APPENDIX 7. REPORT ON THE INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE. SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report on the operations of the United States Bureau of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. Notwithstanding the fact that the war in Europe practically ceased when the armistice of November 11, 1918, was declared, international affairs are still in such a chaotic state that no reorganization of the International Catalogue has yet been possible. All of the regional bureaus are in practically the same condition as they were in 1918, and are having difficulty in obtaining suitable aid to carry on their work. These conditions also greatly hamper the work of the Central Bureau in London, which, in addition, is faced with the pressing need of greater financial assistance. The receipts of the London Central Bureau, whose sole support is derived from sales of the catalogue to the various subscribers throughout the world, have been greatly curtailed and unless subscriptions increase or the bureaus of Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Belgium, and Russia, who are in arrears to the extent of almost $9,000 per annum, again contribute their support it will be necessary to obtain assistance from some other source to finance the enterprise after the publication of the fourteenth annual issue. Since the publication of the last annual report of this bureau eight volumes of the catalogue have been published, which completes the work through the thirteenth annual issue, with the exception of one volume, that of physiology. Twelve of the 17 volumes of the fourteenth annual issue have been published. This bureau has continued to collect and classify the publications of the United States, and has now on hand a great quantity of material for the future volumes of the catalogue; indeed, in spite of war conditions, some of the sciences, notably zoology, have been indexed far in advance of the published volumes. It has been evident ever since the beginning of the war that there would have to be a general reorganization of the catalogue when international affairs become sufficiently settled to enable the various countries taking part in the enterprise to decide how much aid they can individually render in order that the ever-increasing literature of science may be made available for general reference, and then through their representatives and delegates agree with the other nations on a plan to continue this great international index to science. Methods and means were very thoroughly considered before beginning the publication of the catalogue in 1901, and the methods then decided on and the classification schedules then published were probably at that time the best means of attaining the end sought but the condition of the world and the methods and aims of scientific workers have now so changed that it is apparent that the organization and methods of the International Catalogue need revision. The Royal Society of London, which has been the principal sponsor of the catalogue since the beginning, has recently announced that after the completion of the fourteenth annual issue it will be necessary for some new financial agreement to be made in order to continue the work, and has requested the scientific academies throughout the world to offer suggestions as how best to accomplish the end in view. It may be well to here consider the need and aim of an international organization to catalogue scientific literature. Many of the greatest minds of the day are engaged in researches and investigations the results of which are finally published in some form. It is obvious that means should exist to enable other workers in the same or similar fields as well as the general reader to refer to these publications. Revolutionizing advances in many of the arts, industries, and trades are often made by means of scientific research, and what to-day appears to be an abstract investigation in pure science to-morrow becomes a stepping-stone to some epoch-making invention which either entirely changes an old or establishes a new trade or industry. This was true even before the present war, but since then cases of such revolutionary discoveries have multiplied to such an extent that it is hardly necessary to cite examples. All of the sciences have their special journals, many of which publish very complete indexes and even abstracts likely to be of interest to the specialists in various sciences, but there is no publication similar to the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, whose aim is to index and classify all of the literature of the pure sciences of the world. It has been one of the aims of the catalogue since the beginning to cooperate with the editors and publishers of other similar indexes in order to obviate duplication of labor. Cooperation of this kind has been accomplished in several cases, notably that of the Zoologica! Record, which from 1906 to 1914 was published through the cooperation of the International Catalogue and the Zoological Society of London, with the result that the combined