DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS. 



633 



Suminary for report of foreign mail for the year ending June SO, 1911. 



» Shipments through the Smithsonian Institution exceeded last year by 5,637 packages, 540 pounds. 

 Packages sent abroad during fiscal year 1911. 



> The Smithsonian Institution is reimbursed from the department's contingent fund at the rate of 

 6 cents per pound. 



MECHANICAL DEVICES. 



The distribution of the enormous output of documents is greatly 

 faciUtated by the use of mechanical devices for addressing and mail- 

 ing. There were run off on the adressing machines during the 

 year ended June 30, 1911, 6,468,463 addresses. This uicludes the 

 envelopes or franks for the Monthly List, Crop Reporter, county 

 correspondent and township correspondents, and lists of the Bureau 

 of Statistics, as well as the various mailing lists of the other bureaus, 

 divisions, and offices of the department. There are now maintained 

 on the addressing system 792,035 addresses, as follows: 



Bureau of Plant Industry 31, 992 



Bureau of Animal Industry, Dairy Division 272 



Biological Survey 880 



Bureau of Chemistry 6, 759 



Bureau of Entomology 553 



Forest Service 340, 582 



Library 1 > ^^^ 



Office of Experiment Stations 16, 818 



Division of Publications 245, 581 



Odice of Public Roads 4, 253 



Bureau of Soils 533 



Bureau of Statistics 141 , 994 



Solicitor's office 282 



Total 792,035 



