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X. SMITHSONIAN ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON PRINTING AND PUBLICATION. 



The editor has continued to serve as secretary of the Smithsonian advisory 

 committee on printing and publication. To this committee have been referred 

 the manuscripts proposed for publication by the various branches of the Institu- 

 tion as well as those offered for printing in the Smithsonian Miscellaneous 

 Collections. The committee also considered forms of routine blanks and various 

 matters pertaining to printing and publication, including the qualities of paper 

 suitable for text and plates. Twenty-five meetings were held and 100 manu- 

 scripts were acted upon. 



Respectfully submitted. 



A. Howard Clark, Editor. 



Dr. Charles D. Walcott, 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



