Appendix VI. 



REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 



Sir: I liave the honor to present the following report on the operations of the 

 lilirary of tlie Smithsonian Institution for the fist-al year ending June 80, 1904. 



The number of publications received and recorded in the accession books of the 

 Smithsonian deposit, Library of Congress, is as follows: 



The accession numbers run from 452466-460376. 



A few of these publications have been temjjonirily held at the Institution for the use 

 of the staff, lint the larger number have been sent direct to the Ivibrary of Congress. 



Al)out 355 boxes and 18 packages were used in transmitting the sendings to the 

 Library of Congress, and they are estimated to have amounted to the ecjuivalent of 

 14,920 octavo volumes. This does not include a large number of public documents 

 presented to the Institution and transmitted without being recorded. 



The selecting and sending to the Library of Congress of volumes and parts of vol- 

 umes belonging to the Smithsonian deposit which had been held at the Institution 

 and Museum in the past has been carried on in connection with the other wMjrk of 

 the lil)rary, and while a large number have been sent up there still remain from 

 last year many volumes ready for checking on the accession books. No separate 

 count has been kept of these sendings, and they are included in the above estimate. 



The libraries of the Secretary, (3fRce, and Astrophysical Observatory have received 

 during the year 337 volumes, pamphlets and charts, and 2,048 parts of vjlumes, 

 making a total of 2,385, and a grand total, including books for the Smithsonian 

 depo.'^it, of 26,353. 



The parts of serial publications that were entered on the card catalogue junnbered 

 24,126. Six thousand slips for completed volumes were made, and about 510 cards 

 for new j)eriodicals and ainiuals were added to the permanent record from the 

 periodical-recording desk. 



Inaugural dissertations and academic pul)lications were received frf)m universities 

 at the following places: 



Halle. 



Heidelberg. 



Helsingfors. 



Ithaca (Cornell). 



Jena. 



Kiel. 



Konigsberg. 



Lafayette (Purdue). 



Leipsic. 



Louvain. 



Marburg. 



New York (Columbia) 



Baltimore (Johns Hop- 

 kins). 

 Basel. 

 Berlin. 

 Bern. 

 Bonn. 

 Breslau. 

 Erlangen. 

 Freiburg. 

 Giessen. 

 Geneva. 

 Greifswald. . 



Paris. 



Philadelphia (University 



of Pennsylvania). 

 Rostock. 

 St. Petersburg. 

 Toulouse. 

 Tubingen. 

 Utrecht. 

 Wurzburg. 

 Zurich. 



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