86 ANNUA!. KEPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1936 



and the libraries of the Astrophysical Observatory, Bureau of Ameri- 

 can Ethnology, and National Museum. Several thousand documents 

 of foreign governments were forwarded by the library, as usual, to 

 the division of documents in the Library of Congress. 



GIFTS 



Among the gifts of the year at least two were notable. They were 

 the collections — each numbering many thousands — of publications on 

 invertebrate paleontology and orthoptera gathered, respectively, dur- 

 ing a long period of service in the National Museum by Dr. E. O. 

 Ulrich and the late Dr. A. N. Caudell and presented, each with a 

 comj)lete card index, by Dr. Ulrich and Mrs. Caudell. It is gratify- 

 ing to know that these unique and valuable semiprivate libraries are 

 not to be dispersed but are to remain permanently as instrumentalities 

 of research in the sections where they have grown up. A similar col- 

 lection — or, at least part of it — namely, that of the late Dr. Walter 

 Hough on anthropology, also became the property of the library 

 during the year. Special mention should be made, too, of the gift 

 of a generous number of its own publications from the Philosophical 

 Society of Washington, to be used by the library for exchange pur- 

 poses. Other large gifts were received from the Bureau of the Inter- 

 national Catalogue of Scientific Literature, the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, the Geophysical Laboratory of the 

 Carnegie Institution, the Anthropological Society of Washington, 

 and the Washington Academy of Sciences, as well as from the estate 

 of the late Dr. W. L. Abbott and from W. P. Hay, son of the late 

 Dr. O. P. Hay. One of the most welcome gifts came from the 

 Library of Congress. It was a complete set — the fourth presented 

 to the Institution — of printed cards covering the publications of the 

 Smithsonian and its bureaus, for filing in the sectional catalogs of 

 the Museum. The smaller gifts included Contribution a I'etude des 

 Pilons Oceaniens, by His Excellency Governor L. J. Bouge, of Guade- 

 loupe, from the author; Zoologische Ergebnisse einer Reise nach 

 Bonaire, Curasao und Aruba im Jahre 1930, 3 volumes, from Dr. 

 P. W. Hummelinck; Beitrage zur Mineralogie von Japan, by T. 

 Wada, from T. Ito; Charles F. Dowd, by Charles N. Dowd, from 

 Ralph W. Lester; Japanese Works of Art, 6 volumes, selected from 

 the Mosle Collection, from Alexander G. Mosle ; Moss Flora of North 

 America North of Mexico, volume II, parts 1-3, by A. J. Grout, from 

 the author; Back to Newton, a Challenge to Einstein's Theory of 

 Relativity, by George de Bothezat, from the author ; The Microscope 

 and Its Revelations, by William B. Carpenter, Atlas der Diatoma- 

 ceen-kunde, by Adolf Schmidt, and Diatommentafeln Zusammen- 



