84 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 19 3 6 



Alexander Graham Bell, Octave Clianute, and James Means, and 

 that since 1930, under its own name and book plate, has supplemented 

 the Government collection on aeronautics in the Library of Con- 

 gress; the Smithsonian office library, made up of general reference 

 works, publications of the Institution and its branches as well as of 

 various foreign learned societies and institutions, and a large num- 

 ber of popular books and magazines; the radiation and organisms 

 library, pertaining to the studies the Institution is making of the 

 influence of the sun on plant and animal life; and the library of the 

 National Zoological Park, on animals and their care. In the libraries 

 taken together there are about 860,000 volumes, pamphlets, and 

 charts. This total does not include thousands of volumes awaiting 

 completion, binding, and cataloging. 



PERSONNEL 



Four changes took place in the permanent staff during the year. 



Miss Ella Leary, after a long service as librarian of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, retired, and Miss Miriam B. Ketchum was 

 transferred to the vacancy from the library of the Weather Bureau. 

 Miss Ketchum received the B. A. and M. A. degrees from George 

 Washington University, where two of her special interests were li- 

 brary science and anthropology. Before her appointment to the 

 Weather Bureau in 1934 she served for some years on the library staff 

 of the Naval Observatory. 



Mrs. Grace A. Parler, who since 1930 had been in immediate charge 

 of the library of the Freer Gallery of Art, resigned. She was suc- 

 ceeded by Miss Alice Elizabeth Hill, who had taken the B. A. degree 

 at American University, studied library science in George Washing- 

 ton University, and obtained considerable experience at various times 

 as a temporary employee of the Smithsonian library. 



Miss Ruth E. Blanchard, a graduate in library science of the Uni- 

 versity of Oklahoma and for several years a member of the library 

 staff of the university, was appointed to the position of minor library 

 assistant in the Astrophysical Observatory, under an arrangement, 

 however, by which part of her salary is paid by the National Zoologi- 

 cal Park and part of her time given to its library. 



Stephen Stuntz, who for 6 years had been assistant messenger, was 

 promoted to a post elsewhere in the Institution, and the vacancy was 

 filled by the selection of Carroll McKinley Martin. 



The temporary assistants were Miss Margaret Link, Miss Helen 

 Rankin, Miss Wilda Suter, and Mrs, Emma B. Thomsen. A number 

 of workers under the F. E, R. A. were also assigned to the library for 

 a time early in the year and toward its close several under the 

 W. P. A. 



