Appkndix VII. 



RF.PORT OF TIIK KDITOR. 



Sir: I have the honor to wubuiit the followinj;; report on the pubUcations of the 

 Smithsonian Institution and its bureaus during the year ending June 30, 1903: 



I. CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE. 



To the series of Contributions four memoirs have been added during the last year. 



1413. Hodgkius fund. On the Absorption and Emission of Air and its Ingre- 

 dients of Wave Lengths from 250 //// to 100 //«. By Victor Schumann. City of 

 Washington: Pubhshed by the Smithsonian Institution, 1903. Quarto. Pages iv, 

 30, 4 plates. Part of Vol. XXIX. 



1414. Tiie Whalebone Whales of the Western North Atlantic Compared with those 

 Occurring in European Waters with Some Observations on the Spec'.es of the North 

 Pacific. By Frederick W. True. City of Washington: Pul)lished by the Smith- 

 sonian In.«titution, 1904. Quarto. Pages vii, 332, 50 plates, 97 text tigures. Vol. 

 XXXIII, Contributions to Knowledge. [In press.] 



1438. A Comparison of Features of the Earth and the Moon. By N. S. Shaler. City 

 of Washington: Published by the Smithsonian Institution, 1903. Quarto. Pages v, 

 79 (explanation of plates, pp. 81-130), 25 plates. Part of Vol. XXXIV. 



1459. On the Construction of a Silvered Glass Telescope of Fifteen and a half Inches 

 in Aperture, and its U.se in Celestial Photography, by Henry Draper; and The Modern 

 Reflecting Telescope and the Making and Testing of Optical Mirrors, by George W. 

 Ritchey. City of Washington: Published by the Smithsoiuau Institution, 1904. 

 Quarto. Pages 55 f 51, 13 plates. [In press.] Part of Vol. XXXIV. 



II. SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS. 



To the Miscellaneous (\illections 30 numbers have been added, most of them being 

 articles published in the Quarterly Issue recently established to meet a special need 

 for early publication of scientific papers. 



1374. Index to the Literature of Thorium, 1817-1902. By Cavalier H. Joiitt. 

 City of Washington: Published by the Smithsonian Institution. Octavo. Pages 

 154. 



1417. Phylogeny of Fusus and its Allies. By Aiiuuleus W. Grabau. Octavo. 

 Pages III, 157 (158-192 explanation of plates), 18 plates, 21 text figures. 



1419. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. XLV. ((Quarterly Issue, Vol. I, 

 parts 1-2. July-September, 1903.) City of Washington: Published by the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, 1904. Octavo. Pages 223, 5G plates, 28 text figures. 



1420. Seventy New Malayan Mammals. By (ierrit S. ]\Iiller, jr. Reprinted from 

 Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections (Ciuarterly Issue), Vol. XLV. Pages 1-73, 

 plates i-xi.x, 1 text figure. 



1421. Recent Studies of the Solar Constant of Radiation. By C. G. Abbot. 

 Reprinted from Smithsonian Miscellaneous (Collections (Quarterly Issue), Vol. XLV. 

 Pages 74-83, plates xx-xxii. 



1422. The newCoelostat and Horizontal Telescope of the Astrophysical C)l)servatory 

 . of the Smithsonian Institution. By C. G. Abbot. Reprinted from the Smithsonian 



Miscellaneous Collections (Quarterly Issue), Vol. XLV. Pages 84-90, plate xxiii. 



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