EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1910. 67 



Besides the regular editorial work, there is a large amount of mis- 

 cellaneous printing and binding, with all of which the editor's office is 

 also charged. The principal item is prol^abW the furnishing of labels 

 for both the exhibition and reserve collections. 



LIBRARY. 



The library of the Museum contains 38,300 volumes and 61,858 

 unbound papers, the additions during the year having consisted of 

 2,056 books, 5,541 pamplilets, and 307 parts of volumes. With 

 an annual appropriation of but $2,000, which constitutes the only 

 fund for purchasing, it is wholly impossible to maintain the library 

 on the basis required for the study and classification of the collec- 

 tions. In fact, except for the increment tlii"ough exchanges and 

 donations, the working benefits of the library would be very inad- 

 equate, and this in spite of the fact that the Library of Congress 

 and several Department libraries are fi'eely placed at the service 

 of the Museum. Among Museum officers and associates who made 

 important gifts to the library durmg the year were Dr. Theodore N. 

 Gill, Dr. Charles A. White,' Dr. Charles W. Richmond, Mr. E. A. 

 Schwarz, Dr. O. P. Hay, and Dr. Marcus Benjamm. 



In common with all other branches of the Museum, the limited 

 quarters assigned to the library have become more and more con- 

 gested each year, interfering with the continued systematic arrange- 

 ment of the publications, and causing inconvenience m cataloguing 

 and other parts of the work. For this condition a remedy will be 

 found during the coming year, in the more ample space wliich it 

 will be possible to allot to this subject. Good progress was made 

 in the cataloguing of pubhcations, and volumes to the number of 

 435 were prepared and sent to the Government Printmg Office for 

 binding. Each of the divisions and principal offices of the Museum 

 has a sectional library, consisting of the works pertaining specially 

 to its province, and these are supervised by the central library, in 

 which they are recorded the same as is the main body of pubfications. 

 There are 29 of these sectional libraries. 



PHOTOGRAPHY. 



The alterations mentioned in the last report as necessary to place 

 the photographic laboratory m a condition to meet the increased 

 work and to generally improve its facilities were commenced at the 

 beginnuig of the year and completed duruig the summer. They 

 included a new skylight, new side lights for use with the photo- 

 microscope, and an extension over the adjoining lower roof for 

 blue printing. For the purposes of a museum this laboratory is 

 probably not surpassed in the country as regards both its general 

 arrangements and its equipment. 



