Report on Publications 



Sm : I have the honor to submit the following report on the publica- 

 tions of the Smithsonian Institution and its branches for the year 

 ended June 30, 1963 : 



The publications of the Smithsonian Institution are issued partly 

 from federally appropriated funds (Smitlisonian Reports and publica- 

 tions of the National Museum, the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 and the Astrophysical Observatory) and partly from private endow- 

 ment funds (Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, publications of 

 the Freer Gallery of Art, and some special publications) . The Institu- 

 tion also edits and publishes imder the auspices of the Freer Gallery 

 of Art the series Ars Orientalis, which appears under the joint imprint 

 of the University of Michigan and the Smithsonian Institution. In 

 addition, the Smithsonian publishes for sale to visitors a guidebook, 

 a picture pamphlet, postcards and a postcard folder, color slides, a 

 filmstrip on Smithsonian exhibits, a coloring book for children, and 

 popular publications on scientific and historical subjects related to its 

 important exhibits and collections. Through its publication program 

 the Smithsonian endeavors to carry out its founder's expressed desire 

 for the diffusion of knowledge. 



The chief of the division continued to represent the Smithsonian 

 Institution on the board of trustees of the Greater Washington Educa- 

 tional Television Association, Inc., of which the Institution is a mem- 

 ber, and served on its executive committee. He and the assistant chief 

 of the division represented the Institution at the annual meeting of 

 the Association of American University Presses held in June at Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. 



Miss Ruth B. MacManus, assistant editor, who had been associated 

 with the editorial operations of the Smithsonian Institution since 1928, 

 died on November 17, 1962. 



Ernest E. Biebighauser, a member of the editorial staff since 1953, 

 left the Institution on January 7, 1963, to accept a position with the 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey of the Department of Commerce. 



SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



In this series there were issued 3 papers as follows : 



Volume H5 



No. 3. The problem of the Viduinae in the light of recent publications, by Her- 

 bert Friedmann. 10 pp. (Publ. 4506.) July 20, 1962. (50 cents.) 



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