APPENDIX 8. 

 EEPORT ON THE PUBLICATIONS. 



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

 cations of the Smithsonian Institution and its branches during the 

 year ending June 30, 1918 : 



The Institution proper published during the year 13 papers in the 

 series of Miscellaneous Collections, 1 annual report, pamphlet copies 

 of 27 papers from the general appendices of these reports, and 5 

 special publications. The Bureau of American Ethnology published 

 1 bulletin and 1 advance separate belonging to a report now in press. 

 The United States National Museum issued 1 annual report, 1 volume 

 of the proceedings, 39 separate papers forming parts of these and 

 other volumes, and 5 bulletins. 



The total number of copies of publications distributed by the In- 

 stitution and its branches was 134,284, which includes 1,591 volumes 

 and separate memoirs of Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, 

 26,412 volumes and separate pamphlets of Smithsonian Miscellaneous 

 Collections, 19,815 volumes and separate pamphlets of Smithsonian 

 Annual Reports, 75,300 volumes and separates of National Museum 

 publications, 7,344 publications of the Bureau of American Ethnol- 

 ogy, 2,929 special publications, 14 volumes of the Annals of the 

 Astrophysical Observatory, 44 reports of the Harriman Alaska Expe- 

 dition, and 676 reports of the American Historical Association. 



SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS. 



Of the Miscellaneous Collections, volume 66, the title-page and 

 table of contents was published; volume 67, 1 paper; volume 68, 7 

 papers; volume 69, 3 papers; in all, 11 papers, as follows: 



VOLUME 66. 



Title-page and table of content's. 5 pp. ( Publ. 2478. ) 



VOLUME 67. 



No. 3. Cambrian Geology and Paleontology. IV, No. 3. Fauna of the Mount 

 Whyte formation. By Charles D. Walcott May 9, 1917. 59 pp. 

 (Publ. 2480.) 



VOLUME 68. 



No. 6. Meliaceae Centrali-Americanae et Panamenses. C. de Candolle. July 23, 



1917. 8 pp. (Publ. 2479.) 

 No. 7. Descriptions of two new birds from Haiti. Charles W. Richmond. July 



12, 1917. 3 pp. (Publ. 2481.) 



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