0. MISCELLANEOUS. 591 



tory of the army corps of Northern Virginia, of one thou- 

 sand pages, while General S. D. Lee has supplied his order- 

 books of the Army of Tennessee. A contract has been made 

 with Trumbull Brothers, of Baltimore, to make the Southern 

 Magazine the organ of the society, and they are to publish 

 twenty pages monthly free of cost. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 



The annual report of the Library of Congress presents a 

 gratifying picture of the growth of this great national estab- 

 lishment, an enumeration on the 1st of December, 1873, ex- 

 hibiting an aggregate of 258,752 volumes, with about 48,000 

 pamphlets. The increase during the year amounted to 12,407 

 books and 5436 pamphlets. The principal sources of sup- 

 ply were by purchase, by copyright, and by deposits from 

 the Smithsonian Institution. 



Shortly after the fire which did so much damage to the 

 Smithsonian building: an arrano-ernent was made for the trans- 

 fer of its library to that at the Capitol, and since then the 

 additions, as received, are turned over to that establishment. 



Mr. Spofford, the Librarian of Congress, calls attention to 

 the urgent need for additional accommodations for the books, 

 and hopes that measures may be initiated at the present ses- 

 sion for the construction of a building sufficiently capacious 

 to permit the proper arrangement of a million volumes. 



RECENT PUBLICATIONS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



Among the earlier subjects attracting the attention of the 

 Smithsonian Institution was the deficiency of systematic or 

 monographic treatises bearing upon the natural history of 

 the United States, and measures have been taken by it from 

 time to time to remedy this difficulty. At various intervals 

 circulars have been issued by the Institution inviting contri- 

 butions of collections of a specific character, with the assur- 

 ance that the material thus obtained would be placed in the 

 hands of eminent specialists, and that their reports would be 

 published, with suitable illustrations, and that to the account 

 of each should be added the list of the localities and donors. 

 This promise has been well realized, and it may safely be 

 said that, with comparatively few exceptions, every complete 

 monograph of any extended division of the animal kingdom 



