﻿84 
  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1943 
  

  

  No. 
  2. 
  The 
  evolution 
  of 
  nations, 
  by 
  John 
  R. 
  Swanton. 
  23 
  pp. 
  (Publ. 
  3686.) 
  

   June 
  24, 
  1942. 
  

  

  No. 
  3. 
  The 
  peoples 
  of 
  the 
  Soviet 
  Union, 
  by 
  Ales 
  HrdliCka. 
  29 
  pp. 
  (Publ. 
  3690.) 
  

   July 
  15, 
  1942. 
  

  

  No. 
  4. 
  Peoples 
  of 
  the 
  Philippines, 
  by 
  Herbert 
  W. 
  Krieger. 
  86 
  pp., 
  24 
  pis., 
  4 
  figs. 
  

   (Publ. 
  3694.) 
  November 
  13, 
  1942. 
  

  

  No. 
  5. 
  The 
  natural-history 
  background 
  of 
  camouflage, 
  by 
  Herbert 
  Friedmann. 
  

   17 
  pp., 
  16 
  pis. 
  (Publ. 
  3700.) 
  December 
  11, 
  1942. 
  

  

  No. 
  6. 
  Polynesians 
  — 
  explorers 
  of 
  the 
  Pacific, 
  by 
  J. 
  E. 
  Weckler, 
  Jr. 
  77 
  pp., 
  

  

  20 
  pis., 
  2 
  figs. 
  (Publ. 
  3701.) 
  January 
  13, 
  1943. 
  

  

  No. 
  7. 
  The 
  Japanese, 
  by 
  John 
  F. 
  Embree. 
  42 
  pp., 
  16 
  pis., 
  3 
  figs. 
  (Publ. 
  3702.) 
  

   January 
  23, 
  1943. 
  

  

  No. 
  8. 
  Siam 
  — 
  land 
  of 
  free 
  men, 
  by 
  H. 
  G. 
  Deignan. 
  18 
  pp., 
  8 
  pis., 
  1 
  fig. 
  (Publ. 
  

   3703. 
  ) 
  February 
  5, 
  1943. 
  

  

  No. 
  9. 
  The 
  native 
  peoples 
  of 
  New 
  Guinea, 
  by 
  M. 
  W. 
  Stirling. 
  25 
  pp., 
  28 
  pis., 
  

   1 
  fig. 
  (Publ. 
  3726.) 
  February 
  16, 
  1943. 
  

  

  No. 
  10. 
  Poisonous 
  reptiles 
  of 
  the 
  world 
  : 
  A 
  wartime 
  handbook, 
  by 
  Doris 
  M. 
  

   Cochran. 
  37 
  pp., 
  17 
  pis., 
  2 
  figs. 
  (Publ. 
  3727.) 
  March 
  19, 
  1943. 
  

  

  No. 
  11. 
  Egypt 
  and 
  the 
  Suez 
  Canal, 
  by 
  Frank 
  H. 
  H. 
  Roberts, 
  Jr. 
  68 
  pp., 
  25 
  pis., 
  

   1 
  fig. 
  (Publ. 
  3728.) 
  March 
  31, 
  1943. 
  

  

  No. 
  12. 
  Are 
  wars 
  inevitable? 
  by 
  John 
  R. 
  Swanton. 
  36 
  pp. 
  (Publ. 
  3730.) 
  

   May 
  11, 
  1943. 
  

  

  (Issued 
  after 
  the 
  close 
  of 
  the 
  fiscal 
  year) 
  

  

  No. 
  13. 
  Alaska 
  : 
  America's 
  continental 
  frontier 
  outpost, 
  by 
  Ernest 
  P. 
  Walker. 
  

   57 
  pp., 
  21 
  pis., 
  2 
  figs. 
  (Publ. 
  3733. 
  ) 
  July 
  8, 
  1943. 
  

  

  No. 
  14. 
  Islands 
  and 
  peoples 
  of 
  the 
  Indies, 
  by 
  Raymond 
  Kennedy. 
  66 
  pp., 
  

  

  21 
  pis., 
  7 
  figs. 
  (Publ. 
  3734.) 
  August 
  5, 
  1943. 
  

  

  No. 
  15. 
  Iceland 
  and 
  Greenland, 
  by 
  Austin 
  H. 
  Clark. 
  103 
  pp., 
  21 
  pis., 
  2 
  figs. 
  

   (Publ. 
  3735.) 
  August 
  19, 
  1943. 
  

  

  No. 
  16. 
  Island 
  peoples 
  of 
  the 
  western 
  Pacific: 
  Micronesia 
  and 
  Melanesia, 
  by 
  

   Herbert 
  W. 
  Krieger. 
  104 
  pp., 
  21 
  pis., 
  2 
  figs. 
  (Publ. 
  3737.) 
  September 
  15, 
  1943. 
  

  

  SMITHSONIAN 
  ANNUAL 
  REPORTS 
  

  

  Report 
  for 
  191^1. 
  — 
  The 
  complete 
  volume 
  of 
  the 
  Annual 
  Keport 
  of 
  

   the 
  Board 
  of 
  Kegents 
  for 
  1941 
  was 
  received 
  from 
  the 
  Public 
  Printer 
  

   in 
  September 
  1942. 
  

  

  Annual 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  Board 
  of 
  Regents 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  show- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  operations, 
  expenditures, 
  and 
  condition 
  of 
  the 
  Institution 
  for 
  the 
  year 
  

   ended 
  June 
  30, 
  1941. 
  xiii 
  4-596 
  pp., 
  121 
  pis., 
  17 
  figs. 
  (Publ. 
  3651.) 
  

  

  The 
  general 
  appendix 
  contained 
  the 
  following 
  papers 
  : 
  

  

  What 
  lies 
  between 
  the 
  stars? 
  by 
  Walter 
  S. 
  Adams. 
  

  

  Artificial 
  converters 
  of 
  solar 
  energy, 
  by 
  H. 
  C. 
  Hottel. 
  

  

  The 
  new 
  frontiers 
  in 
  the 
  atom, 
  by 
  Ernest 
  O. 
  Lawrence. 
  

  

  Science 
  shaping 
  American 
  culture, 
  by 
  Arthur 
  H. 
  Compton. 
  

  

  Mathematics 
  and 
  the 
  sciences, 
  by 
  J. 
  W. 
  Lasley, 
  Jr. 
  

  

  The 
  role 
  of 
  science 
  in 
  the 
  electrical 
  industry, 
  by 
  M. 
  W. 
  Smith. 
  

  

  The 
  new 
  synthetic 
  textile 
  fibers, 
  by 
  Herbert 
  R. 
  Mauersberger. 
  

  

  Plastics, 
  by 
  Gordon 
  M. 
  Kline. 
  

  

  Vitamins 
  and 
  their 
  occurrence 
  in 
  foods, 
  by 
  Hazel 
  E. 
  Munsell. 
  

  

  Science 
  and 
  human 
  prospects, 
  by 
  Eliot 
  Blackwelder. 
  

  

  Iceland, 
  land 
  of 
  frost 
  and 
  fire, 
  by 
  Vigfus 
  Einarsson. 
  

  

  