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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 875
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resolution, which was adopted:-

RESOLVED; That the income of the Institution for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, be appropriated for the service of the Institution, to be expended by the Secretary, with the advice of the Executive Committee, with full discretion on the part of the Secretary as to items.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY:-

The Secretary submitted his annual report to June 30, 1931, which had been supplied to the Regents by mail. He added a resume prepared by the Editor relating to publications, as follows:-

The Institution and its branches published during the fiscal year 1931 a total of 98 volumes and pamphlets. 44 of these were issued by the Institution proper, 49 by the National Museum, and 5 by the Bureau of American Ethnology. In the interests of the "diffusion of knowledge" 205711 copies of its publications were distributed, for the most part free, to the Institution's carefully selected lists of libraries, institutions, and individuals.

The editorial work of the Institution was reorganized during the year for the sake of greater unity of policy and increased efficiency. Instead of maintaining three separate editorial offices as formerly, the responsibility for all of the 13 series issued under the Institution was centered in the editor of the Smithsonian proper, and all of the editorial staff was moved into a group of offices close together on the third floor of this building. To show the increasing scope of the publication work, it may be said that more than $120,000 a year is now spent for actual printing, in addition to the salaries of the six persons on the editorial staff; as many as 65 publications are at times going through the press simultaneously.

Of particular interest among the publications of the Institution proper may be mentioned a paper by the Secretary entitled "Weather Dominated by Solar Changes", in which it is shown that contrary to the prevailing view, the weather appears to be governed by variations in solar radiation, and that long-continuing periodicities are found in solar variations and in temperature-departures which give promise of value for long-range weather forecasting; and a paper by Assistant Secretary Wetmore on "The Avifauna of the Pleistocene in Florida", describing recent discoveries of abundant fossil bird remains from Florida, which together with his previous studies, have convinced Dr. Wetmore that the evolution of our existing birds so far as differentiation of species is concerned, took place principally in the late Tertiary, and that only slight variation has occurred since that time. The series of Tables issued by the Institution have continued in demand, as evidenced by the necessity of reprinting the Mathematical Tables, the Meteorological Tables, and the Physical Tables. The reprint of the first has been issued, that of the second is in press, and that of the third will soon go to the printer.
 
Of the publications of the National Museum may be mentioned a bulletin on "The Birds of Haiti and the Dominican Republic", by Alexander Wetmore and Bradshaw H. Swales; and another part of the comprehensive "Monograph of the Existing Crinoids", by Austin H. Clark.

Among the Bureau of American Ethnology's publications on the American Indians may be mentioned an "Anthropological Survey in Alaska", by Ales Hrdlicka, covering his recent interesting work in that region, and two bulletins