KEPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 85 



X. SMITHSONIAN COMMITTEE ON PRINTING. 



The editor has served as secretary of the Smithsouiau advisory committee 

 on printing and publication. To this committee have been referred the manu- 

 scripts proposed for publication by the various branches of the Institution, and 

 also those offered for printing in the quarterly issue of the Smithsonian Miscel- 

 laneous Collections. The committee has likewise passed ujjon blank forms for 

 current use in the Institution and its branches. The committee considered and 

 reported to the Secretary on various questions relating in general to printing 

 and publication. Twenty-six meetings were held during the year and 137 

 palmers were reported on. 



The committee formulated the following rules for abbreviation of titles: 



BULES FOR THE ABBREVIATION OF TITLES OF SCIENTIFIC PERIODICALS IN PUBLICA- 

 TIONS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION AND ITS BRANCHES. 



1. In abbreviating words in titles stop before the second vowel, unless the re- 

 sulting abbreviation would contain but one consonant, in which case stop before 

 the third vowel. 



Examples. 



Abhandlung Abh. 



Academy Acad. 



Bericht Ber. 



Explanations and exceptions. 



A. The following words have irregular abbreviations to avoid confusion with 

 other words having the same beginning, but different termination, or for other 

 reasons : 



Analytical Analyt. 



Architecture (or -al) Archit. 



Astrophysics (or -ical) Astrophys. 



Bibliography (or -ical) Bibliogr. 



College. (Not abbreviated.) 



Columbian Columb. 



Ethnography (or -ical) Ethnogr. 



Experimental Exper. 



Herausgegeben Hrsg. 



Industrial Indust. 



Manufactures (or -ing) Mfr. 



Mining Mg. 



Monthly Mo. 



Monograph i Monogr. 



Philosophy (or -ical) — . Philos. 



Physiology (or -ical) Physiol. 



Public (or publication )^ Pub. 



Repertorium Report. 



Repository Repos. 



Science (or scientific) Sci. 



Sociology Sociol. 



Statistics (or -ical) Statist. 



Telephone (or -ic) Teleph. 



B. The following abbreviations in common use, also the oixlinary post-office 

 abbreviations for States of the United States, are allowable: R. R. (rail- 

 road) ; C. R. (comptes rendus) ; k. k. (kaiseiiich und koniglich) ; U. S. 



