REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 25 



The following is a stateuieut of the Ijooks, iiiap>4, iiiid (;iiaits ivceived 

 by the Smithsonian Institution from ,luly 1, 1888, to June 30, 1889: 



Voliiiiirs: 



Octavo or siiiailt'i- 1, Odi 



Quarto or laij^or 4'Js 



i,r>oo 



Parts of voliuiies: 



Octavo or smaller [>, TjoO 



Quarto or larger (>, ()4r) 



]2,'202 



Pamphlets : 



Octa vo or smaller 2, 705 



Quarto or larger 47:! 



:?,178 



Maps V . . . 474 



Total ^ 17, 354 



Of these accessions 4,810 (namely, 441 volumes, 3,752 parts of vol- 

 umes, and 617 pamphlets, were retained for use in the Museum library, 

 and 521 medical dissertations were deposited iu the library of the Sur- 

 geon-GeneraPs Office, U.S. Army; the remainder was promptly sent 

 to the Library' of Congress on the Monday following their receipt. 



The following universities have sent complete sets of all their aca- 

 demic publications for theyear,includingthe inaugural dissertatious de- 

 livered by the students on graduation : Bern, Bonn, Dorpat, Erlangen, 

 Freiburg-im Bieisgau, Giessen, Gottingen, Halle-an-der-Saale, Heidel- 

 berg, Helsiugfors, Jena, Kiel, Kouigsberg, Leipzig, Louvain, Lund, 

 Tubingen, Utrecht, and WUrzbnrg. 



A list of the important accessions will be found in the Appendix (Re- 

 port of the Librarian). 



THE DEPARTMENT OF LTVxNG ANIMALS. 



The collection of the departmeutof living animals has increased dur- 

 ing the year (almost wholly by donations) to such an extent as to quite 

 overcrowd its accommodations, and render it necessary to resolutely 

 check its giowtb, while the degree of interest manifested in this small 

 disj)lay has been surprising. This has been shown not only bj' the 

 residents of Washington, and visitors to the city, who form the daily 

 crowd of visitors, but many residents of remote States and Territories 

 have testified their interest by sending valuable gifts to the collec- 

 tion. 



Besides these, many valuable gifts of (juadrnpeds and birds have 

 been received from United States Army officers in Texas. A most val- 

 uable donation received during the year came from the Hon. W. F, 

 Cody (Buffalo Bill), of North Platte, Xebr., and consisted of three fine 

 American elks, two males and a female. 



])r. V. T. McGillycuddy, of Rapid City, Dak., offered to deposit in 

 the collection four American bisons which have been in his possession 

 for several years. The conditions of the offer were considered suf- 



