EEPORT OF THE SECRETAEY 9 



torial staff, and all of the financial and other records are kept in one 

 office, where the status of every publication and allotment is avail- 

 able at any time. One hundred and twenty-one volumes and pam- 

 phlets were issued during the year, 50 by the Institution proper, 63 

 by the National Museum, 7 by the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 and 1 by the Astrophysical Observatory. Detailed information re- 

 garding these publications will be found in the report of the editor. 

 Appendix 11. The total number of publications distributed was 

 223,045. 



LIBRARY 



The Smithsonian library, made up of 10 divisional libraries and 

 35 sectional libraries, now contains more than 800,000 volumes, pam- 

 phlets, and charts. Accessions during the year totaled 6,807 volumes 

 and 4,648 pamphlets and charts, most of which were received in 

 exchange. Among the outstanding gifts were a set in 45 volumes of 

 the "' Phra Tripitaka " from His Majesty the King of Siam and a 

 copy of " Cristoforo Colombo — Documenti & prove della sua ap- 

 partenenza a Genova," presented by His Excellency Dino Grandi. 

 Considerable progress was made in recataloguing the botanical col- 

 lection of the National Museum library, and the reclassifying and 

 recataloguing of the Freer Gallery of Art library was almost com- 

 pleted. Arrangements were made for assembling a dictionary index 

 to all of the publications of the Institution and its branches. 



GOVERNMENTALLY SUPPORTED BRANCHES^ 



National Museum. — The total appropriations for the past year 

 were $835,090, an increase of $4,696 over those for the previous year. 

 Plans were completed for the wings to be added to the Natural His- 

 tory Building, authorized in 1930 ; but owing to the need for national 

 economy, the estimate of $1,200,000 to begin construction could not 

 be included in the Budget. Additions to the collections numbered 

 157,870 specimens, and as usual a large number of specimens were 

 examined and reported upon, exchanged with other institutions, and 

 given to schools. Important accessions in anthropology included 

 collections of artifacts from prehistoric sites in Europe ; series of old 

 native implements from Kodiak Island, Alaska; costumes and im- 

 plements used by the natives of Panama; and native pottery and 

 textiles from Africa. Collections of general biological material were 

 received from Southwest Africa and from Siam. Important series 

 of plants came from the Brazilian- Venezuelan frontier and from 

 Peru. In geology, a large number of interesting minerals were 



1 For further details regarding the work of these branches, see the appendixes at the 

 end of this report. 



