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section, under the immediate direction of Mrs. Eileen M. McCarthy, 

 received 37,609 requests for publications from foreign and domestic 

 libraries, universities, research institutions, educational establishments, 

 and individuals throughout the world. Visitors to the office and re- 

 plies to inquiries numbered 28,938. 



A total of 817,695 copies of publications and miscellaneous items 

 were distributed: 26 Contributions to Knowledge; 34,396 Smithsonian 

 Miscellaneous Collections; 7,801 Annual Report volumes and 33,210 

 pamphlet copies of Eeport separates; 48,328 special publications; 244 

 reports of the Harriman Alaska Expedition; 60,473 publications of 

 the National Museum ; 19,326 publications of the Bureau of American 

 Etlinology; 21,276 publications of the National Collection of Fine 

 Arts; 526 publications of the Freer Gallery of Art^; 21 Annals of 

 the Astrophysical Observatory; 7,674 Smithsonian Contributions to 

 Astrophysics publications; 789 War Background Studies; 3,349 re- 

 ports of the American Historical Association; and 5,800 publications 

 not issued by the Smithsonian Institution. Miscellaneous items: 3 

 sets of North American Wild Flowers and 162 North American Wild 

 Flower prints; 23 Pitcher Plant volumes; 60,384 Guide Books; 17,919 

 picture pamphlets ; 320,441 postcards, 122,753 postcard folders, 18,267 

 color slides; 122,753 information leaflets; 372 statuettes; 3,761 View- 

 master reels. 



The distribution section assisted also in the distribution to libraries 

 of three titles published as a result of the Institution's participation 

 in the translation program of the National Science Foundation: 

 Studies on Crustacea of the Red Sea, part 1, by O. Paul'son ; Fauna 

 of U.S.S.R.: Birds, vol. 2, No. 3, Charadriiformes, Suborder Alcae, 

 by E. V. Kozlova ; and Ecology of Sea Colony Birds of the Barents 

 Sea, by L. O. Belopol'skii. 



SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



In this series, under the immediate editorship of Miss Ruth B. Mac- 

 Manus, there were issued 12 papers as follows : 



Volume 142 



No. 2. Folk religion in Southwest Cbina, by David C. Gratiam. 246 pp., 28 pis., 



10 figs. (Publ. 4457.) November 1, 1961. ($4.) 

 No. 4. Cenozoic and Cretaceous echinoids from Trinidad and Venezuela, by C. 



Wythe Cooke. 35 pp., 14 pis. (Publ. 4459.) August 18, 1961. ($1.25.) 



Volume IJ/S 



No. 3. Supplement to the annotated, subject-heading bibliography of termites, 

 195.5-1960, by Thomas E. Snyder. 137 pp. (Publ. 4463.) December 29, 1961. 

 ($1.50.) 



1 In addition to those dlstribnted by the Gallery itself. 



