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[[preprinted]] SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 645 [[/preprinted]] [[preprinted in left margin]] MADE BY BAKER-VAWTER CO. [[/preprinted in left margin]] "diffusion of knowledge among men". The publications are distributed, for the most part, free, to libraries, scientific and educational institutions, and interested individuals throughout the world. A few published by the funds of the Institution are sold. Many of the Smithsonian publications have become standard reference works, and a number of these, of which the editions have been exhausted, have been reprinted several times to meet the demand. Especially is this true of the series of Smithsonian Tables, namely: Physical Tables, Meteorological Tables, Geographical Tables, Mathematical Tables - Hyperbolic Functions, and Smithsonian Mathematical Formulae and Tables of Elliptic Functions. The most widely used of these, the Smithsonian Physical Tables, is now in the second reprint of the Seventh Revised Edition. A reprint of the Fourth Revised Edition of the Meteorological Tables and a third reprint of the Mathematical Tables - Hyperbolic Functions have recently been received from the press. The Smithsonian Annual Report continues to attract widespread popular interest. As stated at previous meetings, these Annual Reports have been issued two years late since they were allowed to fall so far behind during the rush of printing at the Government Printing Office during the World War. It is encouraging to note that for the current fiscal year, Congress allowed the Institution an additional amount for the purpose of bringing these Reports out more nearly on time, and at the present time the Report for 1923 is ready for paging and all the galleys of the Report for 1924 have been received from the printer. Among the papers published during the year by the Institution proper may be mentioned three papers by your Secretary in the series on Cambrian Geology and Paleontology; an interesting paper entitled "Adaptations to Social Life - The Termites", by Thomas E. Snyder; and a paper by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes describing his archeological explorations of last winter at Weeden Island, [[initialed]]CDW[[/initialed]]
