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ANNUAL, REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1920. 



best to let the matter rest until requests for the missing publications 

 are received from the addressees. 



During the year 2,3;'>9 boxes were used in forwarding exchanges 

 to foreign agencies for distribution, being an increase of 1,556 over 

 the number for the preceding 12 months. While this is a very large 

 increase, the total number of boxes represents about the quantity 

 used during a normal year. 



Of the total number of boxes forwarded, 342 contained full sets 

 of United States official documents for authorized depositories and 

 2,017 included departmental and other publications for depositories 

 of partial sets and for miscellaneous correspondents. 



The number of boxes sent to each foreign country is given in the 

 following table : 



Consignments of exchanges for foreign countries. 



Country. 



Argentina , 



Belgium 



Bolivia 



Brazil 



British colonies 



British Guiana 



Canada 



Chile 



China 



Colombia 



Costa Rica 



Cuba 



Denmark 



Dutch Guiana 



Ecuador 



Egypt 



Finland 



France 



Great Britain and Ireland 



Greece 



Guatemala 



Haiti 



Honduras 



Hungary 



India 



Italy 



Number 

 of boxes. 



50 



239 



8 



39 



9 



2 



24 



27 



35 



23 



16 



6 



54 



2 



12 



12 



10 



253 



4S1 



24 



6 



8 



4 



75 



59 



110 



Country. 



Jamaica 



Japan 



Korea 



Mexico 



Netherlands 



New South Wales 



New Zealand 



Nicaragua 



Norway 



Paraguay 



Peru 



Portugal 



Queensland 



Salvador 



Siarn 



Spain 



Sweden 



Switzerland 



Tasmania 



South Australia 



Trinidad 



Union of South Africa 



Uruguay 



Venezuela 



Victoria 



Western Australia. . . 



Number 

 of boxes. 



5 

 95 



2 



6 

 64 

 47 

 48 



5 

 40 



1 

 16 

 26 

 21 



7 



4 

 44 

 S7 

 57 

 11 

 31 



1 

 39 

 21 

 17 

 66 

 10 



FOREIGN DEPOSITORIES OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENTAL- 



DOCUMENTS. 



In accordance with treaty stipulations and under the authority of 

 the congressional resolutions of March 2, 1867, and March 2, 1901, 

 setting apart a certain number of documents for exchange with for- 



