REPORT OF THE SECRETARY: NATIONAL MUSEUM 79 



tions and Fossils of South Manchuria, by Riuji Endo; and small 

 editions for office use of the complete volumes 79, 80, and 81 of the 

 Proceedings of the National Museum. Forty-one separate papers 

 published include 2 in the Bulletins and 39 in the Proceedings. 



The distribution of volumes and separates to libraries and indi- 

 viduals on the regular mailing lists aggregated 71,294 copies; while 

 in addition 14,256 copies of publications issued during this and pre- 

 vious years were supplied in response to special requests. The 

 mailing lists have been revised to avoid loss in distribution. 



During the year 504,770 forms, labels, and other items were printed 

 and 970 volumes were bound. 



LIBRARY 



In the library system of the Smithsonian Institution, the National 

 Museum Library is second in importance only to the Smithsonian 

 deposit in the Library of Congress. Its collections, concerned 

 chiefly with natural history and technology, were increased during 

 the year by 2,436 volumes and 786 pamphlets, and now number 

 84,580 volumes and 110,748 pamphlets. The accessions came, as 

 usual, from four sources: Purchases, gifts, exchanges, and binding 

 periodicals. 



Gifts were received from many members and associates of the 

 Museum staff. Mrs. Charles D. Walcott gave the library many 

 publications, as did also the late Dr. William H. Holmes, former 

 director of the National Gallery of Art, his gifts for the year totaling 

 more than 600. Important gifts also were received b}' assignment 

 from the Smithsonian Institution. One was a collection of letters 

 written by Asa Gray, John Torrey, Charles Pickering, Capt. Charles 

 Wilkes, and others of the United States exploring expedition, 1838-42, 

 to William D. Brackenridge, a prominent botanist of the expedition. 

 The collection was presented to the Institution by Mrs. Isabel Brack- 

 enridge Hendry, acting for the grandchildren of Mr. Brackenridge. 

 It constitutes a valuable addition to the manuscript material on the 

 subject already in the library. 



The staff kept the current work up to date and performed certain 

 extra activities. They entered 10,458 periodicals, or 1,433 more than 

 in 1932. Among these were 204 volumes and 1,092 parts that they 

 obtained by special exchange letters in the process of completing 

 standard sets. They also began 86 new exchanges for the Museum; 

 sent 795 volumes to the bindery; cataloged 2,108 volumes, 954 pam- 

 phlets, and 15 charts; and added 20,242 cards to the catalogs and 

 shelf lists. Until toward the close of the j^ear the library work for the 

 National Gallery of Art was done, as usual, by the main library staff; 

 it consisted of entering 428 periodicals and cataloging 344 volumes and 



