﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  SECRETARY 
  11 
  

  

  In 
  his 
  special 
  report 
  the 
  Secretary 
  outlined 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  more 
  im- 
  

   portant 
  recent 
  activities 
  carried 
  on 
  by 
  the 
  Institution 
  and 
  the 
  

   branches, 
  with 
  special 
  emphasis 
  on 
  phases 
  of 
  the 
  work 
  directly 
  con- 
  

   nected 
  with 
  the 
  war. 
  

  

  FINANCES 
  

  

  A 
  statement 
  on 
  finances 
  will 
  be 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  execu- 
  

   tive 
  committee 
  of 
  the 
  Board 
  of 
  Regents, 
  page 
  89. 
  

  

  PUBLICATIONS 
  

  

  In 
  normal 
  times 
  the 
  Institution 
  publishes 
  the 
  results 
  of 
  researches 
  

   by 
  members 
  of 
  its 
  scientific 
  staff 
  in 
  several 
  series, 
  namely, 
  the 
  Smith- 
  

   sonian 
  Miscellaneous 
  Collections, 
  the 
  Bulletins 
  and 
  Proceedings 
  of 
  

   the 
  National 
  Museum, 
  Contributions 
  from 
  the 
  National 
  Herbarium, 
  

   the 
  Bulletins 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  American 
  Ethnology, 
  and 
  the 
  Annals 
  

   of 
  the 
  Astrophysical 
  Observatory. 
  It 
  also 
  publishes 
  the 
  Annual 
  

   Reports 
  of 
  the 
  Board 
  of 
  Regents, 
  which 
  contain 
  a 
  selection 
  of 
  articles 
  

   summarizing 
  developments 
  in 
  all 
  branches 
  of 
  science, 
  and 
  other 
  oc- 
  

   casional 
  publications. 
  In 
  wartime, 
  however, 
  publication 
  has 
  been 
  

   restricted 
  largely 
  to 
  material 
  that 
  relates 
  to 
  the 
  war 
  or 
  is 
  of 
  value 
  

   in 
  strengthening 
  cultural 
  relations 
  with 
  the 
  American 
  nations 
  to 
  the 
  

   south 
  of 
  us. 
  Otherwise 
  only 
  such 
  papers 
  were 
  sent 
  to 
  the 
  printer 
  

   during 
  the 
  year 
  as 
  seemed 
  for 
  one 
  reason 
  or 
  another 
  to 
  be 
  of 
  sufficient 
  

   importance 
  to 
  the 
  advancement 
  of 
  science 
  to 
  warrant 
  publication 
  

   even 
  in 
  wartime. 
  This 
  wartime 
  policy 
  will 
  not 
  be 
  apparent 
  from 
  

   the 
  titles 
  listed 
  in 
  this 
  year's 
  report 
  on 
  publications, 
  however, 
  be- 
  

   cause 
  a 
  large 
  proportion 
  of 
  the 
  papers 
  issued 
  went 
  to 
  the 
  printer 
  in 
  

   the 
  previous 
  fiscal 
  year 
  before 
  the 
  policy 
  went 
  into 
  effect. 
  

  

  The 
  new 
  series, 
  Smithsonian 
  War 
  Background 
  Studies, 
  begun 
  in 
  

   the 
  summer 
  of 
  1942, 
  was 
  planned 
  for 
  the 
  purpose 
  of 
  making 
  avail- 
  

   able 
  authentic 
  information 
  on 
  the 
  less 
  well-known 
  areas 
  and 
  peoples 
  

   involved 
  in 
  the 
  war. 
  Twelve 
  numbers 
  had 
  been 
  issued 
  at 
  the 
  close 
  

   of 
  the 
  fiscal 
  year, 
  and 
  four 
  others 
  were 
  in 
  press. 
  As 
  the 
  Far 
  East 
  

   and 
  the 
  Pacific 
  islands 
  are 
  probably 
  the 
  least 
  well-known 
  of 
  the 
  war 
  

   areas, 
  the 
  majority 
  of 
  the 
  papers 
  deal 
  with 
  those 
  regions. 
  A 
  com- 
  

   plete 
  list 
  of 
  the 
  papers 
  issued 
  and 
  in 
  press 
  will 
  be 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  

   report 
  on 
  publications, 
  appendix 
  10. 
  The 
  demand 
  for 
  papers 
  in 
  the 
  

   series 
  was 
  immediate 
  and 
  much 
  larger 
  than 
  had 
  been 
  anticipated. 
  

   The 
  editions 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  few 
  papers 
  had 
  been 
  set 
  at 
  3,500 
  copies, 
  

   nearly 
  twice 
  as 
  large 
  as 
  the 
  usual 
  editions 
  of 
  Smithsonian 
  papers, 
  

   but 
  these 
  were 
  soon 
  exhausted. 
  Reprints 
  of 
  these 
  were 
  issued, 
  and 
  

   editions 
  of 
  later 
  papers 
  were 
  successively 
  increased 
  until 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  

   of 
  the 
  year 
  8,000 
  copies 
  were 
  being 
  printed. 
  The 
  demand, 
  as 
  might 
  

   be 
  expected, 
  was 
  greatest 
  from 
  Army 
  and 
  Navy 
  organizations 
  and 
  

   personnel 
  and 
  from 
  universities 
  and 
  schools. 
  In 
  addition 
  to 
  the 
  

  

  