Appendix VIII. 



REPORT ON THE PUBLICATIONS. 



Sir : I have tlie honor to submit the following report on the publications of 

 the Smithsonian Institution and its branches during the fiscal year ending 

 June 30, 1910: 



There was distributed a total of 801 volumes and separates in the series 

 of Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, 17,560 in the series of Smith- 

 sonian Miscellaneous Collections, 28,879 in the series of Smithsonian Annual 

 Reports, and 2,179 in the series of Special Publications. In addition, there 

 were 959 publications not included in the Smithsonian series distributed by 

 the Institution, and 5,274 publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology 

 sent out during the six months from January 1 to June 30, 1910. This makes a 

 grand total of 55,652, an increase of 11,489 over the previous year. 



I. SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE. 



No memoirs of the series of Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge were 

 issued during the year, although progress was made in preparing for press the 

 Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight which was begun by the late Secretary 

 Langley in 1904 and continued by Mr. Charles M. Manly, assistant in charge 

 of experiments. 



II. SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS, 



In the series of Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections there were published 

 during the year (1) fifteen papers in the Quarterly Issue, which was discon- 

 tinued December 31, 1909, completing volume 52 of the regular series; (2) 

 one paper in volume 51; (3) seven papers in volume 54, completing that 

 volume; (4) volume 55, Bibliography of Aeronautics; (5) and seven papers 

 in volume 56. The Quarterly Issue papers were as follows: 



1872. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Volume 52, part 4 (Quarterly 

 Issue, vol. 5, part 4) containing Publications, 1873 to 1887. Published Janu- 

 ary 20, 1910. Octavo. Pages viii, 403-514, with plates 38 to 66. (The 

 Quarterly Issue ends with this volume.) 



1873. Prehistoric Ruins of the Gila Valley. By J. Walter Fewkes. Published 

 August 4, 1909. Octavo. Pages 403 to 436, with Plates 38 to 42. 



1874. Description of a New Frog from the Philippine Islands. By Leonhard 

 Stejneger, Curator, Division of Reptiles and Batrachians, U. S. National 

 Museum. Published August 4, 1909. Octavo. Pages 437-439. 



1875. A New Genus of Fossil Cetaceans from Santa Cruz Territory, Patagonia ; 

 and Description of a Mandible and Vertebrse of Prosqualodon. By Frederick 

 W. True, Head Curator of Biology, U. S. National Museum. Published 

 August 7, 1909. Octavo. Pages 441-456, with Plates 43 to 45. 



1876. Notes on Certain Features of the Life of the Alaskan Freshwater Sculpin. 

 By Barton A. Bean and Alfred C. Weed, of the Division of Fishes, U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum. Published August 19, 1909. Octavo. Pages 457-460. 



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