Appendix VI. 



EEPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 



Sir: I liave the lionor to present herewith tlie report of the operations of the 

 Hbrary of the Smithsonian Institution for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902. 



The number of volumes, parts of volumes, pamphlets, ami charts recorded in the 

 accession books of the Smithsonian deposit, Librai-y of Congress, during the fiscal 

 vear is shown in the following table: 



The accession numbers run from 438,893 to 445,523. 



The greater part of these publications have been .sent to the Library of Congress, 

 amounting during the past year to something over 188 boxes, 25 bags and packages, 

 which are estimated to have contained the equivalent of 8,520 octavo volumes, this 

 being a sending independent of that of the International Exchanges. 



The decrease in the numl)er of entries in the accession book and the periodical 

 record as compared with last year will l)e accounted for by the large number of 

 strictly Government documents which the Smithsonian Institution now sends direct 

 to the Library of Congress thr(jugh the Bureau of International Exchanges. This 

 arrangement has ])een carried on in accordance with the imderstanding had between 

 the Secretary and the LiVjrarian of Congress. 



The additions to the libraries of the Secretary, the Ottice, and the Astrophysical 

 Observatory number 496 volumes, pamphlets, and charts and 2,587 parts of volumes, 

 making a total of 3,083 and a grand total of 29,741. On the card catalogue of serial 

 publications about 22,234 entries were made. 



The universities at the following places have sent inaugural dissertations and 

 academic publications: 



Baltimore (Johns Hopkins). Halle a Saal. 



Basel. Heidelberg. 



Berlin. Helsnigfors. 



Bern. Jena. 



Bonn. Kazan. 



Breslau. Kiel. 



Erlangen. Konigsberg, 



Frieburg, iB, Leipzig. 



Giessen. Liege. 



Griefswald. ' J^ouvain, 



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Lund. 



Marburg. 



Mi.ssoula, Mont. 



Philadelphia. 



St. Petersburg. 



Strasburg, 



Toulouse. 



Wurzburg. 



Yunev. 



Zurich. 



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