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ANNUAL KEPOBT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1925 



NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK LIBRARY 



Early in the j'ear the catalofjuinoj of the library of the National 

 Zoolo^^ical Park was completed, and its duplicates and other super- 

 fluous material were removed. Its accessions, including the old items 

 wO)ich had been in the library for some time but which had never 

 been entered, were 475 volumes, 1 part, and 2 pamphlets. 



SUJIMARY OF ACCESSIONS 



The accessions for the year, with the exception of those to the 

 library of the Bureau of American Ethnology, may be summarized 

 as follows: 



Library 



Volumes 



other 

 publica- 

 tions 



Total 



Astrophysieal Observatory 



Freer Gallery of Art 



National Gallery of Art 



National Zoological Park 



Smithsonian deposit, Library of Congress 



Smithsonian ofBce... 



United States National Museum 



Total J-— L :.. 



114 

 90 

 118 



475 

 6,184 



312 

 1, 457 



121 



127 



530 



3 



2,103 



9 



1,894 



235 

 217 

 648 

 478 



7,367 

 321 



3,351 



7,750 



4,787 



12, 537 



An estimate of the number of volumes, pamphlets, and charts in 

 the Smithsonian library (including the Smithsonian deposit in the 

 Library of Congress) on June 30, 1925, was as follows: 



Volumes 507, 750 



Pamphlets 137,558 



Charts 23, 402 



Totiil 668, 770 



This number does not include the many thousands of parts of 

 volumes now in the library awaiting completion of the volumes. 



SPECIAL ACTIVITIES 



Besides carrying on the usual work of the year, the library staff 

 gave as much time as possible to special problems, such as sorting 

 accumulations of miscellaneous material in different parts of the 

 library; bringing together superfluous duplicates and separates to 

 be disposed of later by gift or by piece for piece exchange; inven- 

 torying the sectional libraries; making shelf lists for the two divi- 

 sions of the Museum library; advancing the cataloguing of several 

 of the special collections, particularly the Iddings, Gill, and Knab; 

 furthering the cause of science by making part of the Lacoe collec- 



