30 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



The expense of boxing, packing, transporting, and paying of agents 

 in connection with the transmission of these sets of Government docu- 

 ments, amounting to $857.50, was advanced by the Institution, with the 

 expectation that it would be repaid from an appropriation for the 

 Library of Congress; but when the account was presented we were in- 

 formed that, in consequence cf the reduction of the appropriations at 

 the last session of Congress, there were no funds available for the pur- 

 pose. We have, therefore, requested the Library Committee of Congress 

 to procure the insertion of an item in the deficiency bill to reimburse 

 the Institution for the amount advanced, and also to defray the cost of 

 the necessary expenses of the system of exchange for the ensuing six 

 months. 



LIBRARY. 



The library of the Institution, as has been stated in previous reports, 

 Ws been placed on deposit in the Library of Congress under the direction 

 of Mr. A. E. Spofford, librarian. 



The following is a statement of the books, maps and charts received 

 by the Smithsonian Institution in 187G and transferred to the Capitol: 



Volumes: 



Octavo, or less 756 



Quarto, or larger 201 



1,017 



Parts of volumes: 



Octavo, or less 2,047 



Quarto, or larger 2, 268 



4,:; 15 



Pamphlets: 



Octavo, or less 1, 530 



Quarto, or larger . 348 



1, 878 



Maps and charts 375 



Total 7, 585 



The articles received at the Institution are recorded in a book pre- 

 pared for that purpose and afterwards transferred to' the Library of 

 Congress. Much use is made of the books of the Institution which are 

 in the Library of Congress as well as those of the latter library by the 

 collaborators of the Institution. 



Among the principal donations received in 1876 are the following: 

 Prom the director-general of the Eoyal Collections of Art and Sci- 

 ence, Dresden : " Monumente des Mittelalters und tier Renaissance aus 

 dem siichsischen Erzgebirge, die Klosterkirche Zchillen, jetzt Wechsel- 

 burg und die Eochlitzer Kunigundeu-Kirche. 50 Blatt gross folio, 

 photographische Aufnahmen und Schnellpressen Lichtdruck von Eomm- 

 ler & Jonas, Dresden, unter artistischer Leituug von Carl Antlreae." 



