SECRETARY'S REPORT 13 



manuscript of a new edition of the Handbook of the Aeronautical Col- 

 lections was nearly completed. 



GaTial Zone Biological Area.— New diesel generators installed at the 

 station now insure an adequate supply of electric current. A number 

 of other necessary improvements were made. During the year 700 

 visitors came to the islands, a hundred more than the previous year; 

 57 of these were scientists who used the facilities of the island to 

 further their various researches, chiefly in biology and photography. 



LIBRARY 



Accessions to the Smithsonian library totaled more than 68,414 

 publications during the j^ear, these coming from more than 100 foreign 

 countries. One of the most notable gifts of the year was a large and 

 valuable collection of books and periodicals on philately presented 

 by Eugene N. Costales, of New York. At the close of the year the 

 holdings of the Smithsonian library and all its branches aggregated 

 941,328 volumes including 584,295 in the Smithsonian Deposit at the 

 Library of Congress but exclusive of incomplete volumes of serials and 

 separates and reprints from serials. 



PUBLICATIONS 



Eighty-one publications were issued under the Smithsonian imprint 

 during the year. (See Appendix 12 for complete list.) Outstanding 

 among these were : "Primitive Fossil Gastropods and Their Bearing 

 on Gastropod Classification," by J. Brookes Elnight; "Structure and 

 Function of the Genitalia in Some American Agelenid Spiders," by 

 Robert L. Gering ; "Dresses of the First Ladies of the White House," 

 by Margaret W. Brown; "The Generic Names of the Beetle Family 

 Staphylinidae," by Richard E. Blackwelder ; "Life Histories of North 

 American Wood Warblers," by A. C. Bent; "Catalog of the Cycle 

 Collection of the Division of Engineering, U. S. National Museum," 

 by Smith Hempstone Oliver ; "The Indian Tribes of North America," 

 by John R. Swanton ; "La Venta, Tabasco : A Study of Olmec Ceramics 

 and Art," by Philip Drucker; and "Prehistoric Settlement Patterns 

 in the Viru Valley, Peru," by Gordon R. Willey. In all, 177,675 copies 

 of Smithsonian publications were distributed during the year. The 

 galley proof of the ninth edition of the Smithsonian Physical Tables 

 was being read by the compiler. Dr. W. E. Forsythe, at the end of 

 the year. 



