APPENDIX 11 

 KEPOKT ON PUBLICATIONS 



Sik: I have the honor to submit the following report on the 

 publications of the Smithsonian Institution and the Government 

 bureaus under its administrative charge during the year ending 

 June 30, 1931 : 



A consolidation of all the editorial work of the Institution and 

 its branches, put in effect by the secretary on March 1, 1931, brought 

 all of the 13 series of publications issued by the Smithsonian under 

 the general direction of the editor. This step was taken in the 

 interests of greater unity of editorial policy, more efficiency, and 

 less duplication in the keeping of the many records, financial and 

 otherwise, necessary in an editorial office, and, most important of all, 

 greater accuracy and more prompt appearance of Smithsonian 

 publications. 



On January 31, 1931, Dr. Marcus Benjamin, editor of the National 

 Museum, retired after a service of 35 years. He was succeeded by 

 Paul H. Oehser, formerly on the editorial staff of the Bureau of 

 Biological Survey. Mr. Oehser and Mr. Stanley Searles, editor of 

 the Bureau of American Ethnology, will continue in charge of the 

 editorial work of their respective bureaus, but by centralizing the 

 general direction of the work in the office of the editor of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, the advantage is gained of establishing a definite 

 point of contact between heads of bureaus, authors, and the Govern- 

 ment Printing Office. Furthermore, the same general style can now 

 be adopted for all the series published under the Institution, so that 

 authors, many of whom publish in several of the series, will know 

 beforehand what style is expected. To aid toward this end, it is 

 proposed to issue a condensed style sheet based on the Style Manual 

 of the Government Printing Office, covering those matters that occur 

 constantly in every manuscript and concerning which authors and 

 typists are often in doubt. 



PUBLICATIONS ISSUED DURING THE TEAR 



The Institution proper published during the year 16 papers in the 



series of Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 1 annual report and 



pamphlet copies of the 24 articles contained in the report appendix, 



and 3 special publications. The United States National Museum 



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