102 



REPORT ON THE OPERATIONS OF EXCHANGES. 



Year. 



1860 



1861 



1862 



1863 



18^4 



1865 



1866 



1867 



1868 



1869 



1870 



1871 



1872 



1873 



1874 



1875 



1876 



1877 



1878 



1879 



1880. 



1881 



1882 



Total 



Received for the Smithsonian Library. 



Volumes. 



271 

 831 

 611 

 910 

 823 

 7(57 

 243 

 557 

 770 

 234 

 113 

 936 

 262 

 889 

 8(53 

 120 

 017 

 889 

 263 

 94;) 

 143 

 867 

 296 



38, 173 



Parts and 

 pamph- 

 lets. 



4,180 

 1,945 

 3, 309 

 3,479 

 2,754 

 3, 256 

 4, 509 

 3,946 

 3, 605 

 4,089 

 3,890 

 3,579 

 4,502 

 4,354 

 4,521 

 5,813 

 6, 193 

 6,511 

 7,392 

 8,071 

 7, 275 

 9,904 

 10, 341 



132, 128 



Maps and 



eugrav- 

 iuffs. 



220 

 120 



55 

 200 

 109 

 183 

 121 

 328 

 134 

 232 

 179 



82 

 198 

 454 

 162 

 114 

 375 

 326 



74 

 183 

 152 

 188 

 152 



7,119 



Total. 



For institutions and 

 individuals in the 

 United Slates and 

 British Amefica. 



Addresses. 



5, 671 



2,886 

 5, 035 

 4,589 

 3, 6815 

 4,206 

 5, 873 

 5,831 

 5, .509 

 5, .555 

 5, 182 

 4,597 

 5, 962 

 5,697 

 5, 546 

 7,047 

 7,585 

 8,726 

 8,729 

 10, 203 

 8,570 

 11,959 

 11,789 



177, 420 



335 



274 

 273 

 273 

 299 

 345 

 329 

 347 

 436 

 501 

 567 

 573 

 587 

 6~9 

 750 

 610 

 644 

 768 

 662 

 785 

 945 

 ,0.54 

 947 



Packages. 



1,908 

 1,406 

 2,111 



1,522 

 2,482 

 2, 368 

 2,703 

 971 



2, 304 

 4, 130 



3, 705 

 3, 952 



4, 635 

 4,782 

 4, 326 

 4, 661 

 4, 853 

 4,962 

 5, 292 

 6,971 

 5,5«7 

 8, 433 

 8,359 



14,233 



103, 124 



3. Government transmissions. 



On the 2d day of March, 1SG7, the following resolution was passed 

 by Congress, to provide for the exchange of certain public documents : 



^''Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 

 States in Congress assembled, That fifty copies of all documents liereafter 

 printed by order of either house of Congress, and fifty copies additional 

 of all documents printed in excess of the usual number, together with 

 fifty copies of each publication issued by any Department or Bureau of 

 the Government, be placed at the disposal of the Joint Committee on 

 the Library, who shall exchange the same, through the agency of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, for such works published in foreign countries, 

 and especially by foreign Governments, as may be deemed by said com- 

 mittee an equivalent, said works to be deposited in the Library of Con- 

 gress." 



A primary object of this movement was to secure as regularly and 

 economically as possible all reports and other documents relative to the 

 legislation, jurisprudence, statistics, internal economy, technology, &c., 

 of all nations, so as to place the material at the command of the com- 

 mittees and members of Congress, heads of Bureaus, &c. 



