Report on Publications and Information 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the following report on the publi- 

 cations of the Smithsonian Institution and its branches and on other 

 informational activities for the year ended June 30, 1964 : 



The editorial and publications division, the publishing arm of the 

 Institution, maintains a four-part program. One includes the editing, 

 designing, and publishing of books and reports on explorations and 

 research by staff members and collaborators of the Institution in the 

 fields of science, history, and art, and the production of publications 

 of a more popular nature, such as museum guidebooks, informational 

 leaflets, and art catalogs. The second is the control and distribution 

 of these publications. The third deals with the day-to-day dissemina- 

 tion of information concerning the Smithsonian to the press and the 

 inquiring public; the chief of the division serves as public-relations 

 officer of the Institution. And the fourth covers the printing of ma- 

 terials of a current and emergency nature, such as musemn labels and 

 invitations and announcements of Smithsonian events, in a branch of 

 the Government Printing Office which is housed at the Institution 

 for that purpose. 



PUBLICATIONS PROGRAM 



Ninety-five publications appeared under the Smithsonian imprint 

 during the past year in its various series, as listed below. These pub- 

 lications are issued partly from federally appropriated funds (Smith- 

 sonian Reports and publications of the National Museum, the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology, the National Air Museum, and the Astro- 

 physicial Observatory) and partly from private endowment funds 

 (Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, publications of the Freer 

 Gallery of Art, and some special publications) . The Institution also 

 publishes under the auspices of the Freer Gallery of Art the series 

 Ars Orientalis, which appears under the joint imprint of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan and the Smithsonian Institution. In addition, 

 the Smithsonian publishes for sale to visitors guidebooks, information 

 pamphlets, postcards, folders, and popular publications on scientific 

 and historical subjects related to its important exhibits and collections. 



Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 

 In this series, under the immediate editorship of Mrs. Nancy Link 

 Powars, the following papers were issued : 



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