APPENDIX 12 



Report on Publications 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the following, report on the publi- 

 cations of the Smithsonian Institution and its branches for the year 

 ended June 30, 1952: 



The Institution published during the year 18 papers in the Smith- 

 sonian Miscellaneous Collections, 1 Annual Report of the Board of 

 Regents and pamphlet copies of 19 articles in the Report appendix, 

 1 Annual Report of the Secretary, and 2 special publications. 



The United States National Museum issued 1 Annual Report, 24 

 Proceedings papers, 1 Bulletin, and 1 paper in the series Contributions 

 from the United States National Herbarium. 



The Bureau of American Ethnology issued 1 Annual Report, 4 

 Bulletins, and 1 paper in the series Publications of the Institute of 

 Social Anthropology. 



The National Collection of Fine Arts issued 1 publication ; and the 

 Freer Gallery of Art published title page and table of contents of 

 1 volume in the Occasional Papers series. 



The final number of Ars Islamica (comprising volumes XV-XVI) 

 was issued in August 1951. This journal, published by the University 

 of Michigan under the editorship of Dr. Richard Ettinghausen, of the 

 Freer Gallery of Art, was seen through the press by the editorial staff 

 of the Smithsonian Institution. Future numbers, to be known as 

 Ars Orientalis, will be published jointly under the imprint of the 

 University of Michigan and the Smithsonian Institution. 



At the end of the year galley proof of the ninth revised edition of the 

 Physical tables was beginning to come in. 



Of the publications there were distributed 144,166 copies, which 

 included 32 volumes and separates of Smithsonian Contributions to 

 Knowledge, 34,691 volumes and separates of Smithsonian Miscellane- 

 ous Collections, 25,863 volumes and separates of Smithsonian Annual 

 Reports, 2,350 War Background Studies, 2,238 Smithsonian special 

 publications, 5 reports and 262 sets of pictures of the Harriman Alaska 

 Expedition, 52,653 volumes and separates of National Museum publi- 

 cations, 17,964 publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 3,541 publications of the Institute of Social Anthropology, 1,140 cata- 

 logs of the National Collection of Fine Arts, 596 volumes and pam- 

 phlets of the Freer Gallery of Art, 13 Annals of the Astrophysical 



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