Report on the International 

 Exchange Service 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the following report of the activities 

 of the International Exchange Service for the fiscal year ended June 

 30, 1961 : 



The International Exchange Service was initiated by the Smith- 

 sonian Institution in the early years of its existence for the inter- 

 change of scientific publications between learned societies and 

 individuals in the United States and those of foreign countries. It 

 serves as a means of developing and executing, in part, the broad and 

 comprehensive objective of the Institution, "the diffusion of 

 knowledge." 



The Smithsonian Institution is the official United States agency for 

 the exchange with other nations of governmental, scientific, and 

 literary publications. The International Exchange Service is the 

 bureau designated to carry out the functions assigned to the Smith- 

 sonian Institution in various conventions, treaties, and international 

 agreements relating to the international exchange of publications. 



Publications were received from approximately 250 domestic sources 

 including United States Government bureaus and departments, con- 

 gressional committees and members of Congress, universities, agri- 

 cultural experiment stations, learned societies, organizations, and 

 individuals for transmission to foreign addressees in more than 100 

 foreign countries. Among the publications received for transmission 

 abroad are the following : Language, Journal of the Linguistic Society 

 of America ; Journal of the National Education Association ; Journal 

 of the American Dental Society ; Journal of Science, Iowa State Col- 

 lege ; Virginia Journal of Science, University of Virginia ; Novitates, 

 American Museum of Natural History ; Expedition, LTniversity Mu- 

 seum, University of Pennsylvania ; Brevoria, Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, Harvard College; Anthropological Record, University of 

 California ; Yale University Bulletin ; Yearbook of the Carnegie In- 

 stitution of Washington; Zoologica, New York Zoological Society; 

 Transactions of the American Geophysical Union ; Transactions of the 

 American Association of Physicians; Transactions of the American 

 Society of Mechanical Engineers; American Midland Naturalist; 

 Museum of Art Register, University of Kansas ; Paleontological Con- 

 tributions, University of Kansas ; Oregon Law Review, University of 



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