156 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 19 31 



Ancient Seating Furniture in tlie Collections of the United States National 

 Museum, by Walter Hough. 



Aspects of Aboriginal Decorative Art in America Based on Specimens in the 

 United States National Museum, by Herbert W. Krieger. 



The Acclimatization of the White Race in the Tropics, by Robert de C. Ward. 



The Eighth Wonder: The Holland Vehicular Tunnel, by Carl C. Gray and 

 H. F. Hagen. 



George Perkins Merrill, by Charles Schubert. 



Jesse Walter Fewkes, by John R. Swanton and F. H. H. Roberts, jr. 



FREER GALLERY OF ART PUBLICATIONS 



Yaksas, Part II. By Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. May 19, 1931. 84 pp., 50 

 pis. (Publ. 3059.) 



SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS 



Explorations and Field Work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1930. March 

 25, 1931. 224 pp., 198 figs. (Publ. 3111.) 



Classified List of Smithsonian Publications Available for Distribution, May 

 22, 1931. Compiled by Helen Munroe. May 22, 1931. 30 pp. (Publ. 3119.) 



Brief Guide to the Smithsonian Institution. January 15, 1931. 79 pp. 



PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Through the retirement of Dr. Marcus Benjamin on January 31, 

 1931, the editorial work of the National Museum devolved upon W. P. 

 True until Paul H. Oehser was appointed on April 15, 1931, to fill 

 the vacancy. During the year ending June 30, 1931, the Museum pub- 

 lished 1 annual report, 1 volume of proceedings, 3 complete bulletins, 

 1 part of a bulletin, 1 complete volume, 1 part and 1 index in the 

 series Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, 

 and 40 separates from the proceedings. 



The issues of the bulletin were as follows : 



Bulletin 82. A Monograph of the Existing Crinoids. Volume 1 — The Comatu- 

 lids. Part 3. Superl'amily Comasterida. By Austin Hobart Clark. 



Bulletin 100. Contributions to the Biology of the Philippine Archipelago and 

 Adjacent Regions. 



Volume 11. The Fishes of the Families Pseudochromidae, Lobotidae, Pem- 

 pheridae, Priacanthidae, Lutjanidae, Pomadasyidae, and Teraponidae, Col- 

 lected by the United States Bureau of Fisheries Steamer Albatross, Chiefly in 

 Philippine Seas and Adjacent Waters. By Henry W. Fowler. 



Bulletin 154. A Study of the Teiid Lizards of the Genus Cnemidophorus, with 

 Special Reference to Their Phylogenetic Relationships. By Charles E. Burt. 



Bulletin 155. The Birds of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. By Alexander 

 Wetmore and Bradshaw H. Swales. 



The issues of the contributions from the United States National 

 Herbarium were as follows : 



Volume 24. Title Page, Preface, Contents, List of Illustrations, and Index to 

 Volume 24, Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. 



Volume 24. Plant Studies — Chiefly Tropical American. 



Volume 26, part 6. Asiatic Pteridophyta collected by Joseph F. Rock 1920-1924. 

 By Carl Christensen. 



