REPORT OF THE SECRET A.RY 13 



Whereas the success of this first National Conference on Outdoor Recreation 

 is due in large measure to the very fine services and facilities made available 

 by the officers of the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum, who 

 have been untiring in their efforts to promote the comfort and convenience 

 of the delegates to the conference : Therefore be it 



Resolved, That the conference hereby expresses its sincere appreciation of 

 the spirit of cordial hospitality displayed by the officers and employees of these 

 great scientific and educational agencies and requests its executive chairman to 

 so advise Dr. Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 and his official associates. 



The annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, which 

 has for many years been held in the National Museum, was held this 

 year for the first time in the academy's new building. The follow- 

 ing resolution passed during the sessions expresses appreciation of 

 the services which the Institution has been able to render to the 

 academy in the past : 



Resolved, That on the occasion of the removal of its offices from the Smith- 

 sonian Institution to its new building, the National Academy of Sciences 

 gratefully expresses its obligations to the Secretary and the Board of Regents 

 of the Smithsonian Institution for the courtesies extended for over half a 

 century through the housing and care of the academy records and library, 

 through its cooperation in the conduct of academy business, and through its 

 effective aid in promoting the objects of the academy ; 



And that the academy expressly acJinowledges its high esteem and thanks 

 to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Charles Doolittle Walcott, 

 for his personal interest in the welfare of the academy, his unfailing interest 

 in and attention to the work of the academy in the advancement of science, 

 and his distinguished services as treasurer, vice president, acting president, 

 president, and member of the council and committees, both official and un- 

 official, in its behalf. 



PUBLICATIONS 



There were issued during the year by the Institution and its 

 branches a total of 70 volumes and pamphlets, of which 142,385 

 copies were distributed, including 407 volumes and separates of the 

 Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, 25,937 volumes and sepa- 

 rates of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 19,085 volumes 

 and separates of the Smithsonian Annual Eeports, 3,743 Smithsonian 

 special publications, 78,734 volumes and separates of the various 

 series of the National Museum publications, 13,974 publications of 

 the Bureau of American Ethnology, 78 publications of the National 

 Gallery of Art, 65 volumes of the Annals of the Astrophysical Ob- 

 servatory, 35 reports on the Harriman Alaska Expedition, and 

 1,275 reports of the American Historical Association. 



The publications of the Institution, now issued in 11 distinct 

 series, are its principal means of carrying out a part of its stated 

 purpose, " the diffusion of knowledge." There is a widespread and 

 growing demand for its publications, not only from specialists for 



