86 KEPOET OF THE ACTING SECRETAKY. 



The general appendix of the report for 1905 was transmitted to the Public 

 Printer toward the close of the fiscal year. The Secretary's report on the 

 operations of the Institution, which forms part of the Regents' report to Con- 

 gress, was printed December 1, 1905, in a pamphlet of 96 pages : 



1654. Report of S. P. Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, for 

 the year ending June 30, 1905. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1905. 

 8 vo. Pages 1-96 with plates i-vii. 



The general appendix of the 1905 volume will contain the following papers: 



New Measurements of the Distance of the Sun, by A. R. Hinks. 



Photographing Lightning with a Moving Camera, by Alex Larsen. 



The Tantalum Lamp, by W. Von Bolton and O. Fuerlein. 



Some Refinements of Mechanical Science, by Ambrose Swasey. 



Progress in Radiography, by L. Gastine. 



History of Photography, by Robert Hunt. 



The Genesis of the Diamond, by Gardiner F. Williams. 



The Cullinan Diamond, by F. H. Hatch and G. S. Corstorphine. 



Gold in Science and in Industry, by G. T. Beilby. 



Submarine Navigation, by Sir William H. AVhite. 



Liberia, by Sir Harry Johnston. 



The Geographical Results of the Tibet Mission, by Sir Frank Tounghusband. 



The Development of Rhodesia and its Railway System in Relation to Oceanic 



Highways, by J. T. P. Heatley. 

 The Ethics of Japan, by Baron Kencho Suyematsu. 

 Plague in India, by Charles Creighton. 

 The Fight against Yellow Fever, by A. Dastre. 

 Luminosity of Plants, by Prof. Hans Molisch. 

 Notes on the Victoria Lyre-Bird, by A. E. Kitson. 



The Influence of Physical Conditions in the Genesis of Species, by Joel A. Allen. 

 Parental Care among Fresh-water Fishes, by Theodore Gill. 

 On the Relations between the United States and Germany, especially in the 



Field of Science, by Herr Wilhelm Waldeyer. 

 Walter Reed, by Walter D. McCaw. 

 Rudolph Albert von Kolliker, by William Stirling. 



IV. Publications of United States National Museum. 



The publications of the National Museum are: (a) The Annual Report, form- 

 ing a separate volume of the Report of the Smithsonian Institution; (b) The 

 Proceedings of the United States National Museum; (c) The Bulletin of the 

 United States National Museum. 



There were issued during the year the Annual Report of the Museum for 

 1904; volumes 28, 29, and 30 of the Proceedings; Bulletins 54 and 55, the 

 former on the Isopod Crustaceans of North America, the latter on the Ocean- 

 ography of the Pacific Ocean; and Part 1 of Volume X of Contributions from 

 the National Herbarium, the latter work being included in the Bulletin series. 



The full bibliography of the above publications will be given in the Annual 

 Report on the National Museum. 



V. Publications of the Bureau of American EtliiioJogy. 



The twenty-third annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology was 

 published in December, 1905, and progress was made on the twenty-fourth 

 report. The twenty-fifth report was transmitted to the printer during the year, 



