128 ANNUAL EEPOTIT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1930 



Anion^ tlie items received were several thousand dissertations from 

 the universities of Basle, Berlin, Bern, Bonn, Breslau, Budapest, 

 Erlan<ren, Freiber^r, Giessen, Greifswald, Halle, Heidelberg, Helsing- 

 fors, Jena, Johns Hopkins, Kiel, Konigsberg, Leipzig, Lund, Mar- 

 burg, Neucliatel, Pennsylvania, Kostock, Strasbourg, Tiibingen, 

 Utrecht, Wiirzburg, and Ziirich ; and from technical schools at Berlin, 

 Bonji, Braunschweig, Delft, Dresden, Freiberg, and Karlsruhe. 



Most of the 1,711 letters written by the library staff during the 

 year — which, by the way, represented an increase of about 400 over 

 the previous year — had to do with the acquisition of this material. 

 Many of these involved careful checking of sets and reviewing of 

 earlier correspondence. Some proposed or accepted exchange for 

 new publications. This gratifying increase in the number of letters 

 written by the library xvas effected largely by the recent reorganiza- 

 tion of the accessions department. As the immediate result of this 

 increase the exchange correspondence of the library was brought 

 practically up to date. Most of the letters were prepared in re- 

 sponse to special requests for publications needed by the Smithsonian 

 deposit and the libraries of the National Museum and the Astro- 

 physical Observatory. The number of items thus obtained was 2,928. 



GIFTS 



As usual, there were many gifts. The largest one came from Mr. 

 James Townsend Russell, jr., honorary collaborator in old world 

 archeology in the National Museum, who presented to the Institu- 

 tion 1,400 volumes on different subjects, together with a collection of 

 music. These will be assigned mainly to the Smithsonian deposit, 

 the office library, and the libraries of the National Museum and the 

 National Gallery of Art. About 150 volumes and 1,000 periodicals, 

 chiefly on aeronautics, came from the National Aeronautic Associa- 

 tion; and 2,000 or m.ore miscellaneous scientific publications from the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American 

 Association of Museums, the Anthropological Society of Washington, 

 the Geophysical Laboratory, the Hygienic Laboratory, the Interna- 

 tional Catalogue of Scientific Literature, the Philosophical Society 

 of Washington, and the Library of Congress. Another important 

 gift was that of 58 volumes on Japanese history and literature, from 

 the Historiographical Institute, Tokyo. 



Among other gifts were GO volumes, largely in the field of mining 

 engineering, from Mr. A, F. G. Lucas, and copies of the following: 

 Mythology of All Races, volumes 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, and 11, by various 

 authors, from the Archaeological Institute of America and the 

 Marshall Jones Co., of Boston ; The Birds of Tropical West Africa, 

 volume 1, by David Armitage Bannerman, from the Crown Agents 

 for the Colonies on behalf of the Governments of Gambia, Gold 



