SECRETARY’S REPORT 225 
DISTRIBUTION 
There were distributed 580,018 copies of publications and miscella- 
neous items. Publications: 34 Contributions to Knowledge, 23,886 
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 8,725 Annual Report volumes 
and 22, 528 pamphlet copies of Report separates, 575 War Background 
Studies, 49,684 special publications, 93 reports of the Harriman 
Alaska Expedition, 52,700 publications of the National Museum, 
27,721 publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 28,170 
publications of the National Collection of Fine Arts, 583 publications 
of the Freer Gallery of Art, 14,951 publications of the Astrophysical 
Observatory, 1,581 reports of the American Historical Association, 
and 1,775 publications not issued by the Smithsonian Institution. 
Miscellaneous items: 4 sets of North American Wild Flowers and 34 
Wild Flower prints, 57 Pitcher Plant volumes, 44,230 guide books, 
19,293 picture pamphlets, 211,260 postcards and postcard folders, 
19,414 color slides, 49,660 information leaflets, and 15 New Museum 
of History and Technology pamphlets. There were also distributed 
366 statuettes, 2,670 Viewmaster reels, and 5 filmstrips and 4 filmstrip 
records.! 
SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 
In this series, under the immediate editorship of Ruth B. Mac- 
Manus, there were issued one paper in volume 119, two papers in 
volume 135, two papers in volume 136, whole volume 137, four papers 
in volume 138, and one paper in volume 189, as follows: 
Volume 119 
No. 3. Mississippian fauna in northwestern Sonora, by William H. Easton, John 
H. Sanders, J. Brookes Knight, and Arthur K. Miller. 87 pp., 9 pls., 4 figs. 
(Publ. 4813.) Aug. 8, 1958. ($1.35.) 
Volume 135 
No. 1. The customs and religion of the Ch’iang, by David Crockett Graham. 
114 pp., 16 pls., 6 figs. (Publ. 4800.) Dec. 2, 1958. ($2.) 
No. 9. New American Paleozoic echinoids, by Porter M. Kier. 26 pp., 8 pls., 
22 figs. (Publ. 4887.) Aug. 4,1958. (75 cents.) 
Volume 136 
No. 1. A review of the middle and upper Hocene primates of North America, by 
©. Lewis Gazin. 112 pp., 14 pls. (Publ. 4340.) July 7, 1958. ($1.75.) 
No. 2. The journals of Daniel Noble Johnson (1822-1863), United States Navy, 
edited by Mendel L. Peterson. 268 pp., 16 pls. (Publ. 4375.) Apr. 2, 1959. 
($4.) 
1 Additional copies of the Institution’s filmstrip and record, “Let’s Visit the Smithsonian,” 
were distributed through the Society for Visual Hducation, Chicago, Ml. 
