20 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1917. 



National Museum publications. — The Museum issued during the 

 year 1 volume of the proceedings, 73 papers forming parts of this 

 and other volumes, and 6 bulletins. 



Bureau of Ethnology publications. — The Bureau of American 

 Ethnology published 1 annual report, 2 bulletins, and a list of pub- 

 lications of the bureau. 



Reports of historical and patriotic societies. — In accordance with 

 a provision in the charters of the American Historical Association 

 and the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolu- 

 tion, the annual reports of those organizations were submitted to 

 your secretary, and communicated by him to Congress. 



Allotments for printing. — The allotments for the printing of the 

 Smithsonian report and the various publications of the branches 

 of the Institution were practically used up, a small balance remaining 

 in one or two cases owing to the impossibility of getting certain 

 publications off the press before the close of the year. 



The allotments for the year ending June 30, 1918, are as follows : 



For the Smithsonian Institution : For printing and binding the annual 

 reports of the Board of Regents, with general appendices, the editions 

 of which shall not exceed 10,000 copies $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 ac- 

 quired 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 : TG. 201 1 



Committee on printing and publication. — The Smithsonian advis- 

 ory committee on printing and publication considers all manuscripts 

 offered for publication by the Institution or its branches. During 

 the past year 16 meetings were held, at which 101 manuscripts were 

 considered and acted upon. The membership of the committee was 

 as follows: Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, head curator of biology, Na- 

 tional Museum, chairman; Dr. C. G. Abbot, director of the Astro- 

 physical Observatory ; Mr. Ned Hollister, superintendent of the Na- 

 tional Zoological Park; Mr. A. Howard Clark, editor of the Insti- 

 tution, secretary of the committee ; Mr. F. W. Hodge, ethnologist in 

 charge of the Bureau of American Ethnology; and Dr. George P. 

 Merrill, head curator of geology, National Museum. 



