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of America and the Devonic Coral Subprovinces of Russia, with two 

 Paleographic Maps, by Charles Schuchert (published in the American 

 Geologist); A New Land Shell from California, b.y Paul Bartsch (pub- 

 lished in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington). 



LIBRARY. 



The assignment to the library of two of the galleries erected last 

 year, one in the west-north, the other in the north-west range, has 

 added a considerable amount of space, which has long been needed. 

 This area has been fitted up with convenient stacks, permitting a gen- 

 eral overhauling and a more systematic rearrangement of the books 

 and pamphlets. During the latter part of the summer of 1902 the 

 library was closed for a time to enable this work to be carried out. 

 Its contents were classified and a large number of volumes belonging 

 to the Smithsonian deposit were turned over to the Institution for 

 transmission to the Library of Congress. 



The increase of the library has been mainly due to two very impor- 

 tant gifts — the Hubbard and Schwarz and the Dall collections. The 

 former, consisting of 300 books and 1,500 pamphlets, was brought 

 together by Mr. H. G. Hubbard and Mr. E. A. Schwarz (Custodian 

 of Coleoptera in the Museum), while carrying on their studies more 

 or less conjointly, and forms an accessory to their large collection of 

 insects, presented by them to the Museum several years ago. It is 

 an entomological library, having reference mainly to the American 

 Coleoptera. The contribution by Dr. "William H. Dall, Honorary 

 Curator of Mollusks, comprises about 1,600 bound volumes and about 

 2,000 pamphlets on the mollusca, a special library of great value, which 

 has been accumulated by Dr. Dall during many years of research. It 

 is accompanied by a card catalogue covering the literature of Con- 

 chology, both recent and fossil, down to about 1860, though materially 

 added to since then. 



The above collections and also the Goode library, purchased in 1898, 

 have been provided with book-plates. 



The Museum library now possesses 19,161 bound volumes, and 

 32,063 unbound pamphlets, periodicals, etc. The cataloguing done 

 during the year comprised 916 books, 1,571 pamphlets, and 9,838 parts 

 of periodicals, and 3,316 cards were added to the authors.' catalogue. 



The number of books, pamphlets and periodicals borrowed from the 

 general library was 18,750, while the nuinber assigned to the sectional 

 libraries was 4,833. There has been no change in the sectional libra- 

 ries, which are as follows: . 



Administration. 

 Administrative assistant 

 Anthropology. 

 Biology. 



Birds. 

 Botany. 



Children's room. 

 Comparative anatomy. 



