118 ANNUAL EEPOET SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1915. 



were issued by the National Museum ; and 2 volumes and pamphlets 

 (115 pages and 11 plates) by the Bureau of American Ethnology. 

 In addition there are now in page proof 5 annual reports (about 

 2,000 pages) and 3 pamphlets and 1 special publication (about 1,000 

 pages) ; these will probably be ready for distribution within a few 

 months. The total number of copies of all publications distributed 

 during the year was about 169,000. There were also transmitted 

 through the institution to Congress two annual reports of the Amer- 

 ican Historical Association and the Annual Eeport of the Daughters 

 of the American Revolution. 



Among the Museum publications is the sixth volume of the De- 

 scriptive Catalogue of the Birds of North and Middle America, a 

 work in which there has thus far been technically described more 

 than 2,500 species and subspecies of American birds. 



A second edition of the Hodgkins fund prize essay bj^^ Dr. Hins- 

 dale on atmospheric air in relation to tuberculosis was published to 

 meet the general demand for this work. 



The institution also published through the generosity of Mrs. E. H. 

 Harriman two elaborate volumes by Prof. Verrill, on the Starfishes 

 of the Pacific Coast. 



On motion the report was accepted. 



THE secretary's STATEMENT. 



The secretary made personal statements as follows : 

 Death of the assistant secretary^ Dr. F. W. True. — Dr. True died 

 on the 25th of June, 1914, in the fifty-sixth year of his age. He 

 entered the service of the Institution as the j^oungest member of the 

 scientific corps brought together by Profs, George Brown Goode and 

 Spencer F. Baird during the primitive stages of the National 

 Museum, his first work being in connection with investigations by 

 the U. S. Fish Commission. Later he had been placed in charge of 

 the mammal collections in the Museum, and upon its reorganization 

 into three principal departments became head curator of biology. 

 For a number of years he had served as executive curator of the 

 Museum and at times had been designated acting secretary of the 

 Institution. June 1, 1911, he had been appointed an assistant secre- 

 tary, his special duties being in connection with the library and 

 International Exchanges. 



The secretary added a tribute to Dr. True's ability and loyalty. 



NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Statue of Lafayette. — The Museum was honored during the past 

 summer by receiving as a gift from the sculptor, Mr. Paul Wayland 

 Bartlett, a copy of his equestrian statue of the Marquis de Lafayette 



