REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 71 



Since the outbreak of the European war in September 1939, so 

 far as reported to the Institution, five consignments of exchanges 

 have been lost, the details of which are given below : 



Five boxes forwarded to Denmark in December 1939 were destroyed on the 

 dock in Bergen by fire caused by airplane bombardment. 



Five boxes sent to France in April 1940 were destroyed by fire at the Havre 

 railroad station. 



Eleven boxes forwarded to England in November 1940 were lost at sea. 



Thirteen boxes sent to Germany in August 1939 were lost at Havre after 

 the consignment was disembarked. 



One box, while in the warehouse of the Smithsonian agents in London await- 

 ing shipment to the Institution, was destroyed in January 1941 by fire caused by 

 airplane bombardment. 



FOREIGN DEPOSITORIES OF GOVERNMENTAL DOCUMENTS 



On account of conditions in Europe due to the war, several deposi- 

 tories have been removed from the list of those receiving full and par- 

 tial sets of United States governmental documents. This has resulted 

 in reducing the number of those publications now received from a 

 total of 104 to 92—55 full and 37 partial sets. 



The depository of the partial set in Haiti has been changed from 

 the Department of Foreign Affairs to the National Library. The Hon- 

 duran Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been added to the partial-set 

 list. 



A complete list of the depositories is given below : 



DEPOSITOBIES OF FULL SETPS 



Abgentina : Direccion de Investigaciones, Archivo y Propaganda, Ministerio de 



Relaciones Exteriores y Culto, Buenos Aires. 

 Australia : Commonwealth Parliament and National Library, Canberra. 



New Soxjth Wales : Public Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 



Queensland: Parliamentary Library, Brisbane. 



South Austballa : Parliamentary Library, Adelaide. 



Tasmania: Parliamentary Library, Hobart. 



Victobia: Public Library of Victoria, Melbourne. 



Western Australia : Public Library of Western Australia, Perth. 

 Belgium : Biblioth^que Royale, Bruxelles. 

 Brazil : Instituto Nacional do Livro, Rio de Janeiro. 

 Canada : Library of Parliament, Ottawa. 



Manitoba: Provincial Library, Winnipeg. 



Ontario: Legislative Library, Toronto. 



Quebec : Library of the Legislature of the Province of Quebec. 

 Chile: Biblioteca Nacional, Santiago. 



China: Bureau of International Exchange, Ministry of Education, Chungking. 

 Colombia : Biblioteca Nacional, Bogotd. 

 Costa Rica: Oficina de Dep6sito y Canje Internacional de Publicaciones, San 



Jos6. 

 Cuba: Ministerio de Estado, Direcci6n de Relaciones Culturales, Habana. 

 Czechoslovakia: Bibliotheque de I'Assemblee Nationale, Prague. 



