14 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



added during the year, and several papers were accepted and progress 

 made toward their publication. Among the accepted papers may be 

 mentioned an Index to the Literature of Thorium, 1817-1902, by 

 Dr. Cavalier H. Joiiet; a Second Supplement to Select Bibliography 

 of Chemistry, b}^ Dr. H. C. Bolton, bringing the subject down to close 

 of the year 1902; Researches on the Attainment of Yer}^ Low Tem- 

 peratures, by Prof. Morris W. Travers, of University College, Lon- 

 don, and a paper by Dr. Amadeus W. Grabau, on the phylogeny or 

 tribal history of Fusus and its allies, being a very complete description 

 of the various fossil and recent genera and species classed by conchol- 

 ogists under the name Fusus. 



Among the proposed publications ma^' be mentioned an elaborate 

 work by the late Dr. G. Brown Goode on "What has been done in 

 America for Science." Doctor Goode left the manuscript nearly com- 

 pleted, and arrangements have been made to bring it to date and to 

 put it in condition for printing. 



The revised edition of the Smithsonian Physical Tables, issued in 

 1897, having become exhausted, and the demand continuing, a second 

 edition was printed in January, 1903. 



Arrangements have been made for a (piarterly issue of the Smithsonian 

 Miscellaneous Collections in order to afford a medium for the prompt 

 publication of brief accounts of the results of researches by the Insti- 

 tution and its bureaus, especially those of a preliminary nature, 

 together with such notices concerning the Institution and its activities 

 as may be of general public interest. Each issue will consist of about 

 140 pages of text and will be amply illustrated. The quarterly issue 

 will supplement, not replace, the regular series of the Miscellaneous 

 Collections. 



Mention has heretofore been made of the character of papers pub- 

 lished in the General Appendix of the Regents' Report to Congress. 

 This report, to which I have given much personal care, is the only 

 Smithsonian publication issued in large numbers, and 3^et the popular 

 demand for it is far in excess of the edition of 12,000 copies authorized 

 by law. The volume for 1901 was received from the Public Printer 

 early in the autunm of 1902 and in a very few weeks ever}^ available 

 copy was distributed. It is desirable that a larger edition should be 

 authorized. 



The manuscript for the 1902 report was sent to the Public Printer 

 in May, 1903, and most of it was in type before June 30. 



Besides the above pul)lications of the Institution itself a large num- 

 ber of works on anthropological, biological, and geological subjects, 

 issued by the National Museum and the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 are referred to in detail in appendices to this report. There was also 

 sent to press a report by the Astrophysical Observatory on the solar 

 eclipse expedition of 1900. The Secretary of the Institution received 



