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ing a linguistic map showing the distribution and interrelations of 

 the Cree and the Montagnais-Naskapi dialects. 



PUBLICATIONS 



The Institution and its branches issued during the year a total of 

 68 publications. Of this number, 38 were issued by the Smithsonian 

 proper, 26 by the National Museum, and 4 by the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology. The titles, authors, and other information regarding all 

 these publications will be found in the report of the editor, appendix 

 11. The total number of copies of publications distributed was 129,478. 

 The Institution depends in large part upon its series of publications 

 to carry out one of its primary functions— the diffusion of knowl- 

 edge. Its other means— its museum and art gallery exhibits, its ex- 

 tensive correspondence, its science news releases, and educational radio 

 programs— are also important, but in its publications are presented in 

 permanent form the results of researches by the scientific staffs of the 

 Institution, the National Museum, the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 and other branches. These publications are regularly distributed free 

 to a large list of libraries and educational institutions, where they are 

 readily available to students and to other scientific workers. 



Among the larger publications of the year there may be mentioned 

 as particularly outstanding a work by Henry B. Collins, Jr., entitled 

 "Archeology of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska," in which he summarizes 

 the results of several years' work in the far north on the prehistory 

 of the Eskimo; "Preliminary Keport on the Smithsonian Institution- 

 Harvard University Archeological Expedition to Northwestern Hon- 

 duras, 1936," by William Duncan Strong, Alfred Kidder II, and A. J 

 Drexel Paul, Jr.; "The Oxystomatous and Allied Crabs of America," 

 by Mary J. Rathbun, another in her series of monographs on Ameri- 

 can crabs; and "Historical and Ethnographical Material on the Jivaro 

 Indians," by M. W. Stirling, an account of the Jivaro head-hunters of 

 Ecuador based on first-hand information obtained by Mr. Stirling on 

 a recent expedition to the region occupied by these Indians. 



LIBRARY 



Accessions to the Smithsonian library for the year numbered 10,892 

 items, received mostly through exchange and gift. These bring 'the 

 total number of items in the library to 887,414, exclusive of thousands 

 of volumes incomplete or unbound. The outstanding gift of the year 

 was a collection of 1,186 volumes and pamphlets on the history and 

 culture of China, presented by Mrs. William Woodville Rockhill. The 

 Geophysical Laboratory presented 3,312 miscellaneous publications, 

 the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 653; and 



