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arates from the natural history library and sent them to the curators 

 concerned ; sorted according to subject the set of 27,200 printed cards 

 covering to date the publications of the Institution and its branches, 

 that was presented during the year by the Library of Congress, and 

 forwarded them to the sectional libraries for filing; picked out 603 

 surplus maps from the collection in the National Museum and trans- 

 ferred them to the Smithsonian deposit, Avhere they would be pre- 

 served against possible future need; prepared 300 volumes for the 

 bindery, to be sent early in July as the first installment of several 

 thousand publications to be bound with the deficiency appropriation 

 made to the Smithsonian for this purpose toward the close of the 

 fiscal year ; checked and rearranged the reference collection in the office 

 library ; continued to date the index of Smithsonian publications and 

 contributed substantially to the index of exchange relations; brought 

 nearly to completion the seven library sets of Smithsonian publica- 

 tions — a piece of work that has required years of special search for 

 missing items, many long since out of print; and finished cataloging 

 the Chinese and Japanese publications in the library of the Freer 

 Gallery of Art, as well as the field collection that had been returned 

 to the Gallery from China the year before. 



They sent back to the Superintendent of Documents a large number 

 of Government publications that either were duplicates or were not 

 pertinent to the work of the Institution ; turned over many thousands 

 of other items not in the immediate field of Smithsonian interest to 

 the libraries of the Army Medical Museum, Department of Agricul- 

 ture, Office of Education, and Geological Survey, and the Public 

 Library of the District of Columbia; assisted further the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science in its effort, begun the 

 year before and shared in at that time by the library, to complete its 

 office set of Science by presenting to the Association 448 more numbers 

 of this publication; made generous sendings of duplicates, under a 

 special exchange arrangement, to the Musee Nationale d'Histoire 

 Naturelle, Paris, the John Crerar Library, Chicago, the Marine Bio- 

 logical Laboratory, Woods Hole, and the libraries of the following 

 colleges and universities : Brown, Catholic, Columbia, Hamilton, Har- 

 vard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Vanderbilt, and Yale. From these 

 institutions, as well as from Cornell University, Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 

 were received many valuable publications, most of which, if it had 

 not been for the special exchange arrangement referred to, the library 

 would have had to buy. 



Finally, the staff was called on for even more reference and biblio- 

 graphical service than usual, not only in connection with the regular 

 interests of the Institution in science, technology, and art, but in 



