192 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1957 



The hibernation of mammals, by L. Harrison Matthews. 



Parasites common to animals and man, by Benjamin Schwartz. 



Some observations on the functional organization of the human brain, by Wilder 



Penfield. 

 The place of tropical soils in feeding the world, by Robert L. Pendleton. 

 Tree rings and history in the western United States, by Edmund Schulman. 

 New light on the dodo and its illustrators, by Herbert Friedmann. 

 George Catlin, painter of Indians and the West, by John C. Ewers. 



Report for 1956. — The Report of the Secretary, which will form 

 part of the Annual Report of the Board of Regents to Congress, was 

 issued on January 18, 1957 : 



Report of the Secretary and financial report of the Executive Committee of the 

 Board of Regents for the year ended June 30, 1956. ix+211 pp., 8 pis. 

 (Publ. 4268.) 



Special Publications 



The national aeronautical collections, by Paul E. Garber. 166 pp., illustr. 



(Publ. 4255.) [August 20], 1956. ($1.50.) 

 The world of the dinosaurs, by David H. Dunkle. 22 pp., illustr. (Publ. 4296.) 



[May 24], 1957. (50 cents.) 



Reprints 



A biographical sketch of James Smithson, by Samuel Pierpont Langley. 20 pp., 

 4 pis. Smithsonian Spec. Publ. 2276. 1956. (50 cents.) 



FlLMSTRIP 



Let's Visit the Smithsonian, a filmstrip with 48 color views of the buildings, 

 exhibits, and activities of the Institution, a recorded 30-minute lecture, and 

 an accompanying booklet containing pictures and text. Produced under a 

 grant from the Link Foundation by the Society for Visual Education. 1957. 

 ($10 complete ; $6.50 without record.) 



PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Report 



The United States National Museum annual report for the year ended June 30. 

 1956. Pp. ix+105, illustr., January 18, 1957. 



Bulletins 



185, part 6. Checklist of the coleopterous insects of Mexico, Central America, 

 the West Indies, and South America, by Richard E. Blackwelder. Pp. viii-h 

 927-1492, May 15, 1957. 



207. American moths of the subfamily Phycitinae, by Carl Heinrich. viii-f 581 

 pp., 1,138 figs., September 18, 1956. 



209. Nearctic wasps of the subfamilies Pepsinae and Ceropalinae, by Henry 

 Townes. iv+286 pp., 161 figs., 4 pis., March 11, 1957. 



210. The first quarter-century of steam locomotives in North America: Re- 

 maining relics and operable replicas, with a catalog of locomotive models 

 in the United States National Museum, by Smith Hempstone Oliver. 112 pp., 

 81 figs., frontispiece, August 6, 1956. 



213. Automobiles and motorcycles in the U. S. National Museum, by Smith 

 Hempstone Oliver. 157 pp., 103 figs., frontispiece, June 25, 1957. 



