APPENDIX 11 

 REPORT ON PUBLICATIONS 



Sik: I have the honor to submit the following report on the pub- 

 lications of the Smithsonian Institution and the Government 

 branches under its administrative charge during the year ended 

 June 30, 1940: 



The Institution published during the year 16 papers in the series 

 of Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 1 annual report and pam- 

 phlet copies of 27 articles in the report appendix, and 1 special 

 publication. 



The United States National Museum issued 1 annual report, 27 

 separate Proceedings papers, 1 Bulletin, and 1 Contributions from 

 the United States National Herbarium. 



The Bureau of American Ethnology issued three bulletins. 



Of the publications there were distributed 146,156 copies, which 

 included 56 volumes and separates of the Smithsonian Contributions 

 to Knowledge, 36,872 volumes and separates of the Smithsonian 

 Miscellaneous Collections, 25,266 volumes and separates of the Smith- 

 sonian Annual Reports, 3,150 Smithsonian special publications, 

 65,961 volumes and separates of the National Museum publications, 

 13,984 publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 11 pub- 

 lications of the National Collection of Fine Arts (formerly the 

 National Gallerj^ of Art), 3 publications of the Freer Gallery of 

 Art, 35 re})orts of the Harriman Alaska Expedition, 16 annals of 

 the Astrophysical Observatory, and 714 reports of the American 

 Historical Association. 



SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



There were issued 2 papers of volume 91, 8 papers and title 

 page and table of contents of volume 98, 5 papers of volume 99, and 

 volume 100 (whole volume), making 16 papers in all, as follows: 



VOLUME 91 



No. 30. A new cornucopina (Bryozoa) from the West Indies, by Raymond C. 

 Osburn. 3 pp., 2 pis. (Publ. 3584.) March 14, 1940. 



No. 31. A new genusi and species of eel from the Puerto Ricau Deep, by 

 Earl D. Reid. 5 pp. (Publ. .3585.) March 11, 1940. 

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