REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 159 



The microbiotics, by John N. McDonnell. 



A brief summary of the Smithsonian Institution's part in World War II. 



Report for 191^6. — The Keport of the Secretary, which included the 

 financial report of the executive committee of the Board of Regents, 

 and which will form part of the Annual Report of the Board of 

 Regents to Congress, was issued January 7, 1947 : 



Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Infftitutlon and financial report 

 of the executive committe of the Boai-d of Regents for the year ended June 30, 

 1946. ix+134 pp., 2 pis. (Publ. 3864.) 1947. 



The Report volume for 1946, containing the general appendix, was 

 in press at the close of the year. 



SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS 



The first hundred years of the Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1946, by Webster 

 P. True, viii+64 pp., 41 pis. (Publ. C.) Aug. 10, 1946. 



The Smithsonian Institution edition of etchings and drypoints by Charles W. 

 Dahlgreen. Catalogue. 19 pp., 71 illustrations. 1946. 



Classified list of Smithsonian publications available for distribution Decem- 

 ber 1, 1946, compiled by Helen Munroe. 53 pp. (Publ. 3858.) 1946. 



PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



The editorial work of the National Museum has continued during 

 the year under the immediate direction of the editor, Paul H. Oehser. 

 There were issued 1 Annual Report, 8 Proceedings papers, 3 Bulletins, 

 and 2 separate papers in the bulletin series, Contributions from the 

 United States National Herbarium. 



RETORTS 



Report on the progress and condition of the United States National Museum 

 for the year ended June 30, 1946. iii+113 pp. Jan. 14, 1947, 



PROCEEDINGS : VOLUME 9 5 



Title page, table of contents, list of illustrations, and index. Pp. i-viii, 615-047. 

 Mar. 24, 1947. 



VOLUME 96 



No. 3200. Eight new species of chalcid-flies of the genus Pseudaphycus Clausen, 

 with a key to the species, by A. B. Gahan. Pp. 311-327. Nov. 22, 1946. 



No. 3201. New cerambycid beetles belonging to the tribe DisteniinI from Cen- 

 tral and South America, by W. S. Fisher. Pp. 329-333. Nov. 26, 1946. 



No. 3202. Machaeroides eotlicn Matthew, the sabertooth creodont of the 

 Bridger Eocene, by C. Lewis Gazin. Pp. 335-347, pis. 45-46. Dec. 16, 1946. 



No. 3203. Review of some chalcidoid genera related to Cerocephala Westwood, 

 by A. B. Gahan. Pp. 349-376, pis. 47, 48. Dec. 31, 1946. 



No. 3204. A revision of the genera of mullets, fishes of the family Mugilidae, 

 with descriptions of three new genera, by Leonard P. Schultz. Pp. 377-395, 

 figs. 28-32. Dec. 5, 1946. 



No. 3205. The phorid flies of Guam, by G. E. Bohart. Pp. 397-416, figs. 

 38-48. Feb. 17, 1947. 



