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Congress, under whose direction it is arranged and catalogued as a 

 part of tlie Library of the Government. 



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

 in 1875 : 



Volumes: 



Octavo, or less 810 



Quarto, or larger 301 



1, 120 



Parts of volumes : 



Octavo, or less 2, 139 



Quarto, or larger 1, 877 



4, 016 



Pamphlets : 



Octavo, or less ^ 1, 524 



Quarto, or larger 273 



1, 797 



Maps and charts 114 



Total receipts 7, 047 



These articles are entered as they are received at the Institution in a 

 large record-book, and afterward transferred to the Library of Congress. 

 The number received in 1875 was considerably larger than that in the 

 preceding year. 



During the past year much use has been 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. The value of the 

 library will, however, be enhanced when the new edition of the catalogue 

 of transactions of learned societies has been published, the old edition 

 having been deficient in the names of the works received since the date 

 at which it was issued. 



The following are some of the more valuable works received in 1875: 



From the Ministry of War, St. Petersburg: Artillery Journal, 1868- 

 1874,37 parts; Engineering Journal, 1868-1873, 27 parts; Ordnance 

 Magazine, 1868-1874, 14 parts. 



From His Elighness the Maharajah of Travancose, Trevandrum : Ob- 

 servations of Magnetic Declination, made at the Trevandrum and 

 Augustia Observatories in the years 1852 to 1869. Tol. I. London, 

 1874. 4to. 



From the British government : Fac-similes of National Manuscripts 

 of Ireland, selected and edited under the direction of the Right Hon. 

 Edward Sullivan, Master of the Ilolls in Ireland, by J. T. Gilbert, Sec- 

 retary of the Public Record Office of Ireland, and photoziucographed 

 by command of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, by Major-General Sir Henry 

 James. Part I. Dublin, 1874. Folio. 



From the University of Chili, Santiago: Anales 1872,1873. Govern- 

 ment Documents, 12 volumes and six i)arts. Topographical and Geolog- 

 ical Chart of Chili, in 13 parts. 



