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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



room, the lit3rary magazines are also ou file aud their use by the officers and 

 eiiiployt^s of the Institution and the Is'ational Museum is constantly increasing. 



Below is a comparative statement of the operations of the library since June 30, 

 1890: 



Number of inihltcations received. 



Volumea 



Parts of volumes 



Pamphlets 



Charts 



Total 



1890-'91. 1891-'92. 1892-'93 



2,681 



20, 525 



3,769 



319 



27, 294 



1,989 



23, 729 



3, 589 



621 



29, 928 



1,839 



22, 949 



4,449 



249 



29, 488 



It will be observed that this comparative table shows a slight decrease in the 

 number of publications received during the current year over the preceding year. 

 The decrease, however, is in volumes, and is due to the fact that the limit of the 

 possibility of comjileting series of publications by exchange, seems to have been 

 reached. 



The number of titles for the past year shows an increase of almost 2,000 over that 

 of the year preceding. 



The following table shows the number of titles received per year for the past six 

 years : 



Niimher of titles received. 



1887-88 12,105 



1888-'89 11, 370 



1889-'90 13, 474 



1890-'91 18, 409 



1891-'92 20,523 



1892-'93 22,276 



It will be seen from the above table that the number of titles received by the 

 library has almost doubled since 1887, a gratifying fact, yet one which severely 

 taxes the library force in tlie recording and arrangement of the material received. 



No fewer than 4,087 acknowledgments of publications were made by the post card 

 and other printed forms, while many gifts were acknowledged by special letter. 



Tlio following universities have sent complete sets of their academic publications, 

 Lncludiug inaugural dissertations : 



Basel, Greifswald, Louvaiu, 



Berlin, Halle, A. S., Lund, 



Beru, Heidelburg, Marburg, 



Bonn, Helsingfors, Strasburg, 



Breslau, Jena, Tiibiugeu, 



Dorpat, .Tohus Hopkins, Utrecht, 



Erlaugen, Kiel, Wurzburg, 



Freiburg, Br., Kiinigsberg, Zurich. 



Giessen, Leipzig, 



On July 1, 1892, Mr. J. Ellreth Watkius was ap])ointed Assistant in charge of the 

 library, a position which he held until the first of October. From that date until 

 December 1, Mr. N. P. Scudder was acting Librarian. 

 Very respectfully, yours, 



Cyrls Adlki;, 



Lihravi((ii. 

 Mr. S. r. Langley, 



Secretary of the Smit}tx<>)>itni I iislitiition. 



