22 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



CO-OPERATIVE RELATIONS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



Duplicate Collection of Building Stones for the American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History, New York. — Amoug the various important subjects of in- 

 quiry on the part of the census organization of 1880, was one into the 

 statistics of the quarries in the United States used to furnish building 

 stones for building and ornamental purposes, and an arrangement was 

 made by General Walker with Dr. G. W. Hawes, curator of mineralogy 

 and lithology of the National Museum, to collect the necessary material, 

 and to prepare a complete report on the subject, this to be done at the 

 expense of the United States. General Walker also authorized an ar- 

 rangement by which, on payment of all the costs, Mr. Morris K. Jesup 

 was to have a duplicate collection, with a view to its presentation to the 

 American Museum of Natural History. Estimating the cost of acquisi- 

 tion of the specimens and their preparation, including a microscopical 

 section of each specimen, at $3.50 ea'ch, and the number of specimens 

 to be treated at one thousand, the sum of $3,500 was placed at the com- 

 mand of Dr. Hawes for the purpose in question. The work upon this 

 series was prosecuted with much vigor until interrupted by the death 

 of Dr. Hawes. During the present year however, the work was re- 

 newed, and the necessary means being furnished by Mr. Jesup, extra 

 workmen were employed upon his collection, which will probably be 

 ready for delivery in the course of the year 1885. By thus duplicat- 

 ing the collection without expense to the Smithsonian Institution or 

 the National Museum, the opportunity of study and comparison will be, 

 of course, greatly extended. 



Bureau of Education. — In accordance with the general policy of the 

 Institution to do nothing with its funds which can equally well be done . 

 by other means, and to co-operate with other bureaus and departments 

 of the Government, the Institution turned over to the Commissioner of 

 Education 3,326 catalogues, announcements and reports of colleges and 

 educational institutions, together with 401 letters, and 1,978 card-slips, 

 containing an alphabetical list of the entire series. 



The Diplomatic Review. — In March, 1883, the conductors of "The 

 Diplomatic Review" of England sent to the Smithsonian Institution an 

 offer of the Eeview to any library that would undertake to bind it. 



By some strange mishap the letter containing this very liberal offer 

 went astray, and no attention was paid to it. In October, 1884, the 

 offer was renewed by Mr. O. D. Collet, the letter being accompanied by 

 a list of libraries to which the Review had been sent direct. This letter 

 was the initiatory step of a correspondence, which will eventually result 

 in the distribution of several hundred sets of the Diplomatic Review, as 

 full as the conductors thereof can furnish. 



The Diplomatic Review commenced in 1855, and carried on to the end 

 of 1865, under the title of the Free Press, is a continuation of the first 



