 



Wyoming, by C. Lewis Gazin. 57 pp., 16 pis., 2 figs. (Publ. 4229.) February 



28, 1956. ($1.00) 



VOLUME 132 



An index to the genera and species of the Foraminifera, Parts 1 and 2, by Charles 

 Davies Sherborn, with foreword by Alfred R. Loeblich. (Reprint of Smith- 

 sonian Miscellaneous Collections Pubis. 856 and 1031.) 485 pp. (Publ. 4226.) 

 August 18, 1955. ($3.50.) 



Annual Reports 

 Report for 195^. — The complete volume of the Annual Report of 



the Board of Regents for 1954 was received from the printer October 



17, 1955 : 



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, 1954. ix+455 pp., 77 pis., 29 figs. (Publ. 4190.) 



The general appendix contained the following papers (Pubis. 4191- 

 4208) : 



The nature of the upper atmosphere, by H. S. W. Massey. 

 Solar influence on the earth, by John W. Evans. 

 Fifty years of flying progress, by Grover Loening. 

 Tektites and the lost planet, by Ralph Stair. 

 On comparing the brain with machines, by D. M. MacKay. 

 A glimpse of incomprehensibles, by George W. Corner. 

 The electron microscope in biology, by Ralph W. G. Wyckoff. 

 The spread of the cattle egret, by Alexander Sprunt, Jr. 

 The migration of mammals, by L. Harrison Matthews. 

 The flight of animals, by James Gray. 

 Botanical studies in Fiji, by Albert C. Smith. 

 The romance of domesticated plants, by Glenn W. Blaydes. 

 The scientific detection of crime, by Charles Sannie\ 

 The great Piltdown hoax, by William L. Straus, Jr. 

 Our State names, by John P. Harrington. 



Shanidar cave, a Paleolithic site in northern Iraq, by Ralph S. Solecki. 

 Medicine, warfare, and history, by John F. Fulton. 



Harriet Lane Johnston and the National Collection of Fine Arts, by Thomas M. 

 Beggs. 



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