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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1941 



Scientific Papers of Lee Barker Walton, with an Introduction by 

 Herbert Osbom, edited by George P. Faust, from the editor; Genus 

 Labordia, Hawaiian Euphorbiaceae, Labiatae and Compositae, by 

 Dr. Earl Edward Sherff, from the author; Seventh Report of the 

 Chester County Cabinet of Natural Science (1834), from Dr. Rob- 

 ert B. Gordon; Barbed Fencing, by Charles G. Washburn — a type- 

 written copy of an original in the possession of the donor, Reginald 

 Washburn, who had the copy made especially for the Smithsonian 

 Institution ; Atlanta City Directory, 1940, from the Carnegie Library, 

 Atlanta; Men and Volts, by John Winthrop Hammond, from the 

 General Electric Company; The Cranial Bowl, by Dr. William G. 

 Sutherland, from the author; Military Medals and Insignia of the 

 United States, by J. McDowell Morgan, from the author; The 

 Stapelieae, in 3 volumes, by Alain White and Boyd L. Sloane, from 

 Alain White ; The Old Bay Line, by Alexander Crosby Brown, from 

 the Mariners' Museum, Newport News; By Their Works, by H. 

 Phelps Clawson, from the Buffalo Museum of Science ; and Flora of 

 Indiana, by Charles C. Deam, from the Indiana Department of 

 Conservation. 



SOME STATISTICS 



The accessions to the libraries were as follows : 



Library 



Volumes 



Pam- 

 phlets 

 and 

 charts 



Total 



Approxi- 

 mate 

 holdings 

 June 30, 

 1941 



Astrophysical Observatory 



Bureau of American Ethnology ..- 



Freer Gallery of Art _ 



Langley Aeronautical 



National Collection of Fine Arts 



National Museum 



National Zoological Park 



Radiation and Organisms .- 



Smithsonian Deposit, Library of Congress 

 Smithsonian office 



Total 



173 

 378 

 398 



32 



240 



1,979 



36 



67 

 1,350 



65 



138 



20 



157 



942 



34 



2 



758 



4 



311 

 378 

 464 



52 



397 



2,921 



70 



69 

 2,108 



69 



10, 156 



« 33, 140 



16, 225 



3,550 



7,689 



219, 760 



3,916 



696 



568, 662 



30, 961 



4,718 



2,121 



6,839 



894, 655 



I From this total have been omitted a large collection of pamphlets hitherto included in the holdings 

 reported for the library of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and quite a number of other publications 

 recently removed from the library as not being closely related to the work of the Bureau. 



The staff cataloged 6,693 volumes, pamphlets, and charts ; prepared 

 and filed 40,238 catalog and shelf -list cards; made 22,311 periodical 

 entries; loaned 10,990 publications to the members of the Institu- 

 tion and its bureaus; and conducted an interlibrary loan service 

 with 45 libraries outside the Smithsonian system. They rendered 

 more reference and bibliographical assistance than ever before, in 

 response to requests in person, by telephone, and by mail, from the 

 fetaff of the Smithsonian, other Government employees, visitors, 



