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REPORT ON EXCHANGES. 



It has been suggested that the intervals between the receipt, by the 

 Smithsonian Institution, of packages and their delivery to the consignee 

 might perhaps be lessened by some improved method of transmission. 

 If there is ground for complaint of tardiness in the delivery, such charge 

 can certainly not be made against the exchange ofiQce, in which but 

 very small delays occur between the receipt of exchange packages and 

 their transmission. 



In order to illustrate this assertion I now beg to submit the follow- 

 ing tables of transmissions to France, Germany, Great Britain, and 

 Italy. In each case twenty invoices have been selected at random, ex- 

 tending over a period of almost three years, and their history has been 

 traced from the ledger accounts as follows : 



FRANCE. 



GERMANY. 



Bureau of Ethnology 



Dr. W. J. Hoffman . .' 



U. S. Geological Survey 



Department of the Interior 



Boston Society of Natural History 



U. S. Geological Survey ' . 



American Philo.^ophic'al Society. .. 



California Academy ' 



U. S. Geological Survey 



Sniiths.inian liijiort 1884,1 



Affa Matlifiiiiitica 



Nautical .A.liiianac 



Smithsonian Kfjtort 1884,11 



r'omptroller of the Currency...!!! 



Department of tlie Interior 



TJ. S. Geological Survey 



Smithsonian Institution, M. C. 28- 



30 



Smithsonian Institutiou 



Dr. W. J. Hoffman 



Bureau of Ethnology 



3071 

 3091 

 3147 

 3165 

 3213 

 3223 

 3237 

 3295 

 3299 

 3307 

 3309 

 3311 

 3313 

 3345 

 3383 

 3637 



3737 

 3775 

 4589 

 4651 



Dec. 



Feb. 



June 



July 



Oct. 



Feb. 



Mar. 



Apr. 



July 



Aug. 



Aug. 



Sept. 



Dec. 



Feb. 



Mar. 



May 



23, 1884 



24, 1885 

 26, 1885 



13. 1885 

 14, 1885 



9, 1886 



25. 1886 



2. 1886 

 10, 18S6 

 24, 1886 

 31,18R6 



21. 1886 

 23, 188U 



4, 1887 



14. 1887 



9. 1887 



May 19, 1887 

 June 14, 1887 

 May 13, 1887 

 June 8, 1887 



Jan. 13, 

 Mar. 18, 

 June 30, 

 July 17, 

 .Nov. 6, 

 Feb. 24, 

 Mar. 29, 

 May 3, 

 Juiv 23, 

 Aug. 25, 

 Sept. 14, 

 Oct. 15, 

 Dec. 27, 

 Feb. 25, 

 Apr. 19, 

 May 12, 



1885 

 1885 

 1885 

 1885 

 1885 

 1886 

 1886 

 1886 

 1886 

 1886 

 1886 

 1886 

 1886 

 1887 

 1887 

 1887 



May 19,1887 

 June 30, 1887 

 June 1, 1887 

 June 14, 1887 



Mar. 3, 

 Apr. 22, 

 Aug. 25, 

 ...do . 

 Dec. 10, 

 Apr. 6, 

 May 12, 

 J une 7. 

 Aug. 24, 

 Nov. 7, 

 ..do .. 

 Nov. 20, 

 Feb. IS, 

 Apr. 2, 

 May 21, 

 June 15, 



1885 1 



1885 



1885 



1885 

 1886 

 1886 

 1886 

 1886 

 1886 



1886 

 1887 

 1887 

 1887 

 1887 



June 18, 1887 

 Aug. ,3,1887 

 Jirly 5, 1887 

 July 21, 1887 



June 30, 1885 

 June 25, 1885 

 Oct. 22, 1885 

 Oct. 21,11-85 

 Feb. 5,1886 

 May 18, ]8»-6 

 July 9, 18.^6 

 July 12, li-8ti 

 Oct. 14,1886 

 Nov. 15, 18.' 6 

 Nov. 10, IS^'e 

 Jan. 29, 1887 

 Mar. 24, 1887 

 Apr. 20, 1887 

 July 7, 1887 



bo. 



Do. 



Sept. y, 1887 

 July 15, 1887 

 July 25,1887 



