Appendix VII. 



REPORT OF THE EDITOR. 



Sir: I have the honor to submit the foUowing report on tlie i>n]ihcatioiis of the 

 Smithsonian Institution for the year ending June oO, 1900: 



I. SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE. 



No memoir of tlie series of eontrilmtions was pubhslied <hiringtlie year. 



II. SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS. 



Of the series of miscellaneous collections there has been nearly completed during 

 the year a bibliography of Academic Chemical Dissertations to form a Second Supple- 

 ment to the Select Bibliography of Chemistry by H. C. Bolton, published several 

 years ago, and to which a First Supi^lenient was published in January 1899. 



The first volume of the INIiscellaneous Collections, published in 1862, comprised 738 

 pages of directions for meteorological observations, and i^sychrometrical, meteoro- 

 logical; and physical tables. In the second volume were catalogues of birds, reptiles, 

 shells, and other natural history andanthro2>ological subjects. The third and fourth 

 and sixth volumes were devoted almost entirely to catalogues and classifications of 

 insects. In the fifth volume was a bibliography of conchology and lists of Smith- 

 sonian iiublications and correspondents. The seventh volume was a monograph on 

 bats, with check lists of fossils, descriptions of land and fresh-water shells, etc. The 

 eighth volume included catalogues and descriptions of insects, shells, arrangement of 

 families of birds, circulars to collectors, etc. The ninth volume was composed of a 

 bibliography of conchology and a catalogue of society iiu])lications. In the tenth 

 volume were printed exhaustive works on mollusks, etc., and in the eleventh was 

 given a classification of families of mammals and fishes, classification of insects, etc. 

 A review of American birds in the iNIuseum of the Smithsonian Institution by Pro- 

 fessor Baird, and Clarke's Sj^ecific Gravity Tables comprised the twelfth volume. 



"Without reviewing each of the subsequent volumes, it may suffice to say that after 

 publication funds became available for the use of the National Museum, very many 

 papers of the Miscellaneous Collection class were printed in the Museum Proceed- 

 ings and Bulletins, and for a time these were reprinted in tlie miscellaneous series. 



III. SMITHSONIAN ANNUAL REPORTS. 



The Annual Report for 1897 is in three volumes — one devoted to the Institution 

 proper, one to the National Museum, and a third volume comprising some of the 

 most important papers published by the late assistant secretary, G. Brown Goode. 

 The latter volume is not completed, but the first two volumes have been distributed. 

 Both the Smithsonian and Museum volumes of the 1898 Report were practically com- 

 pleted during the year, but it was not possible to make a general distril;)ution of them. 

 Progress was made in the preparation of the Report for 1899, though no portion was 

 put in tyjie except the Secretary's Rejwrt to the Board of Regents. 



Annual Report of the Board of Regents of tlie Smitlisonian Institution, sliowing 

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

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