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University, Canton; Magyar Aero Szovetseg, Budapest; Royal 

 Anthrox^ological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, London; 

 R. Universita, Pavia; and Saalburgmuseum, Homburg vor der 

 Hohe, Among the publications received were 5,340 dissertations, 

 chiefly from foreign universities and technical schools. 



The correspondence of the library, involving 2,836 letters, or 1,028 

 more tlian the previous year, had to do largely, as usual, with the 

 exchange of publications. The number of items obtained to meet 

 special needs in various libraries of the Institution was 4,133, or 543 

 more than in 1931, the greatest increase being shown: in those 

 received for the library of the National Museum, where a special 

 effort was made to check the standard sets. 



GIFT8 



Three gifts were outstanding — namely, a set, in 45 volumes, of 

 the Phra Tripitaka, recently translated from the Bali into Siamese 

 by the Mahamongkut Academy, from His Majesty the King of 

 Siam in honor of His Majesty the late King Phra Mongkut Klao 

 and for the encouragement of orientalists in their studies of the 

 eastern classics; a set, in 3 volumes, of the translation into Siamese 

 of the Paramatthamanjusa Visuddhi Maggatika (Commentaries on 

 the Visuddhi-Magga), from His Excellency Chao Phya Abbai Raja; 

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

 partenenza a Genova, presented by His Excellency Dino Grandi 

 during his recent visit to Washington as Royal Italian Minister of 

 Foreign Affairs. Two other very important gifts were a copy, in 3 

 volumes, of Mohenjo-Daro and the Indus Civilization, edited by Sir 

 John Marshall, from the editor, and one of volumes 19 and 20, with 

 portfolios of plates, of The North American Indian, by Edward S. 

 Curtis, from Mrs. E. H. Harriman — to complete the Smithsonian set 

 of this superb work. Still other gifts included the following: Birds 

 of Tropical West Africa, volume 2, by David Armitage Bannerman, 

 from the Crown Agents for the Colonies; The Crosses and Culture 

 of Ireland, by A. Kingsley Porter, from the Metropolitan Museum 

 of Art; Faraday and His Metallurgical Researches, by Sir Robert 

 A, Hadfield, from Maj. Gen. George O. Squier; Illustrated Cata- 

 logues of the Gustave Dreyfus Collection (Reliefs and Plaquettes, 

 Medals, Bronzes), 3 volumes, from Sir Joseph Duveen; Illustra- 

 tions of Japanese Aquatic Plants and Animals, 2 volumes, by the 

 Fisheries Society of Japan, from the society ; An Introduction to the 

 Literature of Vertebrate Zoology, edited by Casey A. Wood, from the 

 Blacker Library of Zoology, McGill University; Les Oiseaux de 

 I'Indochine Francaise, by J. Delacour and P. Jabouille, from J. Dela- 

 cour; and Problems in Modern Physics, by H. A. Lorentz, from 



