60 REPOKT OF THE SECRETARY. 



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



American Epliemeris 



Army Medical Museum 



Botanical Gardens 



Bureau of Education 



Bureau of Engineers, TJ. S. Army. 



Bureau of Ethnology 



Bureau of tlio Mint .' 



Bureau of Statistics 



Census Bureau 



Coast Survey 



Commissioners 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 



Library of Congress 



Light-House Board 



Marine Hospital 



Nautical Almanac 



Natfonal Academy 



National Board of Health 



National Mu.seum 



Navy Department 



Naval Observatory 



Office of Indian Affairs 



Ordnance Bureau, XJ. S. Army . . . 



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 



Public Printer . 



18 

 276 



113 

 3 

 5 



212 

 1,795 



5,050 



22 



74 



136 



11 



17 



10, 695 



Sent 

 by. 



2 



72 



31 



1,558 



200 



497 

 3,657 



175 



392 



4 



128 



16, 494 

 27, 300 



10, 695 43, 794 



Total Governent exchanges 54,489 



Miscellaneous exchanges 28, 083 



Total exchanges 82,572 



Of the 82,572 parcels received by the Exchange Bureau, 69,35G were for foreign 

 and 13,210 for domestic distribution. 



While it is thus shown that more work has been doue and with less force than in 

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

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

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

 j)iug room will, I am contident, prevent any reasonable complaints of delays in the 

 office 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 pay 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 Institution as in former years and are entitled, as well as the immediate employ 6s 

 of the Bureau, 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 to others we are indebted for reduced rates in consideration of the 

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



