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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   683
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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY.

The Secretary, in presenting his Annual Report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, said:-

One hundred and nine publications have been issued since the last annual meeting of the Board.  Of these, forty-four were published by the Institution proper, sixty-three by the National Museum, and two by the Bureau of American Ethnology.  There were distributed during the past fiscal year 168,932 copies of those publications.

Besides the usual lar[[overwritten]]h[[/overwritten]]^[[g]]e number of technical papers, certain of the year's publications have been of considerable general interest, as for instance a paper by Dr. C. W. Gilmore, describing and illustrating a large collection made by him of fossil foot-prints of extinct animals discovered in the Grand Canyon.  A paper by Miss Frances Densmore discusses the music and songs of the Tule Indians of Panama - the so-called "white Indians".  A publication by H. H. Clayton contains the further results of his study of the relation of weather to changes in solar radiation.  The last Smithsonian Annual Exploration Pamphlet contains accounts of 26 separate field expeditions initiated or cooperated in by the Institution, a larger number than has ever been sent out in any one year.  These expeditions are, of course, financed by friends of the Institution or through cooperation with other scientific institutions.

The Smithsonian Annual Report for 1925, containing a General Appendix of 27 articles reviewing in semi-popular form recent progress in science, has been issued, and the Report for 1926 is already partly in type. The second illustrated catalogue of the collections of the National Gallery of Art was issued during the year.  A Smithsonian Special Publication of particular interest as being probably the last publication of a long life's work in science is Dr. Frank Springer's monograph on "American Silurian Crinoids", the entire cost of which, amounting to several thousand dollars, was borne by the author.

The usual large number of Proceedings papers and several Bulletins were issued by the National Museum, among them the final part of a volume on the Trees and Shrubs of Mexico, by Paul C. Standley, a work of both scientific and economic importance, and a Bulletin on the birds of Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Chile, by Assistant Secretary Wetmore.  The Bureau of American Ethnology published the 40th Annual Report, containing a number of papers on the ethnology of the Fox Indians, by Truman Michelson.

One of the outstanding publications of recent years is the work entitled "North American Wild Flowers", by Mary Vaux Walcott, of which Volumes I and II have appeared since the last meeting of the Board.  This work, issued by subscription as a special publication, is to consist of five volumes, each volume to contain eighty reproductions in color of wild flower paintings by Mrs. Walcott, with a page of descriptive text of each.  The volumes, in quarto size, are bound in portfolio form.
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On motion, the Secretary's report was accepted.

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