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preparing an index to the publications of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, National Museum, Astrophysical Observatory, and Bureau of 

 American Ethnology. This will be a dictionary index and will at 

 first be on Library of Congress cards. Cards for all the publications, 

 except volumes 1 to 3G of the Proceedings of the National Museum, 

 are already available, and the Smithsonian library staff will soon 

 set about supplying manuscript to the Library of Congress for the 

 printing of cards for these volumes. It is hoped that if some day 

 the Institution is in position to publish the index, the material for 

 it will be ready. The need for such an index is, of course, apparent 

 to everyone. 



Kespectfully submitted. 



Wn^LiAM L. CoKBiN, Librarian. 



Dr. Charles G. Abbot, 



Secretary/ ^ Smithsonian Institution. 

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