Appendix III. 



REPORT UPON INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF 

 THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE :50, 1888. 



By J. TI. KiDDiUi, Curator. 



The business of the exchange office has increased (luring the year, as shown by tlie 

 fonowinjr tal)Ie : 



Piickages received 



Packages shipped, doincMtic 

 Packages aliipped, foreign . . 



]886-'87. 



52, '218 

 10, liiM 

 41,424 



1887-'88. 

 7r,, 107 



I'j, :i(»i 



C2,-306 



Increase. 



22, 889 



2, 007 



20, 882 



or over 40 per cent, rnon; jiacivages were h.'indled than during tlie ])revion8 year. This 

 large increase is partly oll'set by tlie fact that an unusaally large number of the pack- 

 ages received during the year just passed were single juiblications an<l of small size. 

 The business of the office is set forth in detail by Exhibit A, hereto appended. 



The expense of the service for the fiscal year has been $ir),li;}.7r), of which sum 

 f l'i,000 were voted by Congress for the support of the " international exchaugea 

 with foreign countries," and $20r).7r) were refunded by the Patent Office, Signal Of- 

 fice, and a correspondent in South America, leaving a net deficit of l|::i,l)08, which has 

 been paid from the Smithsonian fund. 



The expenditure for the fiscal year 1888-'8t) at the present rate, making no allow- 

 ance for iucroaso in the business of the office or in the pay of its emi)loy^s, will be 

 $1(;,0.'")0. If the amount estimated for Jast October, |;l.^),00(), shall bo voted by Con- 

 gress, there will be a deficit at the end of the year of at least $1,050, to be paid by 

 the Smithsonian fund. Consi<lering the probability th.at the business of the office 

 will continue to increase during the next fiscal year, I tliink it reasonable to expect 

 that the deficit will amount to as much as !|-J,OOU by the ;50th of June, 1889. 



KK-IMIUJUSKMKNT OK KXI'KNSKS. 



In former years a part of the deficit in the exjiense of traiisporti-.tion has been re- 

 paid to tlMi Smithsonian Institution Iiy th<^ different departmerils and bureaus of the 

 Government, to whi<;h occasional appropriations have be(;n granted by Congress for 

 the purj)ose. During the past year such payments have been made by the Signal 

 Office and Patent Office, but only of a part of their indebtedness, the usual appro- 

 pri.ati<m8 to other bureaus having been omitted. The Institution has, therefore, de- 

 sisted from sending bills during the year to offices of the National Government, bal- 



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