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libraries throughout the country in which it was not needed. It 

 also continued to act as a clearing-house, thus sending out again 

 much of this material to institutions that were waiting for it. The 

 libraries of more than 25 museums, colleges, and universities eagerly 

 shared in this give and take effort, which was to the advantage of 

 all participants, but chiefly of the Smithsonian library, for by this 

 means it was able not only to make many of the publications of the 

 Institution more widely available to readers and investigators, but 

 to increase in no small measure the supply of such publications — some 

 of which had long been out of print — that could be used for future 

 exchanges, 



GIFTS 



Many gifts came to the library during the year. Among these 

 were 622 publications from the Geophysical Laboratory of the Car- 

 negie Institution of Washington ; 612 from the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science ; 72 from the American Association of 

 Museums; 66 from the Public Library of the District of Columbia; 

 42 from the National Institute of Health; and 94 from the recently 

 discontinued Bureau of the International Catalogue of Scientific 

 Literature. Among them, too, were a large number of publications 

 from the Honorable Usher L. Burdick, Member of Congress from 

 North Dakota, from the late Mrs. Charles D. Walcott — always a 

 generous friend of the library — and from the Secretary and Assistant 

 Secretary and other members of the Smithsonian staff. The largest 

 gift, however, came from Mrs. Frederick E. Fowle — that of 942 sci- 

 entific books and journals which had belonged to her husband, the 

 late research assistant of the Astrophysical Observatory. 



Other gifts were Hiroshige, by Yone Noguchi, from the Japanese 

 Embassy; The Herbarist, Nos. 1-7 (1935-1941), from Mrs. Foster 

 Stearns; Chinese Jade Carvings of the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth 

 Century in the Collection of Mrs. Georg Vetlesen — an illustrated 

 descriptive record compiled by Stanley Charles Nott, volume III, 

 from Mrs. Georg Vetlesen ; A Catalogue of Rare Chinese Jade Carv- 

 ings (2 copies), compiled by Stanley Charles Nott, from the com- 

 piler; Two Early Portraits of George Washington Painted by 

 Charles Willson Peale, by John Hill Morgan, from the Princeton 

 University Press ; Bird Reserves, by E. C. Arnold, from the author ; 

 Moss Flora of North America North of Mexico, volume II, part 4, 

 by Dr. A. J. Grout, from the author; The Young Mill-Wrights & 

 Miller's Guide (1807), by Oliver Evans, from Edna E. Switzer; 

 Charles Goodyear — Connecticut Yankee and Rubber Pioneer — A Bi- 

 ography, by P. W. Barker, from Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc. ; The Shorter 



