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Kobert A. Millikan. The largest miscellaneous gifts were 31 publi- 

 cations from Miss Margaret Miller, 37 from Dr. Adam G. B0ving, 

 58 from the American Association of Museums, 70 from Mrs, Jean 

 L. G. Ferris, 144 from the Library of Congress, 454 from Hamilton 

 College, 615 from William Perry Hay, and 650 from the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. Several hundred also 

 came, as usual, from Mrs. Charles D. Walcott. 



The members and associates of the Institution who gave publica- 

 tions to the library were as follows : Secretary Abbot, Assistant Sec- 

 retary Wetniore, Dr. E. S. Bassler, Dr. Marcus Benjamin, A. N. 

 Caudell, A. H. Clark, W. L. Corbin, Dr. Herbert Friedmann, Miss 

 Kate Gallaher, A. H. Howell, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, Neil M. Judd, Dr. 

 W. R. Maxon, G. S. Miller, jr., C. W. Mitman, A. J. Olmsted, 

 W. de C. Eavenel, J. H. Riley, and Dr. William Schaus. From the 

 late Dr. Charles W. Richmond also were received 100 or more vol- 

 umes and pamphlets, not a few of which were rare works on natural 

 history. 



THE SMITHSONIAN DEPOSIT 



The Smithsonian deposit in the Library of Congress is the largest 

 and most important meml)er of the Smithsonian library system; it 

 consists chiefly of the reports, transactions, and proceedings of 

 learned societies and institutions, and of scientific and technical 

 monographs and journals. The collection numbers considerably more 

 than 500,000 volumes, pamphlets, and charts. It is shelved mainly 

 in the Smithsonian and periodical divisions. During the year just 

 closed the Institution added to the deposit 2,872 volumes, 11,712 parts 

 of volumes, 2,883 pamphlets, and 180 charts — a total of 17,647 pub- 

 lications. These included 3,436 dissertations. They also included 

 2,445 publications which the Smithsonian library obtained by ex- 

 change in response to special requests from the Smithsonian, peri- 

 odical, and order divisions of the Library of Congress. Several 

 thousand documents of foreign governments were sent to the docu- 

 ments division of the Library. 



NATIONAL MUSEUM LIBRARY 



The library of the United States National Museum is one of the 

 principal units in the Smithsonian library system. In its 2 major 

 and 35 minor collections — chiefly on natural history and technol- 

 ogy — there are 82,144 volumes and 109,962 pamphlets. The year just 

 closed was one of unusual accomplishment. The accessions were 

 2,737 volumes and 833 pamphlets, a gain of 210 over the previous 

 year. The number of periodicals entered was 9,025, or 226 more than 

 in 1931. The cataloguing and recataloguing covered 2,236 volumes, 

 1,006 pamphlets, and 17 charts — an increase of 818 over the year 



