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Report for 1944- — The Report of the Secretary, which included the 

 financial report of the executive committee of the Board of Regents, 

 and which will form part of the Annual Report of the Board of 

 Regents to Congress, was not printed as a separate pamphlet, but was 

 mimeographed, in condensed form, for the use of the Board of 

 Regents. 



The Report volume, containing the general appendix, was in press 

 at the close of the year. 



SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS 



Publications of the Smithsonian Institution issued between July 1, 1939, and 

 July 1, 1944. 18 pp. March 1945. 



Classified list of Smithsonian publications available for distribution May 1, 

 1945, compiled by Helen Munroe. 50 pp. (Publ. 3802.) May 1945. 



The following special publications were reprinted : 



National Aircraft Collection, by Paul Garber. Fifth Edition. 43 pp., illus. 

 (Publ. 3635.) March 1945. 



Brief Guide to the Smithsonian Institution. Sixth Edition. 80 pp., illus. 

 April 1945. 



A field collector's manual in natural history, prepared by members of the 

 staff of the Smithsonian Institution. 118 pp., 66 figs. (Publ. 3766.) June 1945. 



PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



The editorial work of the National Museum has continued during 

 the year under the immediate direction of the editor, Paul H. Oehser. 

 There were issued 18 Proceedings papers, 1 Bulletin, and 1 separate 

 paper in the Bulletin series of Contributions from the United States 

 National Herbarium, as follows : 



PROCEEDINGS: VOLUME 94 



No. 3177. Parasitic copepods in the United States National Museum, by Charles 

 Branch Wilson. Pp. 529-582, pis. 20-34. July 10, 1944. 

 Title page, table of contents, and index. Pp. i-vi, 583-598. December 1, 1944. 



VOLUME 95 



No. 3179. A collection of birds from northern Guanacaste, Costa Rica, by 

 Alexander Wetmore. Pp. 25-80, pis. 3-6. July 7, 1944. 



No. 3180. Studies in Neotropical Mallophaga (III) [Tinamidae No. 2], by 

 M. A. Carriker, Jr. Pp. 81-235, figs. 1-29. October 10, 1944. 



No. 3181. The fishes of the family Characinidae from Venezuela, with descrip- 

 tions of seventeen new forms, by Leonard P. Schultz. Pp. 235-367, figs. 30-56. 

 September 6, 1944. 



No. 3182. New genera and species of oriental and Australian plant bugs in the 

 United States National Museum, by Tsai-Yu Hsiao. Pp. 369-396, fig. 57. August 

 5, 1944. 



No. 3183. New species of buprestid beetles from Trinidad, by W. S. Fisher. 

 Pp. 397-409. July 22, 1944. 



