REPORT OF THE SECR;ETARY 



99 



Their Relation to Systemic Diseases — A Review of the Literature, in 

 2 volumes, by Dr. Malcolm Graeme MacNevin and Dr. Harold Stearns 

 Vaughan, from the authors ; Australia, 1788-1938 — Historical Review, 

 from the Hon. B. S. B. Stevens, Premier of New South Wales; and 

 Voyage Zoologique d'Henri Gadeau de Kerville en Asie-Mineure 

 (Avril-Mai 1912), Tome Premier, Premiere Partie (12 copies), from 

 Henri Gadeau de Kerville. 



STATISTICS 



The accessions to the library system, then, were several thousand 

 fewer than usual. They were as follows: 



Library 



Vol- 

 umes 



Pam- 

 phlets 

 and 

 charts 



Total 



Approxi- 

 mate 

 holdinRS 

 June 30, 

 1940 



Astrophysica) Observatory 



Bureau of American Ethnology 



Freer Gallery of Art.. 



Langley Aeronautical 



National Collection of Fine Arts 



National Museum 



National Zoological Park 



Radiation and Organisms 



Smithsonian Deposit, Library of Congress 

 Smithsonian offlre 



Total 



71 



364 



230 



33 



327 



l,8fl7 



26 



89 



1, 955 



129 



95 



94 



22 



198 



938 



38 



2 



1,214 



17 



166 



364 



324 



55 



525 



2.805 



64 



91 



3.169 



146 



9.84« 



1 52. 762 



15, 761 



3,498 



7,292 



216, 839 



3.846 



527 



566. 664 



30, 892 



5,091 



2.618 



» 7. 709 



' 907, 816 



• This number Includes about 20,000 pamphlets. 



' From both the accessions for the year and the total holdings are omitted many publications waiting to 

 be completed, bound, or cataloged. 



The staff made 26,422 periodical entries; cataloged 6,105 volumes, 

 pamphlets, and charts ; prepared and filed 42,388 catalog and shelf -list 

 cards; and loaned 11,745 publications to members of the Institution 

 and its branches. They carried on an extensive interlibrary loan serv- 

 ice with more than 50 libraries in Washington and outside, including 

 several in Mexico and Cuba : an undertaking that involved the writing 

 of many letters and the handling — without a single loss, it may be 

 added — of 2,832 publications. They responded to an unusually large 

 number of inquiries for bibliographical and other information, some 

 of which required hours of research, often at the Library of Congress. 

 They also contributed 635 cards to the index of Smithsonian publica- 

 tions, bringing it practically up to date, and a few to the index of 

 exchange relations. Finally, they advanced the union catalog as 

 follows : 



Volumes cataloged 3, 523 



Pamphlets and charts cataloged 2, 203 



New serial entries made 379 



Typed cards added to catalog and shelf list 0,253 



Library of Congress cards added to catalog and shelf list 16, 504 



280256 — 41 8 



