112 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1914. 



Modem ideas on the eud of the world, by Gustav Jauiiiuun. 



Recent developments iu electromaguetism, by Eugene Bloeh. 



Wireless transmission of energy, by Elihu Thomson. 



Oil films on water and on mercury, by Henri Devaux. 



Water and volcanic activity, by Arthur L. Day and E. S. Shepherd. 



Ripple marks, by Ch. Epry. 



Notes on the geological history of the walnuts and hickories, by Edward W. 



Berry. 

 The formation of leafmold, by Frederick V. Coville. 

 The development of orchid cultivation and its bearing upon evolutionary theories, 



by J. Costantin. 

 The manufacture of nitrates from the atmosphere, by Ernest Kllburn Scott. 

 The geologic history of China and its influence upon the Chinese people, by 



Eliot Blackwelder. 

 The problems of heredity, by E. Apert. 

 Habits of fiddler-crabs, by A. S. Pearse. 

 The abalones of California, by Charles L. Edwards. 

 The value of birds to man, by James Buckland. 

 ^Experiments in feeding hummingbirds during seven summers, by Althea R. 



Sherman. 

 What the American Bird Banding Association has accomplished during 1912, 



by Howard H. Cleaves. 

 The whale fisheries of the world, by Charles Rabot. 

 The most ancient skeletal remains of man, by Ales Hrdlicka. 

 The redistribution of mankind, by H. N. Dickson. 



The earliest forms of human habitation, and their relation to the general de- 

 velopment of civilization, by M. Hoernes. 

 Feudalism in Persia ; its origin, development, and present condition, by Jacques 



de Morgaa. 

 Hhintoism and its significance, by K. Kanokogi. 



The Minoan and Mycenaean element in Hellenic life, by A. J. Evans. 

 Flameless combustion, by Carleton Ellis. 



Problems in smoke, fume, and dust abatement, by F. G. Cottrell. 

 Twenty years' progress in marine construction, by Alexander Gracie. 

 Creating a subterranean river and supplying a metropolis with mountain water, 



by J. Bernard Walker and A. Russell Bond. 

 The application of the physiology of color vision in modern art, by Henry G. 



Keller and J. J. R. JNIacleod. 

 Fundamentals of housing reform, by James Ford. 

 The economic and social role of fashion, by Pierre Clerget. 

 The work of J. van't Hoff, by G. Bruni. 



SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS. 



The following publications were issued in octavo form : 



Publication lists. 



Classified list of Smithsonian publications available for distribution April 25, 



1914. Published April 25, 1914. vi+32 pp. (Publ. 2268.) 

 Publications of the Smithsonian Institution issued between Januai-y 1 and June 



30, 1913. July 15, 1913. 2 pp. (Publ. 2228.) 

 Publications of the Smithsonian Institution issued between January 1 and 



September 30, 1913. October 14, 1913. 4 pp. (Publ. 2244.) 

 Publications of the Smithsonian Institution issued between January 1 and 



December 31, 1913. January 22, 1914. 4 pp. (Publ. 2257.) 



