86 ANNUAL EEPORT- SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1908. 



(United States) ; N. S. W. (New South Wales) ; Lond. (London) ; Par. 

 Paris) ; Ber. (Berlin) ; St. Petersb. (St. Petersburg) ; Pliila. (Philadelphia), etc. 

 C Compound German, Norwegian, and Swedish words may be abbreviated 

 (a) by adding to the first component the consonant or consonants immediately 

 following, or (&) by abbreviating each component according to rule 1 and 

 connecting them by hyphens. 



Ejoamplcs. 



Monatsbericht Monatsb. or Mon.-Ber. 



Naturvidenskabeligt Naturv. or Nat.-Vid. 



Landhush&llning Landh. or Land-Hush. 



D. Numerals occurring in titles should be treated thus : 



Fiftieth 50th. 



Fifteenth 15th. 



Deuxieme 2me. 



Vierte 4te, etc. 



2. All articles, prepositions, and conjunctions are to be omitted, except " and " 

 and " for," which may be retained when necessary for clearness. 



Examples. 



Bollettino del Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata=BolI. Mus. Zool. ed 



Anat. Comp. 

 Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia =Proc. Acad. 



Nat. Sci. Phila. 

 Memoires pour servir a THistoire Physique et Naturelle de la Suisse=Mem. 



Hist. Phys. et Nat. Suisse. 



3. In abbreviated titles, the words should follow strictly the order of the 

 full titles. 



Examples. 



Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington=Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- 

 ington ; not Washington Biol. Soc. Proc. 



Anuales de la Societe Entomologique de Paris=Ann. Soc. Eut. Paris; not Paris 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. 



4. (a) Words of one syllable, (&) titles consisting of a single word, (e) names 

 of towns (except as indicated under rule 5), (d) names of persons (when un- 

 modified), and (e) names of geological formations, are not to be abbreviated. 



5. Whenever necessary for clearness any of the foregoing rules may be disre- 

 garded, but in such cases words should not be abbreviated. 



XI. I*BESS ABSTRACTS OF PUBLICATIONS. 



Continuing the policy established in March, 1907, an editorial assistant has 

 been engaged in preparing abstracts of such publications of the Institution 

 and its branches as could be put in popular language for the use of newspapers 

 throughout the country. There have also been sent out a number of brief 

 accounts of current investigations and longer descriptions of the general work 

 of the Institution, including that of the International Catalogue, the Inter- 

 national Exchanges, the Astrophysical Observatory and other branches. 



Respectfully submitted. 



A. Howard Clark, Editor^ 



Dr. Charles D. Walcott, 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



