REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 93 



VOLUME 86 



Smithsonian Meteorological Tables, Fifth Revised Edition, First Reprint. 

 lxxxvi+282 pp. (Publ.3116.) 



VOLUME 88 



Smithsonian Physical Tables, Eighth Revised Edition, First Reprint, liv+686 

 pp. (Publ. 3171.) 



WAR BACKGROUND STUDIES 



In tlie new series of Smithsonian publications, War Background 

 Studies, tlie following papers were issued : 



No. 1. Origin of the Far Eastern civilizations: a brief handbook, by Carl 

 Whiting Bishop. 53 pp., 12 pis., 21 figs. (Publ. 3681.) Jime 10, 1942. 



No. 2. The evolution of nations, by Jolm R. Swnnton. 23 pp. (Publ. 36S6.) 

 June 24, 1942. 



SMITHSONIAN ANNUAL REPORTS 



Reyort for 19JfO. — The complete volume of the Annual Report of 

 the Board of Regents for 1940 was received from the Public Printer 

 in October 1941. 



Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 

 showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the 

 year ended June 30, 1940. xiii+512 pp., 107 pis., 28 figs. (Publ. 3606.) 



The appendix contained the following papers : 



Solar prominences in motion, by Robert R. McMath. 



The satellites of Jupiter, by Seth B. Nicholson. 



Cultural values of physics, by David Dietz, 



Nuclear fission, by Karl K. Darrow. 



The national standards of measurement, by Lyman J. Briggs. 



The rise of the organic chemical industry in the United States, by 

 C. M. A. Stine. 



The rubber industry, 1839-1939, by W. A. Gibbons. 



The future of man as an inhabitant of the earth, by Kirtley F. Mather. 



The search for oil, by G. M. Lees. 



Perspectives in evolution, by James Ritchie, M. A., D. Sc. 



Animal behavior, by Ernest P. Walker. 



The national wildlife refuge program of the Fish and Wildlife Service, 

 by Ira N. Gabrielson. 



A living fossil, by J. L. B. Smith. 



Insects and the spread of plant diseases, by Walter Carter. 



The Mexican bean beetle, by W. H. White. 



Plant-tissue cultures, by Robert L. W^eintraub. 



The botany and history of Zizania aquatica L. ("wild rice"), by Charles 

 E. Chambliss. 



Prehistoric culture waves from Asia to America, by Diamond Jenness. 



Masked medicine societies of the Iroquois, by William N. Fenton. 



The beginnings of civilization in eastern Asia, by Carl Whiting Bishop. 



Stonehenge: Today and yesterday, by Frank Stevens, O. B. E., F. S. A. 



Sulfanilamide and related chemicals in the treatment of infectious dis- 

 eases, by Wesley W. Spink, M. D. 



