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came from Mrs. Eugene Meyer and was a welcome addition to the 

 library of the Freer Gallery of Art. Another important gift was 

 a set of 40 publications on the history, life, and culture of Siam, from 

 the Department of Fine Arts, Bangkok. Still others were 1,294 scien- 

 tific journals from Dr. J. R. Swanton, 879 from Henry Otten, 85 vol- 

 umes of the Engineering News and Engineering News-Record from 

 John W. Berry, 20 or more volumes of The Osteopathic Physician 

 from Dr. O. R. Meredith, a generous number of publications from the 

 Public Library of the District of Columbia, 210 from the American 

 Association of Museums, and 790 from the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science. There were large gifts, too, from Mrs. 

 Charles D. Walcott and from Secretary Abbot and Assistant Secretary 

 Wetmore, as well as many smaller ones from other members and asso- 

 ciates of the Smithsonian staff. 



The gifts also included the following : La Parasitologia en Venezu- 

 ela y Los Trabajos del Dr. M. Nuiiez Tovar, by Dr. Diego Carbonell, 

 from the Honorable Eleazar Lopez Contreras, President of Venezu- 

 ela; A Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings in the Collection of 

 Frederick John Nettlefold, Volume IV — the concluding volume of 

 this notable work — ^by C. Reginald Grundy and F. Gordon Roe, from 

 Frederick Jolin Nettlefold; The Zoology of the Voyage of H. M. S. 

 Challenger^ Part LXVIII, Report on the Seals, by Sir William Tur- 

 ner, from Professor James C. Brash ; Prehistoria e Historia Antigua 

 de Guatemala, by J. Antonio Villacorta C, from the author ; Kokat- 

 sujiban no Kenkyu (2 copies), in 2 volumes, by Kawase Kazuma, 

 from Yasuda Bunko ; Y Mathiaid — The Mathews of Llandaff, and A 

 List of the Birds of Australasia (2 copies), by Gregory M. Mathews, 

 from the author ; The Birds of Tropical West Africa, Volume V, by 

 David Armitage Bannerman, from the Crown Agents for the Colo- 

 nies ; The Minor Elements — Their Occurrence and Function in Plant 

 Life, with Reference Abstract Bibliography (one of 9 copies issued) — 

 and Element Assimilation by Plant Life, with Reference Abstract 

 Bibliography (one of 12 copies issued), by Griffith Hatton Riddle, 

 from the Research Foundation, Inc.; Die Bambuti-Pygmaen vom 

 Ituri, by Paul Schebesta, from M. Hayez, editor; A Guide to the 

 Snakes of Uganda, by Capt. Charles R, S. Pitman, from the Uganda 

 Society ; An Anthology of Japanese Poems, edited and translated by 

 Asataro Miyamori, from the editor; The Birds of the Malay Penin- 

 sula, Volume IV — Birds of the Low Country, Jungle and Scrub (2 

 copies), by Herbert C. Robinson and Frederick N. Chasen, from the 

 Federated Malay States Museums; Randers Fjords Naturhistorie, 

 by A. C. Johansen, from Dr. Svend Dahl; The Molluscs of South 

 Australia, Part 1, The Pelecypoda, by Bernard C. Cotton and Frank 

 K. Godfrey, from the authors; Biological Survey of the Mount De- 



