REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 



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SUMMARY OF ACCESSIONS 



The accessions for the year may be summarized as follows: 



Library 



Astrophysical Observatory. 



Bureau of American Ethnology 



Freer Gallery of Art 



Langley aeronautical 



National Gallery of Art 



National Zoological Park 



Radiation and Organisms 



Smithsonian deposit, Library of Congress 



Smithsonian office 



United States National Museum 



Total 



^^olumes 



169 



400 



254 



52 



91 



4 



96 



2,872 



132 



2,737 



6,807 



Pam- 

 phlets 

 and charts 



275 



150 



163 



30 



84 



3 







3,063 



47 



833 



4, 6 18 



Total 



444 



550 



417 



82 



175 



7 



96 



5, 935 



179 



3,570 



11, 455 



On June 30, 1932, the Smithsonian library system contained ap- 

 proximately the following: 



Volumes 584. 864 



Pamphlets 196,945 



Charts 26, 526 



Total 808,335 



The system also had many thousands of volumes still uncata- 

 logued or incomplete. 



UNION CATALOGUE 



In addition to cataloguing the current items as they came in, the 

 staff made considerable progress in recataloguing the botanical col- 

 lection of the National Museum, and almost finished the reclassify- 

 ing and recataloguing of the library of the Freer Gallery of Art. 



The following statistics will show the work on the union catalogue 

 and shelf list : 



Volumes catalogued 4, 922 



Volumes reeatalogued 13 



Pamphlets catalogued 2, 733 



Pamphlets reeatalogued 3 



Charts catalogued 197 



Typed cards added to catalogue and shelf list 9, 848 



Library of Congress cards added to catalogue and shelf list 13, 208 



Museum cards copied for uuiou shelf list 1,741 



Freer cards prepared for union catalogue and shelf list, to be added 



later 2,666 



SPECIAL ACTIVITIES 



Still further progress was made during the year in putting the 

 scientific duplicates in the west stacks in order. The shelves of the 

 botanical library were completel}^ rearranged. About 50 sacks of 

 the publications of the Institution and its branches, which had been 



