224 REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



the latter including a valuable collection of Italian marbles, collected 

 by Hon. William T. Rice, United States consul at Leghorn, Italy. 



No additions to the collection have been made by persons in the em- 

 ploy of the Smithsonian Institution, but 454 specimens have been re- 

 ceived from other departments of the Government, chiefly from special 

 agents in the employ of the Tenth Census, 



The accessions of greatest interest during the year have been the 

 collection of building stone collected under the auspices of the Tenth 

 •Census, and the marbles from Italy already mentioned. Besides these 

 xire six sami^les of granite from the works of McDonald, Field & Co., 

 Aberdeen, Scotland, a polished slab 35 by 35 by 2^ inches of gray 

 granite from Henry Barker & Son, Quincy, Mass. ; ten blocks, each 1 

 foot square and 2 inches thick, representing the different styles of cut- 

 ting and polishing, from the Vermont Marble Comi^any, Sutherland 

 Falls, Yt. ; and similar blocks of sandstone and gTanite from the Mc- 

 Dermot and Berea Stone Company, Cleveland, Ohio, and H. Barker & 

 .Sons, Quincy,- Mass., respectiv^ely. 



Department of Library . 

 Frederick W, True, Librarian. 



Accessions in 1882. — -The establishment of the library being a com- 

 paratively recent event, the scientific world is as yet scarcely aware of 

 its existence. Its nucleus consists of the books presented by the Di- 

 rector of the Museum from his private collection, ^y far the greater 

 portion of the remainder are deposited by the Smithsonian Institution. 

 For the rest, the library is indebted to our National and State Govern- 

 ments and to a number of scientific men and institutions in various 

 parts of the world. 



The distribution of the Museum publications has not directly aided 

 in building up the library to any considerable degree. It has, however, 

 undoubtedly tended to increase the mass of literary matter received hy 

 the Smithsonian Institution, which is practically the desii^ed result. 



Less than twenty volumes have been purchased with Museum funds 

 during the year; our resources in this direction being insignificant. 



Messrs. B. Westermann & Co., prominent importers in New York, have 

 kindly sent to the library from time to time copies of newly imported 

 books for inspection, with a view to purchase. About seventeen vol- 

 umes have been bought hj the Institution for the Museum during the 

 year. 



The various bureaus of the National Government, particularly those 

 engaged in scientific research, have shown much liberality. I should 

 especially notice the Geological Survey, which has supplied copies of 

 all its publications as fast as issued. 



Mr. G, Brown Goode has permitted to be made a catalogue of his 

 private collection of ichthyological and other works to be kept in the 



