APPENDIX 12 
REPORT ON PUBLICATIONS 
Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report on the publica- 
tions of the Smithsonian Institution and its branches during the year 
ended June 80, 1948. 
The Institution published during the year 22 papers, 1 title page 
and table of contents, and 1 reprint of a paper in the Smithsonian 
Miscellaneous Collections, 1 Annual Report of the Board of Regents 
and pamphlet copies of 17 articles in the Report appendix, 1 Annual 
Report of the Secretary, and 2 special publications. 
The United States National Museum issued 1 Annual Report, 17 
Proceedings papers, 4 Bulletins, and 2 separate papers in the Bulletin 
series, Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. 
The Bureau of American Ethnology issued 1 Annual Report and 
2 volumes of Bulletin 143. 
The Institute of Social Anthropology issued 4 publications. 
Of the publications there were distributed 165,740 copies, which 
included 15 volumes and separates of Smithsonian Contributions to 
Knowledge, 44,338 volumes and separates of Smithsonian Miscellane- 
ous Collections, 25,242 volumes and separates of Smithsonian Annual 
Reports, 6,922 War Background Studies, 12,215 Smithsonian special 
publications, 65 reports on the Harriman Alaska Expedition, 50,970 
volumes and separates of National Museum publications, 14,208 publi- 
cations of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 10,834 publications of 
the Institute of Social Anthropology, 17 catalogs of the National 
Collection of Fine Arts, 66 volumes and pamphlets of the Freer Gal- 
lery of Art, 15 Annals of the Astrophysical Observatory, 760 reports 
of the American Historical Association, and 78 miscellaneous publi- 
cations not printed by the Smithsonian Institution (mostly Survival 
Manuals). 
SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 
In this series there were issued title page and table of contents of 
volume 91, 14 papers in volume 107, whole volumes 108 and 109, 6 
papers in volume 110, and a reprint of 1 paper in volume 74, as follows: 
VOLUME 91 
Title page and table of contents. (Publ. 3903.) Aug. 29, 1947. 
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