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CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON. 



Table showing Sales of Publications. 



Altho the figures in this table show some degree of fluctuation, it seems 

 safe to predict that the sales of miscellaneous publications especially will go 

 on increasing for some years before reaching a maximum amount. In the 

 meantime the reflectiv public is coming to understand that it is more rational 

 for the Institution to oflfer its publications for sale at nominal prices than to 

 attempt the unsatisfactory and wasteful task of a broadcast free distribution. 



At the end of the fiscal year just closed there are on hand 69,763 volumes 

 of miscellaneous publications and Year Books, having a sale value of $152,- 

 776.55. There are also on hand 25,287 numbers, or the equivalent of about 

 2,000 volumes, of the Index Medicus, having a sale value of $11,725.25. The 

 total value of publications now on hand is therefore $164,501.80. 



