94 REPORT OP THE SECRETARY. 



V. Publications of United States National Museum. 



The publications of the National Museum are: (a) The Annual Report, form- 

 ing a separate volume of the Report to Congress by the Board of Regents of the 

 Smithsonian Institution; (b) the Proceedings of the United States National 

 Museum; (c) the Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 



The publications issued during the year are enumerated in the Report on the 

 National Museum. These included the Annual Reports for 1905 and 1906 ; 

 volumes 31 and 32 of the Proceedings ; volume 2 of Bulletin 53 ; Part 1 of Bul- 

 letin 56 ; Bulletin 57 ; a supplement to Bulletin 51 ; Volume XI of Contributions 

 to the National Herbarium and three parts of Volume X of the same series. 

 Three other bulletins were in press at the close of the year. 



VI. Publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



The twenty-sixth annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology and 

 Bulletins 33, 34, 35, and 36 were sent to the printer during the year. Bulletins 

 31 and 32 were published in July. Part 1 of Bulletin 30, Handbook of American 

 Indians, appeared in March, and the twenty-fourth annual report in May. A 

 list of publications of the Bureau and a special article on Indian missions were 

 issued in June. These publications are elsewhere described in detail in the 

 "report on the Bureau. 



VII. Report of the American Historical Association. 



The annual report of the American Historical Association for the year 1905 

 was sent to the printer in May, 1906, and Volume I was completed in November 

 of that year. Volume II, however, comprising a complete bibliography of the 

 publications of American historical societies for more than a century, had not 

 been issued at the close of the fiscal year. 



The manuscript of the report for 1906 was received in May, 1907, but was 

 not forwarded to the printer until after the close of the fiscal year. 



VIII. Report of the Daughters of the American Revolution. 



The ninth report of the National Society of the Daughters of the American 

 Revolution was received from the society in February, 1907, and submitted to 

 Congress in accordance with law. 



IX. Smithsonian Committee on Printing. 



The editor has served as secretary of the Smithsonian advisory committee 

 on printing and publication. To this committee have been referred the manu- 

 scripts proposed for publication by the various branches of the Institution, 

 also those offered for printing in the Quarterly Issue of the Smithsonian 

 Miscellaneous Collections. The committee has also passed upon blank forms 

 for current use in the Institution and its branches. The committee considered 

 and reported to the Secretary on various questions relating in general to print- 

 ing and publication. Twenty-six meetings were held during the year and 101 

 manuscripts were reported upon. 



X. Press Abstracts of Publications. 



Beginning in March, 1907, an editorial assistant was assigned to the prepara- 

 tion of abstracts of such publications of the Institution and its branches as 

 could be put in popular language for the use of newspapers throughout the 



