REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. of 
tions of the natural-history features of Alaska were prepared by 
specialists of the party and published in the series above mentioned. 
Volumes 6 and 7 on botany are still in preparation. During the past 
year volume 14 has been issued by the Smithsonian Institution. It 
is a.monograph of the shallow-water starfishes of the North Pacific 
coast, from the Arctic Ocean to California, and is accompanied by 
110 plates of illustrations. 
National Museum publications—The annual report for 1914 of 
the assistant secretary in charge of the National Museum was pub- 
lished during the year, together with 49 papers from the Museum 
Proceedings, and 9 Bulletins, including a number of parts of vol- 
umes of Contributions from the National Herbarium. 
Ethnology publications —The Bureau of American Ethnology 
issued during the year a bulletin on Chippewa Music and one on the 
Ethnozoology of the Tewa Indians. There were in press at the close 
of the year three annual reports and several bulletins, as noted in 
the second appendix of this report. 
Astrophysical Observatory.—V olume 8 of the Annals of the Astro- 
physical Observatory was distributed early in the fiscal year. 
Reporis of historical and patriotic societies —In accordance with 
the national charters of the American Historical Association and 
the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 
annual reports of those organizations were submitted to the Insti- 
tution and communicated to Congress. 
Allotments for printing.—The allotments to the Institution and 
its branches, under the head of “ Public printing and binding,” dur- 
ing the fiscal year, aggregating $76,200, were all utilized, with the 
exception of small balances on work in progress at the close of the 
year. The allotments for the year ending June 30, 1915, are as 
follows: 
For the Smithsonian Institution: For printing and binding the annual 
reports of the Board of Regents, with general appendices____________ $10, 000 
For the annual reports of the National Museum, with general appen- 
dices, and for printing labels and blanks, and for the. Bulletins and 
Proceedings of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not 
exceed 4,000 copies, and binding, in half morocco or material not more 
expensive, scientific books, and pamphlets presented to or acquired 
byathe NationalsMauseunr libranty}isst: ase oet Ph fe ee ets 3 37, 500 
For the annual reports and Bulletins of the Bureau of American Eth- 
nology and for miscellaneous printing and binding for the bureau____ 21, 000 
For miscellaneous printing and binding: 
MitLern AOA XCHAN Sees eels SARA) RCE SENET AEP iS) ee, 200 
International Catalogue of Scientific Literature__________________ 100 
National Zoologicalls arle she) Pics. 5. hee kh ee Se gs 200 
AStrophysicails Observahory = 4222 es ee ee 200 
For the annual report of the American Historical Association_________ 7, 000 
