GO UF.roirr of the secretary. 



statement of Governmental exchanges distributed during the year 1889-'90. 



AiiiiTicaii E])lioiiioris 



Army Meilii-il Musoiim 



IJotnnical Gardens 



Huroau of Eilticatiun 



Bureau of Engineers, U. S. Arnij". 



Bureau of Ethnology 



Bureau of (ho Mint 



Bureau of Statistics 



Census Bureau 



Coast Survey 



Commissionera of the District of 



Columbia 



Comptroller of the Currency 



Department of Agriculture 



Department of the Interior 



Department of Labor 



Department of State 



Entomological Commission 



Exchange! Bureau 



Fish Commission 



General Land Office 



Geological Survey 



House of Representatives 



Hydrographic Office 



Librai'y of Congress 



Light-House Board 



Marino Hospital , 



Nautical Almanac 



National Academy 



National Board of Health 



National Museum 



Navy I)ei)artment 



Naval Observatory 



Office of Indian Affairs 



Ordnance Bureau, U. S. Array.. . 



Patent Office 



Smithsonian Institution 



Smithsonian Institution (by 

 mail) 



Smithsonian Institution (re- 

 turned to Document Division) . 



Signal Office , 



Surgeon-General 



Treasury Department 



War Department 



Packages. 



Re- 

 ceived 

 for. 



1,820 

 2 



Piiblic Printer . 



18 

 276 



2 

 106 



7 

 113 



3 



5 



212 



1,795 



5.050 



22 

 74 

 136 

 11 

 17 



10. 695 



Sent 



by. 



2 



72 



31 



1,558 



2,200 



2 



811 



7 



497 



3,657 



175 



392 



4 



128 



16,494 

 27, 30O 



10. 695 43, 794 



Total GoverneDt exchanges 54, 489 



Miscellaneous exchanges 28,083 



Total exchan ges 82, 572 



Of tlio 82,.'")72 parcels recoivod by the Exchange Bureau, 69,:?56 were for foreign 

 and r.?,v!l(( i'or domestic distribution. 



While it IS thus shown that more work has been done and with less force than in 

 the preceding years, I strongly recommend that a slight increase in the othce force 

 he made in order that it may be possible to handle more rapidly the largo and con- 

 stantly increasing amount of exchange material. An additional assistant in the ship- 

 l)ing room will, I aiu confident, prevent any reasonable complaints of delays in the 

 olTice proper. Delays that occur by reason of slow ocean transportation will be ob- 

 viated when sufficient appropriation is made to pay for freight ; the delays that occur 

 in the foreign exchange bureaus or agents, except those in the paj' of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, lie of course beyond the control of the Institution. 



The foreign agents of the Institution, Dr. Felix Fliigel, Leipzig, and Messrs. 'Will- 

 iam Wesley & Son, London, have given the same careful attention to the interests of 

 the Institntinn as in former years and are etititled, as well as the immediate emi)loy^s 

 of the Hiireau, to my warmest thanks. Grateful acknowledgments are also due to 

 the following transportation companies and firms for their continued liberality in 

 granting free freight or otherwise assisting in the transmission of exchange parcels 

 and boxes, while tf> others wo are indebted for reduced rates in consideration of the 

 disinterested services of the Institution in the difl'nsiou of knowledge among men. 



