REPORT ON EXCHANGES. Ill 



seaport, from wbeiice the diarizes for ocean freight, etc., are assumed 

 by the recipient. Shoukl, however, the Imperial government prefer 

 haviiig all exchanges delivered to any representative in Wasiiington, 

 those intended for the United States might be delivered to Dr. Felix 

 Fliif^el, in Leipsic, the agent of the Smitlisonian Jnstitntion. 

 1 have tlie honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, 



8. V. Baikd. 



CORRESrONDENCE WITH GREAT BIMTAIN. 



From the Department of State, April 10, LS8(>, to tlie ISmUh.sonuoi Inslitit' 



tion. 



iSiR: Api)lication having been made through our legation at London 

 for certain jiublications of tliis Government for the use of the library of 

 the IJritisli ]\Iuseum, I liave the honor to request you to inform tliis 

 ]^epartment as to the i)ractical working of the exchange of Government 

 publications between tliis country and Great Britain. Information is 

 ])articularly desired as to whether or not the publications of the British 

 Government are received regularly in exchange for those of our Gov- 

 ernment which are sent to London ; and also as to what library or 

 libraries in Great Britain receive the publications of this Government 

 which are forwarded to tliat country through the exchange bureau of 

 the Smithsonian Institution. 



I have the honor to be, sir, vour obedient servant, 



T. F. Bayard. 



From the Smithsonian InstitiUion, April 22, ISSG, to the Secretary of 



State. 



Sir : I ha\ e the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 

 the 10th instant, relative to an api)lication made by the Ijritish Museum 

 in London for certain publications of the United States Government 

 and requesting information as to the practical working of the exchange 

 of oflicial publications between this country and England, and as to 

 the number of copies of official publications sent through the exchange 

 bureau of the Smithsonian Institution to libraries in Great Britain. 



In reply I beg to state that the Smithsonian Institution, on behalf of 

 the United States Government, has sent to the British Government a 

 full series of all the documents ordered to be printed by order of either 

 House of Congress and beginning with the 1st of January, 1S08, as spec- 

 itied m the accompanying pamphlets. By direction of Lord Granville 

 all transmissions are nnide to the British Museum. 



In addition to these oflicial i)ublications the Smithsonian Institution 

 has furnished the British Museum with the following series of its own 

 publications: Contributions to Knowledge, vols. 1 to 25; Miscellaneous 

 Collections, vols. 1 to 27; annual Beports^ 1340 to 18S3; annual Keports, 

 Bureau of Ethnology, vols. 1 to 3 ; Proceedings of the National Mu- 

 seum, vols. 1 to 7; Bulletins of the National Museum, Nos. 1 to 27. 



And to the natural history division of the British Museum : Contribu- 

 tions to Knowledge, vols. 1 to 2.") ; ^Miscellaneous Collections, vols. 1 to 27 ; 

 annual lieports, 1851 to 1883; Bulletins National JMuseum, Nos. 1 to 27. 



The returns on the i)art of the British Museum have been confined to 

 the series of its own publications, which are sent in two copies for the 

 libraries of the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum, respect- 

 ively. 



