EEPOUr ON EXCHANGES. 



85 



number of parcels received and distributed during the year comparing 

 with previous years as follows : 



Total immbcr of parccLs. . 8, 438 



1881. 



1882. 



1883. 



1884. 



First vsix 

 months 



1885. 



8,3r)9 11,000 10,237 5,138 n4,49G 



1885-'86. 



*This includes 2,533 parcels addressed by mail to the library of the lustitution. 



Government Exchange Division. — This division is not fully establislied 

 yet, all the active work, the receiving and shipping, being performed by 

 the assistants of the Foreign Exchange Division. Only one clerk is 

 employed in recording the books delivered by the Public Piiuter; and 

 when not occupied with this work in assisting tlie foreign exchange 

 division by addressing labels or envelopes. 



Twenty-nine boxes and 56,229 packages have been received and 114 

 boxes shipped in this division. 



]My own services during the year, in addition to the general super- 

 vision of the above work, have consisted in the writing of about 1,200 

 letters or memoranda for letters, including some extensive reports for 

 the nse of the Joint Library Committee of Congress; the preparation of 

 a new list of foreign correspondents of about 4,000 titles; of a list of 

 existing astronomical observatories, American and foreign; of a paper 

 on JS^orske Naval Architecture for the Proceedings of the National 

 Museum and the translation of a paper on Observations of Volcanic 

 Eruptions and Earthquakes in Iceland, accompanied by a complete 

 bibliography on the subject for the Smithsonian annual report for 1885. 



RECEIPTS. 

 1. For foreign <listrihuf!o7i. 



Wheuce received. 



(a) From Government Departments : 



Agricultural Department 



Bureau of Ethnology 



Bureau of Education 



Bureau of Statistics 



Comptroller of the Currency .- 

 Department of the Interior... 



Department of State 



Engineer's Bureau, U. S. Army 



Nautical Almanac 



Ordnance Office, U. S. Army.. 



Surgeon-Geueral's Otfice 



Treasury Department 



U. S. Coast, Survey 



U. S. Court of Claims 



U. S. Fish Commission 



1885-'8G. 



