12 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1954 



Library. — The Smithsonian library received a total of 69,484 pub- 

 lications during the year. Over 500 new exchanges for the library 

 were arranged. Notable among the year's gifts were several hundred 

 zoological publications from the National Museum's former curator of 

 mammals, Gerrit S. Miller, Jr. At the close of the year the holdings 

 of the Smithsonian library and all its branches aggregated 945,562 

 volumes, including 584,590 in the Smithsonian Deposit in the Library 

 of Congress but excluding incomplete volumes of serials and many 

 thousands of separates and reprints from serials. 



Publications. — An organizational change made during the year 

 combined the Editorial Division and the Publications Division into 

 the Editorial and Publications Division. 



Fifty-nine publications were issued under the Smithsonian imprint 

 during the year (see Report on Publications, p. 163, for full list). 

 Outstanding among these were: The 9th revised edition of the 

 Smithsonian Physical Tables, compiled by William E. Forsythe; 

 "Insect Metamorphosis," by R. E. Snodgrass; "The Reproduction of 

 Cockroaches," by Louis M. Roth and Edwin R. Willis; "Songs and 

 Stories of the Ch'uan Miao," by David C. Graham; "Fishes of the 

 Marshall and Marianas Islands," by Leonard P. Schultz et al. ; "Index 

 to Schoolcraft's 'Indian Tribes of the United States'," compiled by 

 Frances S. Nichols; and "The Iroquois Eagle Dance, an Offshoot of 

 the Calumet Dance," by William N. Fenton and Gertrude Prokosch 

 Kurath. In all, 468,600 pieces of printed matter were distributed 

 during the year — 141,953 copies of the publications and 326,647 

 miscellaneous items. 



