HO ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1945 



No. 10. Poisonous reptiles of the world : A wartime handbook, by Doris M. 

 Cochran. 



No. 11. Egypt and the Suez Canal, by Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr. 



No. 12. Are wars inevitable? by John R. Swanton. 



No. 13. Alaska : America's continental frontier outpost, by Ernest P. Walker. 



No. 14. Islands and peoples of the Indies, by Raymond Kennedy. 



No. 15. Iceland and Greenland, by Austin H. Clark. 



No. 16. Island peoples of the western Paciiic : Micronesia and Melanesia, by 

 Herbert W. Krieger. 



No. 17. Burma — gateway to China, by H. G. Deignan. 



No. 18 on "The Peoples of India," by William H. Gilbert, and No. 19 on "The 

 Peoples of French Indochina," by Olov Janse, were issued so near the end of 

 the previous fiscal year that no reprints were necessitated. 



SMITHSONIAN ANNUAL REPORTS 



Report for 191$. — The complete volume of the Annual Report of 

 the Board of Regents for 1943 was received from the Public Printer 

 in October 1944: 



Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution showing 

 the operations, expenditures, and conditions of the Institution for the year ended 

 June 30, 1943. xi+609 pp., 141 pis., 64 figs. (Publ. 3741.) 



The general appendix contained the following papers (Pubis. 3742- 

 3764) : 



Solar radiation as a power source, by C. G. Abbot. 



Some biological effects of solar radiation, by Brian O'Brien. 



The sea as a storehouse, by E. F. Armstrong. 



Progress in new synthetic textile fibers, by Herbert R. Mauersberger. 



Petroleum geology, by William B. Heroy. 



The 1942 eruption of Mauna Loa, Hawaii, by Gordon A. MacDonald. 



New metals and new methods, by C. H. Desch. 



Oceanography, by Henry C. Stetson. 



The ocean current called "The Child," by Eliot G. Mears. 



Maps, strategy, and world politics, by Richard Edes Harrison and Robert 



Strausz-Hupe. 

 The natural-history background of camouflage, by Herbert Friedmann. 

 Dangerous reptiles, by Doris M. Cochran. 



The plants of China and their usefulness to man, by Egbert H. Walker. 

 Natural rubber, by O. F. Cook. 

 Lessons from the Old World to the Americas in land use, by Walter Clay 



Lowdermilk. 

 Areal and temporal aspects of aboriginal South American culture, by John 



M. Cooper. 

 Origin of the Far Eastern civilizations : A brief handbook, by Carl Whiting 



Bishop. 

 Contours of culture in Indonesia, by Raymond Kennedy. 

 The Arab village community of the Middle East, by Afif I. Tannous. 

 Chemotherapeutic agents from microbes, by Robert L. Weintraub. 

 Sulfonamides in the treatment of war wounds and burns, by Charles L. 



Fox. 

 The yellow fever situation in the Americas, by Wilbur A. Sawyer. 

 Some food problems in wartime, by George R. Cowgill. 



