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by the Bui-eau of International Exchanges connected with the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. The fifth edition of the Guide was issued during 

 the year. It has become rather bulky and it will doubtless be neces- 

 sary within at least the next two years to divide the Guide into 

 departments for the greater convenience of the public. The cost of 

 the Guide in its present form so nearly equals the price that should 

 be charged for such a publication that it does not yield the profit 

 which its sale should reasonably bring to the Museum. The Museum 

 has also issued from its own press 500 copies of a small pamphlet, 

 *' Herbarium, Field Columbian Museum." 



Library. — The library at present contains 9,003 books and 9,630 

 pamphlets, distributed as follows : 



Books. Pamphlets. 



General Library, 6,944 6,822 



Department of Geology 1,072 2,530 



Department of Ornithology, 368 



Department of Botany, including Division of 



Photography, 298 233 



Department of Anthropology, 134 45 



Department of Zoology 187 



The additions during the fiscal year were 941 books and 

 1,949 pamphlets and bulletins, making a total of 2,890 titles, 

 as against 2,213 ^^^ the preceding year. Of these 283 books 

 and 550 pamphlets were added by purchase, and 20 books and 

 9 pamphlets by exchange for duplicate material. The bulk of the 

 piircliased books and pamphlets was derived from the library of 

 the late Mr. Bebb, and came with the collection of plants bought 

 by the Museum. Unfortunately, 95 volumes and 173 pamphlets 

 were duplicates of material already contained in the library. The 

 additions by gift and exchange for Museum piiblications consequently 

 amount to 2,028 books and pamphlets. The number of periodicals 

 subscribed for is 47; the number received in exchange or as gift, 50, 

 exclusive of the publications of societies, academies, etc. A complete 

 list of the accessions to the library accompanies this report. Among 

 the gifts, special mention is made of the receipt of the second part of 

 the " Galerie Am^ricaine du Mus^e d'Ethnographie du Trocad^ro," 

 by E. T. Hamy, presented by the Due de Loubat. It is a magnifi- 

 cent representation on folio plates, with explanatory notes, of the 

 American antiquities contained in the Museum. The same donor 

 presented an interesting reproduction of the Mexican "Borgi- 

 ano " manuscript. The Royal Society of New South Wales sent 



