EEPOTiT OF THE secrp:;tary 



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volumes and 59 pamphlets. These included ihe William Wood- 

 ville liockhill collection of 1,100 volumes in Chinese, which was 

 <yiven to the Smithsonian Institution by Mrs. Rockhill and deposited 

 in the library of the p;al]erv. Thi^s valuable <^ift is described else- 

 where in this report. The library now has a total of 4,038 volumes 

 and 2,578 pamphlets. It also has a special collection of about 700 

 volumes and 500 pamphlets for the use of the field staff of the 

 gallery. 



NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK LIBRARY 



The libraiy of the National Zoological Park, which is housed 

 in the administration building at the park, consists of about 1,200 

 volumes and 300 pamphlets on animal^ and other subjects of special 

 interest to the curators there. Its accessions during the last year 

 were 11 volumes and 2 pamphlets. 



SUMMARY OF ACCESSIONS 



The accessions for the year, with the exception of those to the 

 library of the Bureau of American Ethnology, may be summarized 

 as follow^ : 



Library 



Volumes 



Astrophysical Observatory •_ 



Freer Gallery of Art 



Langley aeronautical library 



National Gallery of Art 



National Zoological Park 



Smithsonian deposit, Library of Congress 



Smithsonian office 



United States National Museum, including the technological library 



Total 



6,838 



Pamph- 

 lets and 

 charts 



16, 203 



Total 



155 



1,185 



12 



382 



13 



16,972 



142 



4,180 



23,041 



The estimated number of volumes, pamphlets, and charts in the 

 Smithsonian library, not including those in the library of the Bu- 

 reau of American Ethnology, on June -U), 1928, was as follows: 



Volumes 527, 941 



Pamphlets 150,983 



Charts 24,660 



Total 709,584 



This number does not include the many thousands of volumes in 

 the library still uncatalogued or awaiting completion, 



SPECIAL ACTIVITIES 



It was possible for the statF to undertake a number of special 

 tasks during the year, several of which may be mentioned. 



