150 AINNTJAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1950 



SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



In this series there were issued 10 papers in volume 111, whole 

 volume 112, and whole volume 113, as follows: 



VOLUME 111 



No. 8. Some stages in the evolution of the nervous system and the fore-gut 

 of the polychaet, by Frank Raw. 35 pp., 5 figs. (Publ. 3983.) Aug. 4, 1949. 



No. 9. A new heron and a new owl from Venezuela, by Herbert Friedmann. 

 3 pp. (Publ. 3985.) July 21, 1949. 



No. 10. A collection of fishes from Talara, Perii, by Samuel F. Hildebrand. 

 36 pp., 9 figs. (Publ. 3986.) Aug. 18, 1949. 



No. 11. Larvae of the elaterid beetles of the tribe Lepturoidini (Coleoptera: 

 Elateridae), by Robert Glen. 246 pp., 40 figs. (Publ. 3987.) Apr. 19, 1950. 



No. 12. Note on Fowle's spectroscopic method for the determination of 

 aqueous vapor in the atmosphere, by L. B. Aldrich. 6 pp., 1 pi., 2 figs. (Publ. 

 3989.) Sept. 20, 1949. 



No. 13. Short periodic solar variations and the temperatures of Washington 

 and New York, by C. G. Abbot. 8 pp., 2 figs. (Publ. 3990.) Oct. 4, 1949. 



No. 14. The Abbot silver-disk pyrheliometer, by L. B. Aldrich. 11 pp., 1 pi., 

 1 fig. (Publ. 3991.) Dec. 8, 1949. 



No. 15. The roll call of the Iroquois chiefs. A study of a mnemonic cane 

 from the Six Nations Reserve, by William N. Fenton. 73 pp., 12 pis., 3 figs. 

 (Publ. 3995.) Feb. 16, 1950. 



No. 16. The forms of the black hawk-eagle, by Herbert Friedmann. 4 pp., 

 1 pi. (Publ. 4013.) Feb. 28, 1950. 



No. 17. Periodic influences on Washington and New York weather of 1949 

 and 1950, by C. G. Abbot. 8 pp., 3 figs. (Publ. 4015.) Mar. 22, 1950. 



VOLUME 112 (WHOLE VOLUME) 



Catalog of the termites (Isoptera) of the world, by Thomas E. Snyder. 490 pp. 

 (Publ. 3953.) Nov. 1, 1949. 



VOLUME 113 (WHOLE VOLUME) 



Archeology of the Florida Gulf coast, by Gordon R. Willey. 599 pp., 60 pis., 

 76 figs., 20 maps. (Publ. 3988.) Dec. 29, 1949. 



SMITHSONIAN ANNUAL REPORT 



Report for 1948. — The complete volume of the Annual Report of 

 the Board of Regents for 1948 was received from the Public Printer 

 December 28, 1949: 



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, 1948. ix + 466 pp., 100 pis., 52 figs., 1 chart. (Publ. 3954.) 



The general appendix contained the following papers (Pubis. 



3955-3976) : 



The Astrophysical Observatory of the Smithsonian Institution, by C. G. Abbot. 

 Atomic energy in industry, by H. A. Winne. 



