Smithsonian miscellaneous collections.

v. ill., plates (part col.) ports., maps, facsim. 24 cm. v. 1- 1862-Some vols. issued in revised editions.Vols. 45, 47, 48, 50 and 52 were published as "Quarterly issue, v. 1-5, 1903-10", designed as a medium for the early publication of the results of researches and for reports of a preliminary nature; this form of publication was discontinued after v. 52.The Series of Miscellaneous collections is intended to embrace all the publications issued directly by the Smithsonian institution in octavo form (except the Annual report) though there are occasional octavo publicatons which are not included in the series. The articles composing the volumes have separate title-pages and pagination, and are frequently pub. years before their combination into volumes