80 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1909. 
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 Insti- 
tution as well as those offered for printing in the Quarterly Issue of the 
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 
Upon the resignation of Dr. Cyrus Adler, chairman of the committee, as 
assistant secretary of the Institution, the Secretary on October 21 reorganized 
the committee as follows: Dr. Frederick W. True, chairman; and Messrs. C. G. 
Abbot, W. I. Adams, Frank Baker, A. Howard Clark, F. W. Hodge, Otis T. 
Mason, George P. Merrill, and Leonhard Stejneger. At the same time the Mu- 
seum advisory committee on printing and publication was discontinued and the 
responsibilities theretofore devolving upon it were transferred to the Smith- 
sonian committee. 
Twenty-seven meetings were held during the year and 110 papers and 6 
printed forms were reported on. 
: XI. PRESS ABSTRACTS OF PUBLICATIONS. 
Although the pressure of routine editorial work claimed most of the time 
of the editorial staff, abstracts of a number of the more popular publications, 
as well as articles on the work of the Institution and its branches, were fur- 
nished to a large number of newspapers, in continuance of the policy inau- 
gurated in March, 1907. 
Respectfully submitted. 
A. Howarp CuarKk, Hditor. 
Dr. CHARLES D. WALCOTT, 
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 
