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ANNUAL REPOBT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1925 



curators, anil about the same number were returned. The loans 

 totaled 8,148, of which 5,8G1 were made to the sectional libraries, and 

 more than ever before to universities, such as Chicago, Illinois, Michi- 

 gan, and Minnesota, and to otlier institutions, both in Washington 

 and elsewhere. Many publications were consulted in the reference 

 room, not only by members of the Museum staff but also by others, 

 especially Government employees and scholars connected with various 

 universities and museums, American and foreign. Two hundred 

 and fifty-six volumes were bound. 



The number of sectional libraries in the Museum is now 38. These, 

 while under the immediate care of the administrative and scientific 

 staffs, are at the same time very real and important parts of the 

 general library and are administered as such. Their resources are 

 its resources, and their needs are its needs. And these needs are 

 often most urgent — the very ones to which the librarian feels he 

 should give his best thought and help. The past year he has devoted 

 much time to the study of these resources and needs, and to the 

 solution of the problems they have disclosed. The sectional libraries 

 are as follows : 



Administration. 



Administrative assistant's ofRcf. 



American archeology. 



Anthropology. 



Biology. 



Birds. 



Botany. 



Echiuoderms. 



Editor's office. 



Ethnology. 



Fishes. 



Foods. 



Geology. 



Graphic arts. 



History. 



Insects. 



Invertebrate paleontology. 



Mammals. 



Marine invertebrates. 



Mechanical technology. 



Medicine. 



Mineral technology. 



Minerals. 



IMollusks. 



National Gallery of Art. 



Old World archeology. 



Organic chemistry. 



Paleobotany. 



Photography. 



Physical anthropology. 



Property clerk's office. 



Reptiles and batrachians. 



Superintendent's office. 



Taxidermy. 



Textiles. 



Vertebrate paleontology. 



War library. 



Wood technology. 



TECHNOLOGICAL LIBRARY 



The technological library, the division of the Museum Library 

 which contains the collections of especial interest to the curators of 

 arts and industries, is located in the Old Museum Building. Dur- 

 ing the year the reorganization of its material was continued. Its 

 accessions numbered 152 volumes and 353 pamphlets, and its loans 

 150. 



