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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 19 3 



NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK LIBRARY 



The library of the National Zoological Park is made up of publi- 

 cations that have to do chiefly with the habits and care of animals, 

 and is designed for the use of the director and those associated with 

 him. It numbers 1,213 volumes and 403 pamphlets. Its accessions 

 for the year were 4 volumes and 3 pamphlets. 



SUMMARY OF ACCESSIONS 



The accessions for the year may be summarized as follows: 



Library 



Astrophysical Observatory 



Bureau of American Ethnology 



Freer Gallery of Art 



Langley Aeronautical -.. 



National Gallery of Art. 



National Zoological Park 



Radiation and Organisms 



Smithsonian deposit, Library of Congress. 



Smithsonian office 



United States National Museum 



Total. 



Volumes 



140 



559 



P3 



37 



97 



4 



74 



2,720 



1.938 



2.317 



7,979 



Pamphlets 



and 



charts 



151 



150 



229 



85 



60 



3 



14 



4, fi22 



31(5 



008 



6,298 



Total 



291 



709 



322 



122 



157 



7 



88 



7,342 



2, 2.')4 



2,985 



14,277 



The approximate number of volumes, pamphlets, and charts in the 

 Smithsonian library system on June 30, 1930, was as follows: 



Total 782,830 



This total does not, of course, include the large number of volumes 

 in the system still uncatalogued or awaiting completion. 



UNION CATALOGUE 



Further progress was made on the union dictionary catalogue begun 

 a short time ago. This will require many years to complete, but 

 when it is finished it Avill be an invaluable instrument in the reference 

 activities of the Institution, for it will constitute a central author- 

 title-subject finding list, for the most part on Library of Congress 

 cards, of all the items in all the 40 Smithsonian libraries. Unfor- 

 tunately, with the present force, the progress of this work must con- 

 tinue to fall short each year of what we should like. 



Notwithstanding this fact, however, the staff, besides keeping up 

 with the current work, was able to finish cataloguing the important 

 John Donnell Smith botanical collection, with the exception of one set 

 of pamphlets and reprints, and to make considerable headway in cata- 



