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This last series comprises, among many others, the following valuable 

 publications : 

 Patent Office : 



Official Gazette — thirty-two volumes published. 



Specifications and Drawings — two hundred volumes published 



since 1872. 

 Growth of Industrial Art — two volumes, folio. Of this only fifty 

 copies were printed. 

 TJ. 8. Geological Survey : 



Bulletins — thirty numbers issued. 



Monographs — eleven volumes issued, of which only Vol. ii and At- 

 las were received, 

 A letter was addressed to the Director of the Survey, February 18, 

 1884, claiming fifty copies of all the publications of that office for ex- 

 change purposes under the law. In reply the Director states, Febru- 

 ary 26, 1884 : 



Under the law of March 2, 1867, fifty copies of everything published 

 by us should be sent to the Library of Congress, and thence to the 

 Smithsonian Institution by the Public Printer, and such copies are re- 

 served for' that purpose, and do not come into oar possession. 



Under the statutes relating to the publication of the monographs of 

 the Geological Survey it would be impossible to spare any copies from 

 the three thousand received by this office from the fact that it is neces- 

 ary for the Survey to render an account of its publications, either as 

 sold, exchanged, or on hand. 



Ethnological Bureau : 



Contributions to North American Ethnology. Only vols. 1, 3, and 

 4 received. 



Pilling : Proof-sheets of North American Languages. Of this only 

 one hundred copies were printed. 

 Tenth Census of the United States : 



Monographs. Not one has been received. 

 Fish Commission: 



Bulletins, vols. 1-5. 

 State Department: 



Consular Reports. Only the first twenty-two have been received. 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey: 



Publications. 

 American and Foreign Claims Commissions: 



France, Hayti, Spain, Alabama, etc., neither of which has been re- 

 ceived. 



And, in fact, all the publications of the Departments and Bureaus of 

 the Government, as independent series, although they may have been 

 furnished as Congressional (miscellaneous) documents, which, however, 

 constitute a distinct series (I) in themselves. 



