Appendix VII. 

 REPORT OF THE EDITOR. 



Sir: I have the honor to i^ubmit the following report on the publications of the 

 Smithsonian Institution for the year ending June 30, 1899: 



The Institution proper publishes three series of works: The Contributions to 

 Knowledge, in quarto, and the Miscellaneous Collections and Annual Report, in 

 octavo. The Contributions and Collections are printed in limited editions, at the 

 expen.se of the Smithsonian fund, for distribution to the principal libraries and 

 learned institutions of the world, while the Report is printed by order of Congress 

 in large editions for general distribution. So great is the demand for the Report, 

 however, that it is impracticable to have an individual list of recipients, but the 

 volume is distributed to libraries in principal centers, and so widely scattered that 

 the books may be available to the greatest number of persons. 



Under the general direction of the Institution are also published the Proceedings 

 and Bulletin of the National Museum, the Museum volume of the Smithsonian 

 Report, and the Annual Report and Bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology; 

 and through the Secretary of the Institution there are transmitted to Congress the 

 Annual Report of the American Historical Association and the Report of the 

 National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The Institution 

 has, however, no copies of either of the last two documents at its disposal, except 

 that a small number of the historical reports are available for exchange with his- 

 torical societies at home and abroad. 



I. CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE. 



No memoir of the Contributions was completed during the year. 



II. MISCELLANEOVS COLLECTIONS. 



Three works in the series of collections were issued, entitled First Supplement 

 of Bil)liography of Chemistry, Index to Literature of Thallium, and Index to Litera- 

 ture of Zirconium. 



1170. A Select Bibliography of Chemistry, 1892-1897. By H. Carrington Bolton. 

 First Supplement. Octavo, ix, 489 pages. 



In the preface the author describes this work as follows: 



The Select Bibliography of Chemistry, 1492-1892, was published in 1893; this 

 First Sujiplement includes \V(jrks omitted in tliat volume and brings the literature 

 of chemistry down to the close of the year 1897. In the following pages the lines of 

 the onginal work have l)een followed, the term chemistry being taken in its fullest 

 significance, the range of topics will be seen in the Subject-Index and their distribu- 

 tion in the table on page vii. This supplement does not embrace academic disserta- 

 tions, a catalogue of which is nearly reatly for the press. 



^s in the first volume, the titles are grouped in sections with a view to facilitating 

 reference; I, Biljliograjjhy; II, Dictionaries; III, History; IV, Biography; V, 

 Chemistry, Pure and Applied; VII, Periodicals. Section VI, Alchemy, has been 

 dropped. The scope of each section is explained in the first volume, and it need 

 only l)e here pointed out that in each (excepting those of biography and periodicals) 

 the titles are arranged alpha) )etically by authors, translations of each work following 

 the ongiiiai in the alphabetical order of the English names of the languages. The 



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