Report on the Library 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the following report on the activities 

 of the Smithsonian library for the fiscal year ended Jime 30, 1963 : 



ACQUISITIONS 



The acquisitions section received 118,101 publications during the 

 year. Included in this total were 3,065 purchased items and 1,057 

 journal subscriptions. The rest were received as gifts and exchanges. 

 Arrangements were established with 142 scientific and learned or- 

 ganizations for the exchange of additional publications, and 1,540 

 items required special search to obtain. 



Interested donors presented the library with valuable and diflScuIt 

 to locate publications. Some of the outstanding are : 



"Colonial Records, 1660-1790," and "Pennsylvania Archives, 1661-1790," from 

 Mrs. William A. McGuire, Johnstown, Pa. 



"Susquehanna Company Papers," edited by Julian P. Boyd, from the Cornell 

 University Press. 



Cortesao, Armando, and Avelino Teixeira da Mota. Portugaliae Monumenta 

 Cartographica. Lisbon, 19G0. 5 vols, and index, from the Commissao Executiva 

 do V Centena'rro da Morte do Infante D. Henrique, Lisbon, Portugal. 



34 volumes from the estate of Mrs. Helen Augusta Mosher, Marblehead, Mass. 



28 volumes on art from the library of the late Henry Salem Hubbell, Miami, 

 Fla. 



647 volumes from the estate of Mrs. Dora W. Boettcher, Washington, D.O. 



972 periodicals on electronics from Mrs. J. B. Brady, Somerset, Md. 



Ross, Marvin C. "Catalogue of the Byzantine and Early Mediaeval Antiquities 

 In the Dumbarton Oaks Collection," vol. 1, Metalwork, Ceramics, Glass, Paint- 

 ings, from the author, Washington, D.C. 



45 issues of the Baltimore Sun Almanac, 1876-1925, from Miss Ruby Smith, 

 Washington, D.C. 



American Topical Society. Flowers and botanical subjects on stamps, from 

 Dr. Willard F. Stanley, Fredonia, N.Y. 



Bruce, A. W. "The Steam Locomotive in America," from Thomas T. Taber, 

 Madison, N.J. 



Antrim, Earl. "Civil War Prisons and Their Covers," from the author. 

 Nampa, Idaho. 



Dredge, James. "A Record of the Transportation Exhibits at the World's 

 Colnmbian Exposition of 1893," from Mrs. B. B. Bierer, Jr., Washington, D.O. 



Greenwell, G. C. "A Practical Treatise on Mine Engineering, 1855," from 

 Cornelius U. S. Roosevelt, Washington, D.C. 



Perlman, Bernard B. "The Immortal Eight, American Painting from Eaktns 

 to the Armory Shovi' ( 1870-1913 ) ." 1962. 



Brooks, Van Wyck. "John Sloan, a Painter's Life." 1955. From Mrs. John 

 Sloan, Wilmington, Del. 



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