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United States governmental documents, and the remainder (2,047) 

 were for distribution to miscellaneous establishments and individuals. 

 While the Smithsonian Exchange Service, as a rule, transmits its 

 consignments to other countries in boxes, it is more economical to 

 forward certain shipments direct to their destinations by mail, and 

 during the year the number of packages sent abroad in this manner 

 was 85,435, an increase of 8,826 over the number mailed last year. 

 The decrease in the number of boxes forwarded abroad in 1931 and 

 1932 and the increase in the number of packages transmitted by 

 mail during the same period were due to the sending since January 1, 

 1931, of the greater part of the packages for British correspondents 

 direct by mail. 



FOREIGN DEPOSITORIES OF GOVERNMENTAL DOCUMENTS 



The total number of sets of United States official documents for- 

 warded to foreign depositories is 112, 62 full and 50 partial. 



The full set of official documents sent to the Prefecture of the 

 Seine has, at the request of the Library of Congress, been discon- 

 tinued and forwarded to the American Library in Paris. The partial 

 set of documents sent to Bengal is now addressed : "Assistant Secre- 

 tary to the Government of Bengal, Department of Education, 

 Writers' Buildings, Calcutta." The series of governmental docu- 

 ments sent to Northern Ireland are now addressed to the " Superin- 

 tendent of His Majesty's Stationery Office, Custom House, Belfast." 

 A list of the depositories is given in the report for 1931. 



INTERPARLIAMENTARY EXCHANGE OF THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL 



The following have been added to the list of those establishments 

 receiving copies of the daily issue of the Congressional Record : 

 Office Nationale du Commerce Exterieur, Paris; Reichsfinanzminis- 

 terium, Berlin; Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City. 

 These three new depositories, after allowing for the elimination of 

 the set sent to Barcelona, which was discontinued, make the total 

 number of copies of the Congressional Record forwarded to foreign 

 depositories 104. 



The depository of the Record in Aracaju, Brazil, has been changed 

 to Bibliotheca Publica de Sergipe, Aracaju. For a list of the states 

 taking part in the immediate exchange of the official journal, together 

 with the names of the establishments to which the Record is mailed, 

 see the report for 1931. 



A list of the agencies abroad through which the distribution of 

 exchanges is effected is given below. Most of these agencies for- 

 ward consignments to the Institution for distribution in the United 

 States. 



