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good cataloging. It is hoped, as one of the compensations for the 

 decrease in foreign accessions, to be able to continue and extend this 

 program for making our already acquired resources more fully and 

 easily usable. 



In the matter of exchanges, a comparable program is in progress. 

 With no immediate possibility of filling gaps in our files of foreign 

 serials from sources abroad in direct exchange for our own publica- 

 tions, we are using, and are studying how to make further use of, 

 our large and valuable duplicate collection for strengthening and 

 extending our domestic exchanges. Lists of desiderata exchanged 

 with other institutions are bringing good results in finding parts 

 needed to complete incomplete serial files in all the participating 

 libraries. Many of our duplicates, too, are given directly to other 

 Government libraries that need them. Notably, in response to a 

 request from the Scientific Library of the Patent Office, we were able 

 this year to supply 1,524 parts of periodicals lacking in their sets. 



GIFTS 



Friends and patrons made generous gifts to the library. The 

 Secretary, the Assistant Secretary, and other members and collabo- 

 rators of the Smithsonian staff contributed many publications. The 

 American Museum of Natural History, the Boston Museum of Fine 

 Arts, and other institutions with which we are regularly in ex- 

 change made us special gifts in addition. From the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science came 724 publications, 

 and 68 were received from the American Association of Museums. 

 A noteworthy gift, numbering some 2,000 items, was the library on 

 Copepoda assembled by the late Dr. Charles Branch Wilson and 

 presented by his son, Carroll A. Wilson, to the Division of Marine 

 Invertebrates. A card index for use with the collection accompanied 

 it. Of special interest was Mrs. Cyrus Adler's gift of the post- 

 humously published book, I Have Remembered the Days, the autobi- 

 ography of the late Dr. Cyrus Adler, formerly librarian of the 

 Institution. Other donors were, Percy S. Alden, Theodore Bolton, 

 Willard C. Brinton, L. V. Coleman, Dr. P. T. CoUinge, Miss Elsie 

 G. Curry, Dr. Carl Epling, Mrs. Paul Garber, The Board of Directors 

 of the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District, Dr. John M. 

 Hiss, R. G. Ingersoll Waite, Prof. James R. Jack, Dr. Thomas H. 

 Kearney, Dr. Riley D. Moore, Dr. W. L. McAtee, The National 

 Society of Colonial Dames of America, Dr. T. L. Northup, Mrs. 

 Foster Stearns, Prof. Theodore Sizer. 



