10 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1957 



both of books and periodicals, entomology and geology this year being 

 particularly well represented. At the close of the year the holdings 

 of the library and all its branches aggregated 966,401 volumes, in- 

 cluding 586,700 in the Smithsonian Deposit in the Library of Con- 

 gress but excluding unbound periodicals and reprints and separates 

 from serial publications. 



Publications. — Eighty new publications appeared under Smithso- 

 nian imprint during the year (see Keport on Publications, p. 189, for 

 full list). Outstanding among these were: "Small Arms and Am- 

 munition in the United States Service, 1776-1865," by Berkeley R. 

 Lewis; "Annotated, Subject-heading Bibliography of Termites," by 

 Thomas E. Snyder; "Crustacean Metamorphoses," by E. E. Snod- 

 grass ; "The National Aeronautical Collections," by Paul E. Garber ; 

 "American Moths of the Subfamily Phycitinae," by Carl Heinrich ; 

 "The First Quarter-century of Steam Locomotives in North America" 

 and "Automobiles and Motorcycles in the U. S. National Museum," 

 both by Smith Hempstone Oliver; "Seminole Music," by Frances 

 Densmore; "Guaymi Grammar," by Ephraim S. Alphonse; "New 

 Horizons in Astronomy," edited by Fred L. Whipple ; "The World of 

 the Dinosaurs," by David H. Dunkle; and "Meissen and Other Ger- 

 man Porcelain in the Alfred Duane Pell Collection," by Paul V. Gard- 

 ner. In all, 405,266 copies of printed matter were distributed. 



