SECRETARY'S REPORT 271 



Annual report of the American Historical Association for 1962. Vol. 1. Proceed- 

 ings. November 1963. 



Writings in American history, 19.55. Vol. 2 of Annual Report of the American 

 Historical Association for 1957. September 25, 1963. 



Writings in American history, 1956. Vol. 2 of Annual Report of the American 

 Historical Association for 1958. May 28, 1964. 



Report of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution 



In accordance with law, the manuscript of the 66th annual report 

 of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, was 

 transmitted to Congress on February 11, 1964.^ 



DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM 



Requests for publications and infonnation concerning them con- 

 tinued to increase during the year. The publications distribution sec- 

 tion, under the immediate supervision of Mrs. Eileen M. McCarthy, 

 received 39,017 requests for publications from foreign and domestic 

 libraries, universities, research institutions, educational establish- 

 ments, and individuals throughout the world. Visitors to the office 

 and replies to inquiries numbered 33,027. 



A total of 656,330 copies of publications and miscellaneous items 

 were distributed : 10 Contributions to Knowledge; 16,751 Smithsonian 

 Miscellaneous Collections; 7,912 Annual Report Volumes and 22,686 

 pamphlet copies of Report separates; 181,568 special publications; 111 

 reports of tlie Harriman Alaska Expedition; 62,658 publications of 

 the National Museum; 35,314 publications of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology ; 49,002 catalogs and leaflets of the National Collection of 

 Fine Arts; 148 publications of the Freer Gallery of Art; ^ 7 Amials 

 of the Astrophysical Observatory ; 12,965 Smithsonian Contributions 

 to Astrophysics; 678 War Background Studies; 4,987 reports of the 

 American Historical Association; and 53,937 publications not issued 

 by the Smithsonian Institution. Miscellaneous items : 12 sets of North 

 American Wild Flowers and 181 North American Wild Flower prints : 

 3 Pitcher Plant volumes ; 207,400 information leaflets. 



The following titles were issued and distributed to libraries as a 

 result of the Institution's participation in the National Science Foun- 

 dation translation program : 



Fauna of U.S.S.R., Fishes, vol. 2, No. i, Clwpeidae, by A. N. 

 Svetovidov ; Fauna of U.S.S.R., Cimstacea, vol. S, No. 3, Freshwater 

 Cyclopoida, by V. M. Rylov; Fauna of Russia and Adjacent Counr 

 tries, Reptiles, vol. i, Chelonia and Sawia, by A. IM. Nikol'skii; 

 Genus Woodsia R. Br. in Yugoslavia {Genus Woods ia R. Br. V. 



1 D.A.R. reports are published as Senate documents and are not available from the 

 Smithsonian Institution. 

 ' In addition to those distributed by the Gallery itself. 



