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No. 17. The Types of Lamarck's Genera of Shells as Selected by J. G. Children 

 in 1823. By A. S. Kennard, A. L. S., A. E. Salisbury, and B. B. Woodward, 

 F. L. S. July 11, 1931. 40 pp. (Publ. 3112.) 



No. IS. Tropisms and Sense Organs of Coleoptera. By N, E, Mclndoo. 

 April 18, 1931. 70 pp., 2 pis., 19 text figs. (Publ. 3113.) 



VOLUME 83 



(Whole volume.) The Skeletal Remains of Early Man. By Ale§ Hrdli^ka. 

 July 24, 1930. 379 pp., 93 pis., 39 text figs. (Publ. 3033.) 

 Title-page and table of contents. 8 pp. (Publ. 3075.) 



VOLUME 84 



(Whole volume.) A History of Applied Entomology (Somewhat Anecdotal). 

 By L. O. Howard. November 29, 1930. 564 pp., 51 pis. (Publ. 3065.) 

 • Title-page and table of contents. 8 pp. (Publ. 3118.) 



VOLUME 85 



No. 1. Weather Dominated by Solar Changes. By C. G. Abbot. February 5, 

 1931. 18 pp., 4 text figs. (Publ. 3114.) 



No. 2. The Avifauna of the Pleistocene in Florida. By Alexander Wetmore. 

 April 13, 1931. 41 pp., 16 figs., 6 pis. (Publ. 3115.) 



No. 3. Addenda to Descriptions of Burgess Shale Fossils. By Charles D. 

 Walcott. 46 pp., 23 pis., 11 text figs. (Publ. 3117.) 



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Report for 1929. — The complete volume of the Annual Report of 

 the Board of Regents for 1929 was received from the Public Printer 

 in November, 1930. 



Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution showing 

 the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year 

 ending June 30, 1929. xiii+622 pp., 91 pis., 56 text figs. (Publ. 3034.) 



The appendix contained the following papers : 



The I'hysics of the Universe, by Sir James Jeans. 



Counting the Stars and Some Conclusions, by Frederick H. Seares. 



The Lingering Dryad, by Paul R. Heyl. 



What is Light? by Arthur H. Compton. 



Artificial Cold, by Gordon B. Wilkes. 



Photosynthesis, by E. C. C. Baly. 



Newly Discovered Chemical Elements, by N. M. Bligh. 



Synthetic Perfumes, by H. Stanley Redgrove. 



X-Raying the Earth, by Reginald A. Dalj\ 



Extinction and Extermination, by I. P. Tolmachoff. 



The Gulf Stream and its Problems, by H. A. Marmer. 



The Mystery of Life, by F. G. Donnan. 



The Transition from Live to Dead ; the Nature of Filtrable Viruses, by A. E. 

 Boycott. 



Heritable Variations, their Production by X rays, and their Relation to 

 Evolution, by H. J. Muller. 



Social Parasitism in Birds, by Herbert Friedmann. 



How Insects Fly, by R. E. Snodgrass. 



Climate and Migrations, by J. C. Curry. 



