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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1933 



FREER GALLERY OF ART LIBRARY 



The library of the Freer Gallery of Art is concerned mainly with the 

 art and culture of the Far East, India, Persia, and the nearer East. 

 It has a number of works on American painters, particularly James 

 McNeill Wliistler, and on the Washington Manuscripts, the well- 

 known Biblical manuscripts of the fourth and fifth centuries, which 

 the Gallery owns. The main collection was increased during the 

 year by 180 volumes and 88 pamphlets and now numbers 4,857 

 volumes and 3,399 pamphlets. The field collection has about 800 

 volumes and 500 pamphlets. The staff entered 147 periodicals, sent 

 31 volumes to the bindery, added 2,730 cards to the catalog and shelf 

 list, and made many analytical index cards for articles in important 

 art journals. 



NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK LIBRARY 



The additions to the library of the National Zoological Park were 

 1 volume and 11 parts of volumes, increasing this collection on 

 animals and their care to 1,222 volumes and 410 pamphlets. 



SUMMARY OP ACCESSIONS 



The accessions for the year may be summarized as follows: 



Library 



Astrophysical Observatory , 



Bureau of American Ethnology 



Freer Gallery of Art.. 



Langley Aeronautical 



National Gallery of Art 



National Zoological Park 



Radiation and Organisms 



Smithsonian Deposit, Library of Congress 



Smithsonian Office 



United States National Museum. 



Total 



Volumes 



130 



320 



180 



46 



344 



1 



4 



2,744 



114 



2,436 



6,319 



Pamphlets 

 and charts 



259 



126 



88 



35 



93 







1 



3,226 



9 



786 



4,623 



Total 



389 



446 



268 



81 



437 



1 



5 



5,970 



123 



3,222 



10, 942 



In the library system of the Institution there were on June 30, 1933, 

 approximately the follomng: 



Volumes 591, 183 



Pamphlets 201, 454 



Charts 26, 640 



Total 819, 277 



There were also a great many uncataloged, unbound, and micom- 

 pleted volumes. 



SPECIAL ACTIVITIES 



The staff arranged and classified the Berlandier manuscripts on the 

 natural history of Mexico; sorted out hundreds of publications that 

 had ceased to be useful to the Institution or its bureaus and trans- 

 ferred them to the Library of Congress, Patent Ofiice, and Howard 



