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of the annual report of the Board of Eegents to Congress, were pub- 

 lished in pamphlet form in December, 1912, as follows : 



Report of tlie executive committee and Proceedings of the Board of Regents 



for tlie year ending June 30, 1912. 22 pp. (Publ. 2155.) 

 Report of tlie secretary of the Smitlisonian Institution for the year ending 



June 30, 1912. iii, 110 p., 2 pi. (Publ. 2156.) 



The general appendix to the Smithsonian Report for 1912 was in 

 type, but actual presswork was not completed at the close of the fiscal 

 year. In the general appendix ai'e the following papers : 



The year's progress in astronomy, by P. Puiseux. 



The spiral nebulte, by P. Puiseux. 



The radiation of the sun, by C. G. Abbot. 



Molecular theories and mathematics, by Emile Borel. 



Modern mathematical research, by G. A. Miller. 



The connection between the ether and matter, by Henri Poincare. 



Experiments with soap bubbles, by C. V. Boys. 



Measurements of inflnitestimal quantities of substances, by William Ramsay. 



The latest achievements and problems of the chemical industry, by Carl 



Duisberg. 

 Holes in the air, by W. J. Humphreys. 

 Review of applied mechanics, by L. Lecornu. 

 Report on the recent great eruption of the volcano " Stromboli," bj' Frank. A. 



Perret. 

 The glacial and postglacial lalies of the Great Lakes region, by Frank B. Taylor. 

 Applied geology, by Alfred 11. Brooks. 



The relations of paleobotany to geology, by F. H. Knowlton. 

 Geophysical research, by Arthur L. Day. 

 A trip to Madagascar, the country of beryls, by A. Lacroix. 

 The fluctuating climate of North America, by Ellsworth Huntington. 

 The survival of organs and the " cultui-e " of living tissues, by R. Legendre. 

 Adaptation and inheritance in the light of modern experimental investigation, 



by Paul Kammerer. 

 The paleogeographical relations of antarctica, by Charles Hedley. 

 The ants and their guests, by P. E. Wasmann. 

 The penguins of the antarctic regions, by L. Gain. 

 The derivation of the European domestic animals, by C. Keller. 

 Life : its nature, origin, and maintenance, by E. A. Schafer. 

 The origin of life: a chemist's fantasy, by H. E. Armstrong. 

 The appearance of life on worlds and the hypothesis of Arrhenius, by Alphonse 



Berget. 

 The evolution of man, by G. Elliot Smith. 

 The history and varieties of human speech, by Edward Sapir. 

 Ancient Greece and its slave population, by S. Zaborowski. 

 Origin and evolution of the blond Europeans, by Adolphe Bloch. 

 History of the finger-print system, by Berthold Laufer. 

 Urbanism : A historic, geographic, and economic study, by Pierre Clerget. 

 The Sinai problem, by E. Oberhummer. 

 The music of primitive peoples and the beginnings of European music, by 



Willy Pastor. 

 Expedition to the South Pole, by Roald Amundsen. 

 Icebergs and their location in navigation, by Howard T. Barnes. 

 Henri Poincare, his scientific work, his philosophy, by Charles Nordmann. 



