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NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF 



ever, that the last named regulation was not observed in some instances, 

 thus greatly increasing the labor of the officers in charge, by rendering 

 it necessary to make a transcript of the titles from the bundles them- 

 selves. 



Such publications ah were sent without specific addresses were dis- 

 tributed as appropriately as the information in possession of the Institu- 

 tion allowed. 



The boxes containing the packages enumerated in the list, left the 

 Institution towards the end of June, and, having been shipped by packet, 

 did not reach their European ports until some time in September. 

 They were immediately unpacked by the agents of the Institution, and 

 the parcels distributed, with the accompanying circulars, to their 

 respective addresses. Acknowledgments for many of them have 

 already been received. 



A. — Table showing the amount of printed ^matter sent abroad 

 IN 1854 BY THE Smithsonian Institution. 



2. Dhtribntcd by Hector Bossangc, Paris. 



