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550 from the Bioloi^ical Society of W'asliington; 283 from the Geo- 

 physical Laborator}-; 235 from the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science; 195 from the National Institute of Health; 

 G6 from the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature; and 31 

 from the American Association of Museums. There were also gifts, 

 as usual, from many members of the Smithsonian staff, notably the 

 late Dr. William H. Holmes, who gave the library more than 600 

 publications. 



SMITHSONIAN DEPOSIT 



The Institution's main library of 40,000 was in 1866 deposited in 

 the Librar}'- of Congress. There it has grown, by almost daily addi- 

 tions from the Smithsonian, to well over 500,000. The collection 

 relates especially to the natural sciences and technology, being par- 

 ticularly strong in monographs and journals and in the reports, pro- 

 ceedings, and transactions of learned institutions and societies. 



In the course of the last fiscal year the Institution added to the 

 deposit 2,744 volumes, 10,202 parts of volumes, 3,117 pamplilets, and 

 109 charts. Among the items were 3,315 dissertations. Among 

 them, too, were 2,202 publications which the Smithsonian li])rary 

 obtained in exchange in response to requests from the Smithsonian, 

 periodical, and order divisions of the Library of Congress — a decrease 

 of 243 from the year before. The number of foreign documents re- 

 ceived by the library and forwarded to the documents division of the 

 Library of Congress was much smaller than usual, as more of these 

 government publications, it is gratifying to report, are each year 

 being sent directly to the Library through the International Exchange 

 Service and fewer by way of the Smithsonian library. Portraits of 

 the Founder and five Secretaries of the Institution were presented to 

 the Library of Congress late in the year, to be hung in the Smithsonian 

 division with those of other .scientists of note. 



NATIONAL MUSEUM LIBRARY 



The library of the United States National Museum numbers 84,580 

 volumes and 110,748 pamphlets. The additions in 1933 were 2,436 

 volumes and 786 pamphlets. The staff entered 10,458 periodicals — 

 1,433 more than the previous year. These included 1,296 volumes 

 and parts that they obtained in exchange as the result of checking 

 sets and writing special request letters. Owing to a reduction in the 

 allotment for binding, they sent only 895 volumes to the bindery, 

 although more were prepared. They cataloged 3,077 publications, 

 and added 20,242 cards to the catalogs and shelf lists. They also 

 did, as usual, most of the routine work for the library of the National 

 Gallery of Art. They forwarded to the files of the sectional libraries 

 5,901 publications, and lent to the curators and their associates 8,344. 



