76 



ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1925 



as appears in the above table, for many foreign publications are 

 received direct by mail by correspondents in this country. 



Latvia, which joined both conventions in 1924, has established a 

 service of international exchanges under the state library at Riga. 



The total number of boxes used in despatching consignments was 

 2,325. This was a decrease of 139 from the preceding year and is 

 accounted for by the smaller size of the packages received for trans- 

 mission abroad, as referred to above. Of the total number of boxes 

 shipped abroad, 268 were for the foreign depositories of full sets 

 of United States governmental documents, and the remainder (2,057) 

 was for distribution to miscellaneous establishments and indi- 

 viduals. While the Smithsonian Exchange Service, as a rule, trans- 

 mits its consignments to other countries in boxes, sometimes the pack- 

 ages that accumulate for a particular country are not of sufficient 

 bulk to warrant their transmission by freight, and they are mailed 

 directly to their destinations. In addition, quite a number of pack- 

 ages are forwarded by mail to remote places which can not be reached 

 through the existing exchange agencies. During the year the num- 

 ber of packages sent abroad in this manner was 39,499. 



The number of boxes sent to each country is given in the following 



table : 



Consignments of exchanges for foreign countries 



Country 



Argentine Republic 



Austria. - 



Belgium 



Bolivia 



Brazil 



British Colojiies 



Bulgaria 



Canada.- 



Chile. 



China 



Chosen 



Colombia 



Costa Rica 



Cuba 



Czechoslovakia.. 



Danzig 



Denmark 



Ecuador. 



Egypt 



Esthonia , 



Finland 



Franca 



Germany.. 



Oreat Britain and Irekmd. 



Greece... 



Guatemala 



Uonduras 



Hungary 



India. 



Italy 



Jamaica 



Japan 



Number 

 of boxes 



43 

 54 

 68 



2 

 34 

 11 



1 

 20 I 

 22 



50 



6 



18 



12 

 5 



80 

 3 



41 

 2 



12 



10 



20 

 174 

 289 

 303 



12 

 2 

 2 



30 



42 



98 

 2 



ne 



Country 



Latvia 



Lithuania 



Mexico 



Netherlands 



New South Wales 



New Zealand 



Nicaragua 



Norway 



Palestine 



Paraguay 



Peru 



Poland 



Portugal 



Queensland 



Roumania.- 



Russia 



Salvador 



Siam 



South Australia.. , 



Spain , 



Sweden 



Switzerland 



Tasmania 



Turkey 



Union of South Airica. 



Uruguay 



Venezuela 



Victoria 



Western Australia 



Yugoslavia 



Number 

 of boxes 



Total. 



6 



3 



5 

 86 

 29 

 22 



1 

 33 



4 



2 

 19 

 38 

 19 

 16 

 14 

 98 



2 



3 

 20 

 36 

 70 



37 

 14 

 10 

 40 

 11 

 17 



2,325 



