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loguing the library of the Freer Gallery of Art. This work involved 

 classify liijjj the publications and in<)untin;j: many <>f them in pami)hl('t 

 binders. The staff spent some time in cliecking the Lan^loy aero- 

 nautical collection and makini; the necessary chauf^es in the cataloj^ue 

 cards incident to the transfer of tliat library to the Library of Con- 

 <rress. It worked out a plan by which the Library of Con<;ress can 

 obtain copies of certain cards prepared by the staff for liling in its 

 union catalo<iue. It also provided that Library with manuscrijit 

 copies of a iroodly number of titles, to be printed and distributed with 

 the cards regularly issued by the Library. In atldition, it added more 

 than 15,000 cards to the shelf list of the Museum library, thus ad- 

 vaijcing it to a point from Avhich it can be completed at an early date, 

 and began the preparation of a union shelf list to be kept, with the 

 union catalogue, in the Smithsonian Building. For this shelf list 

 27,417 cards were made, besides those prepared for the current publi- 

 cations catalogued. The cataloguing work of the year may be 

 shown in detail by the following statistics: 



Volumes catnlocfued 4, 902 



Volumes recjitnlogued 15 



ramplilets catalogued 2, G22 



riiiirt.s catalogued 289 



Typed cards added to catalogue 8,710 



Library of Congress cards added to catalogue 26,513 



SPECIAL ACTIVITIES 



Some of the special activities of the year have already been re- 

 corded under the appropriate sections of this report. Those that have 

 not been may be set down here. One detailed piece of work was 

 the checking of several long sets of publications, with a view to 

 completing them, especially those of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington, the Zoological Society of London, and the LTnited 

 States Geological Survey. In connection Avith this work hundreds 

 of paper-covered publications of the United States Geological Survey 

 were listed for return to the survey, to be replaced by cloth-bound 

 volumes, in accordance with a recent agreement between the Museum 

 and the survey for the exchange of bound copies of their respective 

 publications. The reports and other publications of the State 

 geological surveys, which had been brought together the previous 

 year from various Smithsonian libraries, were also checked and most 

 of them used to fill gaps in either the main library of the Museum 

 or the library in the department of geology. The 434 volumes not 

 needed for this purpose were given to the United States Geological 

 Survey. About 1,050 scientific reprints were distributed to the 

 curators. 



