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junior librarian, to succeed her, and the transfer of Miss Anna 

 Moore Link from the editorial office in the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology to the vacancy thus created; the advancement of Miss 

 Nancy Alice Link to the position of editorial assistant in the Bureau ; 

 the resignation of Mrs. Dorothy E. Goodrich, under library assistant, 

 and the selection of Miss Elizabeth Gordon Moseley as her successor. 

 The position of minor library assistant was reclassified to that of 

 junior clerk-typist and filled by the appointment of Miss Elizabeth 

 Harriet Link. Charles McDowell served part of the year as assist- 

 ant messenger. The temporary employees were Mrs. Georgeanna 

 H. Morrill, library assistant, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Bendure, assistant 

 clerk-stenographer, Miss Anna May Light, junior clerk-stenographer, 

 Mrs. Marie Boborykine, special library assistant, and Arthur W. 

 Gambrell, assistant messenger. 



EXCHANGE OF PUBLICATIONS 



The exchange work of the library was again carried on with the 

 greatest difficulty, owing to abnormal world conditions. The pack- 

 ages received through the International Exchange Service were only 

 515 — fewer by 814 even than those of the year before, when there had 

 been a similar decrease from the normal number; the packages that 

 came by mail were 17,038, or 3,283 fewer than came the previous 

 year. Most of the publications that failed to come were, of course, 

 European and Asiatic. Fortunately, some of these are being held 

 by the issuing agencies, to be sent to the library as soon as the wars 

 are over; others have merely delayed publication; but a few have 

 been discontinued. Altogether the influence of the disturbed condi- 

 tions that prevailed was far from favorable to the increase and 

 diffusion of knowledge by means of the exchange of learned 

 publications. 



There were received, however, a number of rather large sendings, 

 notably from the Clube Zoologico do Brasil, Sao Paulo ; Bataviaasch 

 Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschaffen, Batavia ; Royal Swedish 

 Academy of Letters, Stockholm ; Eoyal Society of Edinburgh, Edin- 

 burgh; Royal Society of Tasmania, Hobart; and Wellington Accli- 

 matisation Society, Wellington. 



Dissertations came from only 4 universities, 2 of which are in 

 a neutral European country — Basel and Ziirich ; and 2 in the United 

 States — Johns Hopkins and Pennsylvania. These totaled 452 — quite 

 a contrast to the 5,190 received in 1939 from 34 foreign institutions 

 and 3 American. Of the 452 dissertations 261 were assigned to the 

 Smithsonian Deposit, and the rest, being on medical subjects, were 

 turned over, as usual, to the library of the Surgeon General. 



