Appendix VII. 



REPORT ON THE PUBLICATIONS. 



Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report on the publications 

 of the Smithsonian Institution and its bureaus during the year ending June 

 30, 190G: 



I. Smithsonian Contributions to Knoiclcdge. 



In the series of Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge the following 

 memoir, which was In press at the close of the last fiscal year, has been pub- 

 lished : 



1651. A Continuous Record of Atmospheric Nucleation. By Carl Barus. 

 City of Washington; published by the Smithsonian Institution. 1905. (Hodg- 

 kins Fund. Part of Vol. XXIV, Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge.) 

 Quarto. Pages xvi, 226. 



II. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 



To the series of Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections the following num- 

 bers have been added : 



1585. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections (Part of Vol. XLVIIl). Quar- 

 terly Issue, Vol. Ill, part 2. City of Washington; published by the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, 1905. 8vo. Pages 117-240, plates xxxiv-lviii. 



1587. The History of the Whale Shark (Rhinodon typicus Smith). By 

 Barton A. Bean. (Quarterly issue.) 8vo. Pages 139-148, plates xxxiv-xxxvi. 



1588. The Avian Genus Bleder Bonaparte and Some of its Allies. By 

 Harry C. Oberholser. (Quarterly issue.) 8vo. Pages 149-172. 



1589. Scaphoceros tyrelli, an Extinct Ruminant from the Klondike Gravels. 

 By Wilfred H. Osgood. (Quarterly issue.) 8vo. Pages 173-185. plates 



XXXVII-XLII. 



1590. A New Genus and Several New Species of Land Shells Collected In 

 Central Mexico by Dr. Edward Palmer. By William Healey Dall. (Quarterly 

 Issue.) 8vo. Pages 187-194, plates xliii-xliv. 



1591. The Family of Cyprinids and the Carp as its Type. By Theodore Gill. 

 (Quarterly issue.) 8vo. Pages 195-217, plates xlv-lviii. 



1592. The International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. By Cyrus Adler. 

 (Quarterly issue.) 8vo. Pages 219-221. 



1593. Instances of Hermaphroditism in Crayfishes. By William Perry Hay. 

 (Quarterly Issue.) 8vo. Pages 222-228. 



1594. Notes to Quarterly Issue, Vol. Ill, part 2, pages 229-240. 



III. Smithsonian Annual Report. 



The Annual Report for 1904 was mostly in type on June 30, 1905, but the 

 edition was not printed and distributed until Octobei*. The contents of the 

 volume were enumerated In the last report of the editor. 



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