volume was universally acknowledged to be far superior to any index of the kind ever published or, indeed, attempted. At the convention held in London in 1910 a committee was appointed and authorized to form similar combinations with the publishers of other indexes and yearbooks, but, unfortunately, for various reasons it has not yet been possible to form such combinations to the extent authorized by the convention. Very respectfully, yours, LEONARD C. GUNNELL, Dr. CHARLES D. WALCOTT, Secretary Smithsonian Institution. APPENDIX 8. REPORT ON THE PUBLICATIONS. SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report on the publications of the Smithsonian Institution and its branches during the year ending June 30, 1919: The Institution proper published during the year 10 papers in the series of Miscellaneous Collections, pamphlet copies of 2 Annual Report separates, and 1 special publication. The Bureau of American Ethnology published 5 bulletins, 1 Annual Report, and 1 advance extract from the volume. The United States National Museum issued 2 annual reports, 2 volumes of the proceedings, 48 separate papers forming parts of these and other volumes, 6 bulletins, and 20 separate parts of other bulletins. The total number of copies of publications distributed by the Institution and its branches was 161,288, which includes 404 volumes and separate memoirs of Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, 15,603 volumes and separate pamphlets of Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 13,885 volumes and separate pamphlets of Smithsonian Annual Reports, 118,332 volumes and separates of National Museum publications, 11,483 publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1,444 special publications, 10 volumes of the Annals of the Astrophysical Observatory, 69 reports of the Harriman Alaska Expedition, and 58 reports of the American Historical Association. SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS. Of the Miscellaneous Collections, volume 67, 1 paper was published; volume 68, 1 paper, title page, and table of contents; volume 69, 7 papers; volume 70, 1 paper; in all, 11 issues, as follows: VOLUME 67. No. 4. Cambrian Geology and Paleontology. IV, No. 4. Appendages of Trilobites. By Charles D. Walcott. December, 1918. 216 pp. (Publ. 2523.) VOLUME 68. Title page and table of contents. (Publ. 2526.) December 20, 1918. No. 12. Explorations and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1917. (Publ. 2492.) July 24, 1918. 134 pp. VOLUME 69. No. 2. The Mosses Collected by the Smithsonian African Expedition, 1909–10. By H. N. Dixon. October 8, 1918. 30 pp. (Publ. 2494.) No. 4. Early Mesozoic Physiography of the Southern Rocky Mountains. By Willis T. Lee. July, 1918. 50 pp. (Publ. 2497.) No. 8. Uganda Mosses Collected by R. Dümmer and others. Dixon. Oct. 21, 1918. 11 pp. (Publ. 2522.) By H. N. No. 9. The Smithsonian Eclipse Expedition of June 8, 1918. By L. B. Aldrich. March 5, 1919. 22 pp. (Publ. 2527.) No. 10. The Reflecting Power of Clouds. By L. B. Aldrich. February 10, March, 1919. 21 pp. By Casimir de No. 11. The Races of Russia. By Aleš Hrdlička. (Publ. 2532.) No. 12. Begoniaceae Centrali-Americanae et Ecuadorenses. Candolle. April 9, 1919. 10 pp. (Pub. 2533.) VOLUME 70. No. 1. A Lower Cambrian Edrioasterid (Stromatocystites walcotti). Charles Schuchert. May 8, 1919. 9 pp. (Publ. 2534.) SMITHSONIAN ANNUAL REPORTS. Report for 1917. By The general appendix of the report for 1917, which was still in press at the end of the year, contains the following papers: Projectiles Containing Explosives, by Commandant A. R. Gold and Silver Deposits in North and South America, by Waldemar Lindgren. The Composition and Structure of Meteorites Compared with that of Terrestrial Rocks, by George P. Merrill. Corals and the Formation of Coral Reefs, by Thomas Wayland Vaughan. The Correlation of the Quaternary Deposits of the British Isles with those of the Continent of Europe, by Charles E. P. Brooks. Floral Aspects of the Hawaiian Islands, by A. S. Hitchcock. Natural History of Paradise Key and the near-by Everglades of Florida, by W. E. Safford. Notes on the Early History of the Pecan in America, by Rodney H. True. The Social, Educational, and Scientific Value of Botanic Gardens, by John Merle Coulter. Bird Rookeries of the Tortugas, by Paul Bartsch. An Economic Consideration of Orthoptera directly Affecting Man, by A. N. Caudell. An Outline of the Relations of Animals to their Inland Environments, by Charles C. Adams. The National Zoological Park: A Popular Account of its Collections, by N. Hollister. Ojibway Habitations and other Structures, by David I. Bushnell, jr. The Sea as a Conservator of Wastes and a Reservoir of Food, by H. F. Moore. National Work at the British Museum-Museums and Advancement of Learning, by F. A. Bather. Leonhard Fuchs, physician and botanist, by Felix Neumann. In memoriam: Edgar Alexander Mearns, by Charles W. Richmond. William Bullock Clark. . REPORT FOR 1918. The report of the executive committee and proceedings of the Board of Regents of the Institution and report of the secretary, both |