82 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1908. 



There were about to go to press in the Quarterly Issue at the close of the 

 fiscal year : Indians of Peru, by Charles C. Eberhardt ; and the Nettelroth Col- 

 lection of Invertebrate Fossils, by R. S. Bassler. 



In the regular series of Sruithsonian Miscellaneous Collections the folknving 

 have been published : 



1717. Report on the Crustacea (Brachyura and Anonmra) Collected by the 

 North Pacific Exploring Expedition, 1853-185(3. By William Stimpsou. Octavo. 

 Pages 240, with Plates I-XXVI. Part of Volume XLIX. 



This work, which was in press at the close of the fiscal year 1907, was edited 

 by Miss Mary J. Rathbuu. Its scope and the causes for delay in its publication 

 were discussed in the report for last year. 



1720. Samuel Pierpont Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 1SS7-190G. Memorial meeting December 3, 1906. Addresses by Doctor White, 

 Professor Pickering, and Mr. Chanute. Octavo. Pages 49. Part of Volume 

 XLIX. 



1741. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Volume XLIX (containing Nos. 

 1584, 1652, 1717, 1720, and 1721). (Cover, title-page, advertisement, and table 

 of contents.) Octavo. Pages v. 



1791. The Development of the American Alligator. By Albert M. Reese. 

 Octavo. Pages 66, with Plates I-XXIII. Part of Volume LI. 



1803. The Taxonomy of the Muscoideau Flies, including Descriptions of New 

 Genera and Species. By Charles H. T. Townsend. Octavo. Pages 138. Part 

 of Volume LI. 



1804. Cambrian Geology and Paleontology. No. 1, Nomenclature of S6me 

 Cambrian Cordillerau Formations. By Charles D. Walcott. Octavo. Pages 

 1-12. Part of Volume LIII. 



1805. Cambrian Geology and Paleontology. No. 2, Cambrian Trilobites. By 

 Charles D. Walcott. Octavo. Pages 13-52, with plates 1-6. Part of Volume 

 LIII. 



ISO". Smithsonian Exploration in Alaska in 1907 in Search of Pleistocene 

 Fossil Vertebrates. By Charles W. Gilmore. Octavo. Pages 38, with Plates 

 I-XIII. Part of Volume LI. • 



At the close of the fiscal year there were in press in the regular series of 

 Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections the following papers, which continue the 

 studies of Cambrian Geology and Paleontology by Charles D. Walcott: No. 3, 

 Cambrian Brachiopoda : Descriptions of New Genera and Species ; No. 4, Classi- 

 fication and Terminology of the Cambrian Brachiopoda ; and No. 5, Cambrian 

 Sections of the Cordillerau Area. These papers will form parts of Volume 

 LIII of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collection, which it is proposed to 

 devote entirely to these studies. 



There was also in press the Smithsonian Mathematical Tables: Hyperbolic 

 Functions, by George F. Becker and C. E. Van Orstrand. 



III. SMITHSONIAN ANNUAL REPORTS. 



The annual report for 1906 was in type at the close of the last fiscal year, but 

 final printing, binding, and delivery were not completed until October. 



The secretary's report for 1907, forming a part of the annual report of the 

 Board of Regents to Congress, was printed as usual in pamphlet form in No- 

 vember, 1907, for the use of the board, and a larger edition was afterwards 

 printed for public distribution, as follows: 



1737. Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 

 ending June 30, 1907. Octavo. Pages 95. 



The full report for 1907 was in type at the close of the fiscal year, though 

 only partly paged. The genei*al appendix contains the following papers : 



