80 ANNUAL REPOET SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1933 



93 pamphlets. The number of vohimes and parts sent to the sectional 

 libraries for filing was 5,901. The number of intramural loans was 

 8,344, of which more than a third were made at the loan desk in the 

 Arts and Industries Building, Of these, 2,359 publications were 

 borrowed from the Library of Congress and 535 from other libraries, 

 including those of the Department of Agriculture, Geological Survey, 

 Army Medical Museum; and the Boston Public Library, Cleveland 

 Public Library, John Crerar Library, Newberry Library; the libraries 

 of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, Arnold Arboretum, Field Museum of 

 Natural History, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Peabody Museum; 

 and Columbia, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Michigan, Pennsylvania, 

 Princeton, and Yale Universities. In all, 42 publications were bor- 

 rowed from libraries out of town, and 30 lent to them. The number 

 of publications returned to the Library of Congress was 2,526 and to 

 other libraries 608. 



The staff filed the Wistar Institute cards to date and sorted and 

 distributed the systematic set of the Concilium Bibliographicum 

 cards to the sectional libraries. They began the rearrangement and 

 classifying of the contents of the manuscript case, taking up first the 

 Berlandier manuscripts, consisting of several thousand pages mainly 

 on the natural history of Mexico. They returned hundreds of publi- 

 cations no longer needed to the Superintendent of Documents, and 

 transferred other hundreds to the Library of Congress, the Patent 

 Office, and Howard University. 



One of the most important tasks of the staff during the year was 

 maldng analyticals for the first 36 volumes of the Proceedings of the 

 National Museum. This work was undertaken in cooperation with 

 the Library of Congress, to which the 1,694 manuscript cards prepared 

 were sent for printing, and completes the analysis of this well-known 

 set of Museum pubHcations. Library of Congress printed cards will 

 soon be available for all the publications that have been issued by the 

 Smithsonian Institution and its bureaus. Several sets of these cards 

 are being received by the library, of which two are being filed in the 

 union and Museum catalogs. One is also being used as the basis of 

 the dictionary index that was begun at the Smithsonian early in the 

 year. Finally, the difficult task of reorganizing the technological 

 library in the Old Museum was notably advanced. The wooden 

 shelving in the north gallery on the third floor was replaced by steel 

 to the extent of 1,134 linear feet, the collections were reshelved, and 

 a careful reading of the shelves was begun, preparatory to taking an 

 inventory. 



As time permitted, the staff continued to render special assistance 

 in solving the problems of the sectional libraries, including those of the 

 divisions of mammals, botany, and physical anthropology. 



