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CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON. 



At the end of the fiscal year there are on hand 99,207 volumes 

 of miscellaneous pubUcations and Year Books, having a sale 

 value of $271,679.20; also 37,789 numbers of the Index Medicus, 

 having a sale value of $20,593.25. The total value of publica- 

 tions on hand is therefore $292,272.45. 



In connection with the above statement it is fitting to add 

 that since the foundation of the Institution there have been 

 distributed, chiefly by gifts to hbraries and to authors, but to a 

 noteworthy extent also by sales, a total of 190,404 volumes of 

 pubhcations of the Institution. 



t. ., T. X . The data furnished in the following table are of 



Growth and Extent , i i /> i 



of Institution's statistical interest m respect to the work of pub- 

 lication of the Institution. Four hundred and 

 one volumes, embracing a total of 111,023 pages of printed 

 matter, have thus far been issued by the Institution. 



Table showing number of volumes, number of pages {octavo and quarto), and totals of 

 pages of publications issued by the Institution for each year and for the 

 eighteen years from 1002 to 1919. 



