SECRETARY'S REPORT 165 



VOLUME 123 



No. 1. Songs and stories of the Ch'uan Miao, by David C Graham. 336 pp., 

 24 pis., 1 fig. (Publ. 4139.) Apr. 8, 1954. ($4.00.) 



ANNUAL REPORTS 



Report for 1952. — The complete volume of the Annual Keport of 

 the Board of Kegents for 1952 was received from the printer Septem- 

 ber 24, 1953 : 



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, 1952. 461 pp., 43, pis., 24 figs. (Publ. 4111.) 



The general appendix contained the following papers (Pubis. 4112- 



4128) : 



Radio astronomy, by J. A. Ratcliffe, 



The sun, the moon, and the tides, by Leo Otis Colbert. 



Engineering and pure science, by W. F. G. Svpann. 



Man's synthetic future, by Roger Adams. 



Phosphorus and life, by D. P. Hoplvins. 



The ice age In the North American Arctic, by Richard Foster Flint. 



The 1944 eruption of Usu, in Hokkaido, Japan, by Takeshi Mlnakami, Toshio 

 Ishikavpa, and Kenzo Yagi. 



iSnails and their relations to the soil, by Harley J. Van Cleave. 



The ecology, evolution, and distribution of the vertebrates, by Austin H. Clark. 



Grasshopper Glacier of Montana and its relation to long-distance flights of grass- 

 hoppers, by Ashley B. Gurney. 



Recent advances in the study and techniques of anatomy, by Paul G. Roofe and 

 Samuel W. Lesher. 



Livestock parasitology in the United States, by Benjamin Schwartz. 



Botanizing with the Okinawans, by Egbert H. Walker. 



Bromeliad malaria, by Lyman B. Smith. 



Pharmacology of antibiotics, by Henry Welch. 



An anthropologist looks at Lincoln, by T. D. Stewart. 



The use of music in the treatment of the sick by American Indians, by Frances 

 Densmore. 



Report for 1953. — The Report of the Secretary, which will form 

 part of the Annual Report of the Board of Regents to Congress, was 

 issued January 15, 1954 : 



Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and financial report of 

 the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents for the year ended June 30, 

 1953. 165 pp., 7 pis. (Publ. 4141.) 1954. 



SPECLVL PUBLICATIONS 



The Smithsonian Institution. 32 pp., 15 pis. (Publ. 4145.) 1954. 



PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



The National Museum issued 1 Annual Report of the Director, 13 

 Proceedings papers, 1 Bulletin, and 2 papers in the series Contribu- 

 tions from the United States National Herbarium, as follows: 



