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BULLETINS 
Bulletin 168. The Native Brotherhoods: Modern intertribal organizations on 
the Northwest coast, by Philip Drucker. iv+194 pp. October 1958. 
Bulletin 169. River Basin Surveys Papers Nos. 9-14. ix+392 pp., 73 pls., 13 
figs., 9 maps. December 1958. 
No. 9. Archeological investigations in the Heart Butte Reservoir area, 
North Dakota, by Paul L. Cooper. 
No. 10. Archeological investigations at the Tuttle Creek Dam, Kansas, by 
Robert B. Cumming, Jr. 
No. 11. The Spain site (391.M301), a winter village in Fort Randall Reser- 
voir, South Dakota, by Carlyle 8. Smith and Roger T. Grange, Jr. 
No. 12. The Wilbanks site (9CK—5), Georgia, by William H. Sears. 
No. 18. Historic sites in and around the Jim Woodruff Reservoir area, 
Florida—Georgia, by Mark F.. Boyd. 
No. 14. Six sites near the Chattahoochee River in the Jim Woodruff Reser- 
voir area, Florida, by Ripley P. Bullen. 
Bulletin 170. Excavations at La Venta, Tabasco, 1955, by Philip Drucker, Rob- 
ert F. Heizer, and Robert J. Squier. With appendixes by Jonas EH. Gullberg, 
Garniss H. Curtis, and A. Starker Leopold. viii+312 pp., 63 pls., 82 figs. 
March 1959. 
Bulletin 171. The North Alaskan Hskimo: A study in ecology and society, by 
Robert F. Spencer. vi-+490 pp., 9 pls., 2 figs.,4 maps. May 1959. 
PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY 
The editorial work of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory 
continued under the immediate direction of Ernest E. Biebighauser. 
The year’s publications are as follows: 
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ASTROPHYSICS 
Volume 2 
No. 11. The statistics of meteors in the earth’s atmosphere, by Gerald S. 
Hawkins and Richard B. Southworth. Pp. 349-364, 5 figs. Aug. 5, 1958. 
No. 12. Granulation and oscillations of the solar atmosphere, by Charles 
Whitney. Pp. 365-376, 2 figs. July 29, 1958. 
No. 13. Optical properties of Saturn’s rings: I. Transmission, by Allan F. Cook, 
II, and Fred A. Franklin. Pp. 377-383, 3 figs. Nov. 14, 1958. 
Volume $ 
No. 1. The regression of the node of the quadrantids, by Gerald S. Hawkins and 
Richard B. Southworth. Pp. 1-5, 2 figs. Oct. 1, 1958. 
No. 2. Catalogs of meteor radiants, by Gerald S. Hawkins. Pp. 7-8, 3 figs. 
Sept. 26, 1958. 
No. 3. Papers on the solar constant: “The Constancy of the Solar Constant,” by 
Theodore E. Sterne and Nannielou Dieter, 1 fig.; “On Sterne and Dieter’s 
paper, ‘The Constancy of the Solar Constant,’” by C. G. Abbot, 9 figs.; and 
“The solar constant,” by L. B. Aldrich and W. H. Hoover. Pp. 9-24. Dec. 24, 
1958. 
No. 4. Some sunspot and flare statistics, by Barbara Bell and Harold Glazer. 
Pp. 25-38, 3 figs. May 18, 1959. 
No. 5. The Doppler widths of solar absorption lines, by Barbara Bell and Alan 
Meltzer. Pp. 39-46. May 13, 1959. 
