Appendix 8. 

 REPORT ON THE PUBLICATIONS. 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the following report on the pub- 

 lications of the Smithsonian Institution and its branches during 

 the year ending June 30, 1916 : 



The Institution proper published during the year 22 papers in 

 the series of Miscellaneous Collections, 2 annual reports, pamphlet 

 copies of 54 papers from the general appendices of these reports, and 

 8 special publications. The Bureau of American Ethnology pub- 

 lished 2 annual reports, separates of 4 accompanying papers in these 

 reports, and 2 bulletins. The United States National Museum issued 

 •1 annual report, 2 volumes of the proceedings, and 52 separate papers 

 forming parts of these and other volumes, and 4 bulletins. 



The total number of copies of publications distributed by the 

 Institution and its branches was 153,262, which includes 249 volumes 

 and separate memoirs of Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, 

 32,397 volumes and separate pamphlets of Smithsonian Miscel- 

 laneous Collections, 25,718 volumes and separate pamphlets of Smith- 

 sonian Annual Reports, 73,798 volumes and separates of National 

 Museum publications, 12,420 publications of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, 7,696 special publications, 47 volumes of the Annals of 

 Astrophysical Observatory, 83 reports of the Harriman Alaska Expe- 

 dition, and 647 reports of the American Historical Association. 



SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE. 



QUARTO. 



The title-page, table of contents, and cover for volume 27 were 

 issued, and there was in press at the close of the year a memoir by 

 Dr. J. S. Foote, of Creighton Medical College, on " The comparative 

 histology of the femur," the result of extended original research. 



SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS. 

 OCTAVO. 



Of the Miscellaneous Collections, volume 62, 2 papers were pub- 

 lished ; of volume 63, 1 paper ; of volume 64, 3 papers ; of volume 65, 

 8 papers and title-page and table of contents ; of volume 66, 8 papers ; 

 in all, 22 papers, as follows : 



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