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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



room, the literary magazines are also on rile and their use by the officers and 

 employes of the Institution and the National Museum is constantly increasing. 



Below is a comparative statement of the operations of the library since June 30, 

 L890: 



Number of publications received. 



Volumes 



Tarts of volumes . 



Pamphlets 



Charts 



Total 



2, 681 



20, 525 



3,769 



319 



27, 294 



1891-'92. 1892-'93 



1,989 



23, 729 



3, 589 



621 



1,839 



22, 949 



4,449 



249 



29, 488 



It will be observed that this comparative table shows a slight decrease in the 

 number of publications received during the current year over the preceding year. 

 The decrease, however, is in volumes, and is due to the fact that the limit of the 

 possibility of completing series of publications by exchange, seems to have been 

 reached. 



The number of titles for the past year shows an increase of almost 2,000 over that 

 of the year preceding. 



The following table shows the number of titles received per year for the past six 

 years : 



Number of titles received. 



1887-88 12, 105 



1888-'89 _ . _ _ 11, 370 



1889-'90 13, 474 



1890-'91 18, 409 



1891-'92 20, 523 



1892-'93 22. 276 



It will be seen from the above table that the number of titles received by the 

 library has almost doubled siuce 1887, a gratifying fact, yet one which severely 

 taxes the library force in the recording and arrangement of the material received. 



No fewer than 4,087 acknowledgments of publications were made by the post card 

 and other printed forms, while many gifts were acknowledged by special letter. 



The following universities have sent complete sets of their academic publications, 

 including inaugural dissertations: 



Basel, Greifswald, Louvain. 



Berlin, Halle, A. S., Lund, 



Bern, Heidelburg, Marburg, 



Bonn, Helsingfors, Strasburg, 



Breslau, Jena, Tubingen, 



Dorpat, Johns Hopkins, Utrecht. 



Erlangen, Kiel, Wurzburg, 



Freiburg, Hi., Konigsberg, Zurich. 



Giessen, Leipzig. 



On July 1, 1892, Mr. J. Elfreth Watkins was appointed Assistant in charge of the 



library, a position which he held until the first of October. From that date until 



December I, Mr. \. P. Scudder was acting Librarian. 



Very respectfully, yours, 



Cyrus Adlek, 



Librarian. 

 Mr. S. P. Langley, 



Secretary of Die Smithsonian Institution. 



