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dons of the natural-history features of Alaska were prepared by 

 specialists of the party and published in the series above mentioned. 

 Volumes 6 and 7 on botany are still in preparation. During the past 

 year volume 14 has been issued by the Smithsonian Institution. It 

 is a monograph of the shallow-water starfishes of the North Pacific 

 coast, from the Arctic Ocean to California, and is accompanied by 

 110 plates of illustrations. 



National Museum publications. — The annual report for 1914 of 

 the assistant secretary in charge of the National Museum was pub- 

 lished during the year, together with 49 papers from the Museum 

 Proceedings, and 9 Bulletins, including a number of parts of vol- 

 umes of Contributions from the National Herbarium. 



Ethnology publications. — The Bureau of American Ethnology 

 issued during the year a bulletin on Chippewa Music and one on the 

 Ethnozoology of the Tewa Indians. There were in press at the close 

 of the year three annual reports and several bulletins, as noted in 

 the second appendix of this report. 



Astrophysical Observatory . — Volume 3 of the Annals of the Astro- 

 physical Observatory was distributed early in the fiscal year. 



Reports of historical and patriotic societies. — In accordance with 

 the national charters of the American Historical Association and 

 the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 

 annual reports of those organizations were submitted to the Insti- 

 tution and communicated to Congress. 



Allotments for printing. — The allotments to the Institution and 

 its branches, under the head of " Public printing and binding," dur- 

 ing the fiscal year, aggregating $76,200, were all utilized, with the 

 exception of small balances on work in progress at the close of the 

 year. The allotments for the year ending June 30, 1915, are as 

 follows : 



For the Smithsonian Institution: For printing and binding the annual 



reports of the Board of Regents, with general appendices $10, 000 



For the annual reports of the National Museum, with general appen- 

 dices, and for printing labels and blanks, and for the Bulletins and 

 Proceedings of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not 

 exceed 4,000 copies, and binding, in half morocco or material not more 

 expensive, scientific books, and pamphlets presented to or acquired 



by the National, Museum library 37,500 



For the annual reports and Bulletins of the Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology and for miscellaneous printing and binding for the bureau 21, 000 



For miscellaneous printing and binding: 



International Exchanges 200 



International Catalogue of Scientific Literature 100 



National Zoological Park 200 



Astrophysical Observatory 200 



For the annual report of the American Historical Association 7, 000 



Total 76,200 



