Appendix VII. 

 REPORT OF THE EDITOR. 



SiE : I have the honor to submit the following report on the publications of 

 the Smithsonian Institution and its bureaus during the year ending June 30, 

 1905 : 



I. CONTBIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE. 



To the series of Contributions but one memoir has been added during the 

 past year — 



1651. A Continuous Record of Atmospheric Nucleation. By Carl Barus. 

 Citj' of Washington : Published by the Smithsonian Institution, 1905. Hodgkins 

 fund. Part of Vol. XXXIV. Quarto. (In press.) 



II. SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS. 



To the series of Miscellaneous Collections the following numbers have been 

 added, all but four of them having appeared in the Quarterly Issue : 



1444. A Catalogue of North American Diptera (or Two-winged Flies). By 

 J. M. Aldrich. City of Washington : Published bj^ the Smithsonian Institution. 

 1905. Part of Vol. XLVI. 8vo. Pages 1-680. 



1543. Index to the Literature of Gallium, 1874-1903. By Philip E. Browning. 

 City of Washington : Published by the Smithsonian Institution. Part of Vol. 

 XLVI. 8vo. Pages 1-12. 



1544. Index to the Literature of Germanium, 1886-1903. By Philip E. Brown- 

 ing. City of Washington : Published by the Smithsonian Institution. Part of 

 Vol. XLVI. 8vo. Pages 1-8. 



1549. Inquiry into the Population of China. By William Woodville Rockhill. 

 Reprinted from Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections (Quarterly Issue), Vol. 

 XLVII. Pages 303-321. 



1550. The Seeds of Aneimites. By David White. Reprinted from Smith- 

 sonian Miscellaneous Collections (Quarterly Issue), Vol. XLVII. Pages 322- 

 331, plates xlvii, xlviii. 



1551. Birds in Vroeg's Catalogue, 1764. By C. Davies Sherborn and Charles 

 W. Richmond. Reprinted from Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections (Quar- 

 terly Issue), Vol. XLVII. Pages 332-347. 



1552. The Sculpin and its Habits. By Theodore Gill. Reprinted from Smith- 

 sonian Miscellaneous Collections (Quarterly Issue), Vol. XLVII. Pages 348- 

 359, plate xlix. 



1553. Report on the Construction of a Vowel Organ. By E. W. Scripture. 

 Reprinted from Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections (Quarterly Issue), Vol. 

 XLVII. Pages 360-.364, 5 figures. 



1554. Habits and Life History of the Social Spider. By N. S. Jambunathan. 

 Reprinted from Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections (Quarterly Issue), Vol. 

 XLVII. Pages 365-373, plate l. 



1555. Description of a new Sylvietta. By H. C. Oberholser. Reprinted from 

 Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections (Quarterly Issue), Vol. XLVII. Pages 

 373-375. 



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