APPENDIX 10 
REPORT ON PUBLICATIONS 
Sm: I have the honor to submit the following report on the pub- 
lications of the Smithsonian Institution and the Government branches 
under its administrative charge during the year ended June 30, 1944. 
The Institution published during the year 4 papers in the Smith- 
sonian Miscellaneous Collections; 7 papers in the War Background 
Studies series; 1 Annual Report of the Board of Regents and pam- 
phlet copies of 20 articles in the Report appendix; 1 Annual Report 
of the Secretary; 2 special publications; reprints of 2 papers in the 
Miscellaneous Collections and 1 special publication, and additional 
copies of 1 volume of tables. 
The United States National Museum issued 1 Annual Report; 14 
Proceedings papers; 4 Bulletins; 1 separate paper in the Bulletin 
series of Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. 
The Bureau of American Ethnology issued 1 Annual Report and 
6 Bulletins. 
The Freer Gallery of Art issued 1 pamphlet. 
Of the publications there were distributed 172,027 copies, which 
included 54 volumes and separates of Smithsonian Contributions to 
Knowledge, 12,966 volumes and separates of Smithsonian Miscel- 
laneous Collections, 21,416 volumes and separates of Smithsonian 
Annual Reports, 75,749 War Background Studies papers, 4,911 Smith- 
sonian special publications, 23 reports on the Harriman Alaska Expe- 
dition, 40,817 volumes and separates of National Museum publications, 
14,903 publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 9 catalogs 
of the National Collection of Fine Arts, 2 pamphlets of the Freer 
Gallery of Art, 23 Annals of the Astrophysical Observatory, and 
1,124 reports of the American Historical Association. 
SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 
Four papers in this series were issued, as follows: 
VOLUME 104 
No. 1. The feeding apparatus of biting and disease-carrying flies: A wartime 
contribution to medical entomology, by R. E. Snodgrass. 51 pp., 18 figs. (Publ. 
3732.) July 19, 1943. 
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