Appendix 8. 

 KEPORT ON THE PUBLICATIONS. 



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

 lications of the Smithsonian Institution and its branches during 

 the year ending June 30, 1917: 



The Institution proper published during the year 1 memoir in 

 the series of Contributions to Knowledge, 19 papers in the series of 

 Miscellaneous Collections, and 6 special publications. The Bureau 

 of American Ethnology published 1 annual report, 2 bulletins, and 

 a list of publications of the bureau. The United States National 

 Museum issued 1 volume of the Proceedings, 73 papers forming parts 

 of this and other volumes, and 6 Bulletins. 



The total number of copies of publications distributed by the 

 Institution and its branches was 158,797, which includes 2,673 vol- 

 umes and separates of the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, 

 53,615 volumes and separate pamphlets of Smithsonian Miscellaneous 

 Collections, 21,865 volumes and separate pamphlets of Smithsonian 

 Annual Reports, 64,365 volumes and separates of National Museum 

 publications, 11,984 publications of the Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology, 4,182 special publications, 23 volumes of the Annals of the 

 Astrophysical Observatory, 29 reports of the Harriman Alaska Ex- 

 pedition, and 53 reports of the American Historical Association. 



SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE. 



QUARTO. 

 VOLUME 35. 



No. 3. A contribution to the comparative histology of the femur. By J. S. Foote, 

 February 6, 1917. ix+242 pp., 38 pis. (Publ. 2382.) 



Title-page and table of contents. April 4, 1917. (Publ. 1740.) 



SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS. 



OCTAVO. 



Of the Miscellaneous Collections, volume 63, 1 paper was pub- 

 lished; of volume 64, 1 paper; of volume 66, 11 papers; of volume 67, 

 2 papers; of volume 68, 4 papers ; in all, 19 papers, as follows : 

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