Appendix VII. 



REPORT OF THE EDITOR. 



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

 Rniithsonian Institution and its bureaus during the year ending June oO, 190;^: 



I. CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE. 



To the series of Contributions four memoirs have been added during the last year. 



1413. Hodgkins fund. On the Al)Sorption and Emission of Air and its Ingre- 

 dients of Wave Lengths from 250 /.tn to 100 /.lu. By Victor Schumann. City of 

 Washington: Published by the Smithsonian Institution, 1908. Quarto. Pages iv, 

 80, 4 plates. Part of Vol. XXIX. 



1414. The Whalebone Whales of the Western Nortli Atlantic Compared witli tliose 

 Occurring in European Waters with Sduie ( )l>servations on the Species of the North 

 Pacific. P>y Frederick W. True. City of Washington: Published by the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, 1904. (Quarto. Pages vii, 332, 50 i)lates, 97 text figures. Vol. 

 XXXIII, Contributions to Knowledge. [In press.] 



1438. A Comparison of Features of the Earth and the Moon. By N. S. Shaler. City 

 of Washington: Published by the Smithsonian Institution, 1903. Quarto. Pages v, 

 79 (explanation of plates, pp. 81-130), 25 plates. Part of Vol. XXXIV. 



1459. On the Construction of a Silvered Glass Telescope of Fifteen and a half Inches 

 in Aperture, and its Use in Celestial Photography, by Henry Draper; and The ^lodern 

 Reflecting Telescope and the Making and Testing of Optical INIirrors, by George W. 

 Kitchey. City of Washington: Pul)lished by the Smithsonian Institution, 1904. 

 Quarto. Pages 55 + 51, 13 plates. [In press.] Part of Vol. XXXIV. 



II. SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS. 



To the Miscellaneous Collections 36 numbers have been added, most of them being 

 articles published in the Quarterly Issue recently established to meet a special need 

 for early publication of scientific papers. 



1374. Index to the Literature of Thorium, 1817-1902. By Cavalier II. Joiut. 

 City of Washington: Published by the Smithsonian Institution. Octavo. Pa^es 

 154. 



1417. Phylogeny of Fusus and its Allies. By Amadeus W. Grabau. Octavo. 

 Pages III, 157 (158-192 explanation of plates), 18 plates, 21 text figures. 



1419. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. XLV. (Quarterly Issue, Vol. I, 

 parts 1-2. July-September, 1903. ) City of Washington: Published liy the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, 1904. Octavo. Pages 223, 56 plates, 28 text figures. 



1420. Seventy New Malayan Mammals. By Gerrit S. Miller, jr. Reprinted from 

 Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections (Quarterly Issue), Vol. XliV. Pages 1-73, 

 plates i-xix, 1 text figure. 



1421. Recent Studies of the Solar Constant of Radiation. By C. G. Abbot. 

 Reprinted from Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections (Quarterly Issue), Vol. XLV. 

 Pages 74-83, plates xx-xxii. 



1422. The newCoelostat and Horizontal Telescope of tlie Astrophysical Observatory 

 of the Smithsonian Institution. By C. G. Abbot. Reprinted from the Smithsonian 

 Miscellaneous Collections (Quarterly Issue), Vol. XLV. Pages 84-90, plate xxiii. 



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