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Visitors to the Museum during the year totaled 1,413,386 persons, 

 an increase of more than 260,000 over the previous year, an excellent 

 index to the number of Americans who come to visit the National 

 Capital. Attendance in the several buildings was recorded as fol- 

 lows: Smithsonian, 175,190; Arts and Industries, 517,238; Natural 

 History, 618,773; Aircraft, 102,185. 



The average daily attendance for week days was 3,901 and for 

 Sundays 3,761. The public has shown great appreciation of the 

 privilege of entrance to our exhibits on Sunday afternoons. 



During the year the Museum published 10 volumes and 59 sepa- 

 rate papers, while the distribution of literature amounted to 111,405 

 copies of its various books and pamphlets. 



Additions to the Museum library have included 3,015 volumes 

 and 1,165 pamphlets, obtained partly by exchange and partly by 

 donation. The library of the National Museum, as separate from 

 that of the Smithsonian Institution proper, has now 72,315 volumes 

 and 106,881 pamphlets. Though most of the accessions for the 

 present year, as usual, came through an exchange of publications, 

 there may be noted the donation of 595 volumes and many additional 

 separate papers from the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, among them many works now out of print and very rare, 

 which have served to complete a number of important sets on our 

 shelves. Mr. William K. Vanderbilt presented a copy of his pri- 

 vately printed work entitled " To Galapagos on the /Ire/." Mr. 

 Thomas A. McCaslin presented a bound manuscript entitled "A 

 Souvenir of Wyoming," including a diary of a trip in Jackson Hole 

 and Yellowstone Park, with many remarks on early history and his- 

 torical geography. The Librarian of Congress transferred 68 vol- 

 umes and 47 parts to supplement our reference works, and about 

 300 volumes, chiefly on the religions of the Old World, were received 

 from the estate of Dr. I. M. Casanowicz, late assistant curator of the 

 division of Old World archeology. During the year the library 

 staff completed the sorting of a large accumulation of reprints, which 

 were placed in the hands of the curators to whose work they were 

 most related. A number of special collections of books, including 

 the Casey, Dall, Gill, Henderson, Lacoe, Roebling, Schaus, Springer, 

 and Teller libraries were listed in preparation for cataloguing. 



Dr. Samuel W. Woodhouse, for some time associated with the 

 Institution in connection with the art collections presented to the 

 National Gallery of Art by the late Alfred Duane Pell, was given 

 honorary appointment as collaborator in ceramics. Mr. Robert A. 

 Cushman, of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department 

 of Agriculture, was made assistant custodian of hymenoptera. Mr. 

 Arthur Cleveland Bent, of Taunton, Mass., well known for his com- 

 prehensive volumes on the life histories of North American birds. 



