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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1905. 



able task, since it includes many thousand labels, blanks, blank 

 books, letter heads, etc. The total number of forms under this 

 heading was 2,790 and the total number of items 355,413. 



LIBRARY. 



The library of the National Museum now includes 24,170 bound 

 volumes and 38,643 unbound papers. The additions during the 

 year consisted of 3,573 books, 3,048 pamphlets, and 563 parts of vol- 

 umes. There were catalogued 1,952 books, 3,755 pamphlets, and 

 12,216 parts of periodicals. The number of cards added to the 

 authors' catalogue was 5,942, exclusive of 847 cards for books and 

 pamphlets recatalogued. 



Fifteen sets of periodicals in which parts were missing were com- 

 pleted wholly or in part. The total number of volumes bound was 

 1,371, and by the close of the year several hundred additional vol- 

 umes had been made ready for the bindery. 



The number of books, pamphlets, and periodicals borrowed from 

 the general library amounted to 40,400, including 9,192 which were 

 assigned to the sectional libraries. 



One sectional library, consisting of works relating to physical 

 anthropology, has been added during the year, the list of these 

 libraries being now as follows : 



Administration. 



Administrative assistant. 



Anthropology. 



Biology. 



Birds. 



Botany. 



Children's room. 



Comparative anatomy. 



Editor. 



Ethnology. 



Fishes. 



Geology. 



History. 



Insects. 



Mammals. 



Marine invertebrates. 



Materia medica. 



Mesozoic fossils. 



Mineralogy. 



Mollusks. 



Oriental archeology. 



Paleobotany. 



Parasites. 



Photography. 



Physical anthropology. 



Prehistoric archeology. 



Reptiles. 



Stratigraphic paleontolog}^. 



Superintendent. 



Taxidermy. 



Technology. 



PHOTOGRAPHY. 



In illustrating Museum objects, largely for reproduction in the 

 publications and in copying plans, diagrams, etc., required in con- 

 nection with the work of the Museum, there were made in the pho- 

 tographic laboratory during the year 1,771 negatives, 322 platinum 

 prints, 2,467 silver prints, 3,289 cyanotypes, 478 velox prints, 26 

 bromide enlargements, and 103 lantern slides. The chief photog- 

 rapher, Mr. T. W. Smillie, has also supervised most of the photo- 

 graphic work for other bureaus of the Smithsonian, as well as for 

 the parent institution, a special assistant for this purpose being 

 employed under his direction. He was detailed in October, 1904, 

 to make the official photographs of the Smithsonian exhibits at the 



