104. ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1944 
No. 2. Cross sections of New World prehistory: A brief report on the work 
of the Institute of Andean Research, 1941-1942, by William Duncan Strong. 46 
pp., 33 pls., 1 fig. (Publ. 3739.) December 21, 1943. 
No. 8. A 27-day period in Washington precipitation, by C. G. Abbot. 4 pp., 1 
fig. (Publ. 3765.) February 3, 1944. 
No. 4. The influence of light and of carbon dioxide on the respiration of 
etiolated barley seedlings, by Robert L. Weintraub and Earl 8. Johnston. 16 pp., 
2 pls., 8 figs. (Publ. 3769.) June 28, 1944. 
The following Miscellaneous Collections papers were reprinted: 
VOLUME 86 
Smithsonian Meteorological Tables. Fifth Revised Edition. First Reprint 
(additional copies printed without change). Ixxxvi+282 pp. (Publ. 3116.) 
VOLUME 95 
No. 5. Molluscan intermediate hosts of the Asiatic blood fluke, Schistosoma 
japonicum, and species confused with them, by Paul Bartsch. 60 pp., 8 pls. 
(With description of 2 new species, 5 pp., 2 figs.) (Publ. 3384.) 
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. 
37382.) 
WAR BACKGROUND STUDIES 
In this new series of Smithsonian publications, there were issued 
during the year the following 7 papers: 
No. 18. Alaska: America’s continental frontier outpost, by Ernest P. Walker. 
21 pp., 21 pls., 2 figs. (Publ. 3733.) July 8, 1943. 
No. 14. Islands and peoples of the Indies, by Raymond Kennedy. 66 pp., 21 
pls., 7 figs. (Publ. 3734.) August 5, 1948. 
No. 15. Iceland and Greenland, by Austin H. Clark. 103 pp., 21 pls., 2 figs. 
(Publ. 3735.) August 19, 1948. 
No. 16. Island peoples of the western Pacific: Micronesia and Melanesia, by 
Herbert W. Krieger. 104 pp., 21 pls., 2 figs. (Publ. 3737.) September 15, 1943. 
No. 17. Burma—Gateway to China, by H. G. Deignan. 21 pp., 16 pls., 1 fig. 
(Publ. 3738.) October 29, 1943. 
No. 18. Peoples of India, by William H. Gilbert. 86 pp., 21 pls., 3 figs. (Publ. 
38767.) April 29, 1944. 
No. 19. The peoples of French Indochina, by Olov R. T. Janse. 28 pp., 25 pls., 
1 fig. (Publ. 3768.) June 12, 1944. 
War Background Studies No. 20, “China,” by Archibald C. Wenley 
and John A. Pope, was in press at the close of the fiscal year. 
SMITHSONIAN ANNUAL REPORTS 
Report for 1942.—The complete volume of the Annual Report of the 
Board of Regents for 1942 was received from the Public Printer on 
September 24, 1943. 
