REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 



89 



PERSONNEL 



Most important of the unusually large number of changes on the 

 staff was the retirement of William L. Corbin as librarian on January 

 31, 1942, after more than 17 years of service. Coming to the Insti- 

 tution in the early years after the First World War, he was con- 

 fronted with many difficult tasks of rehabilitation and administra- 

 tion. He gave his best efforts to the completion of important files 

 of scientific journals broken by tlie war, to the reestablishment and 

 extension of exchange relationships and to the building up of an 

 efficient library personnel for the service of the Institution. 



On February 2, 1942, Mrs. Leila F. Clark, wlio had been assistant 

 librarian in charge of the National Museum library since 1929, was 

 appointed librarian of the Institution. 



Miss Elisabeth P. Hobbs, head cataloger, was promoted on May 

 21, 1942, to the position of associate librarian in charge of the Mu- 

 seum library. Mrs. Lucile Torrey Barrett, who had given excep- 

 tional service as librarian of the National Collection of Fine Arts, 

 was transferred to a war agency on February 23, 1942. Other 

 changes were the resignation of Miss Ruth Blanchard on October 31, 

 1941, and the appointments of Miss Marjorie Kunze and Miss Marion 

 Blair on January 5, 1942. The temporary appointments of Mrs. 

 Georgeanna H. Morrill and Mrs. Clara Dick, made during the pre- 

 ceding fiscal year, were terminated on December 31, 1941. Assistant 

 messengers for short periods were Arthur Gambrell and John 

 Barnes. Samuel Jones, who is now serving, was appointed May 5. 



STATISTICS 



The accessions to the libraries were as follows: 



Accessions 



Astrophysical Observatory. 



Freer Gallery of Art 



Lancley Aeronautical 



National Collection of Fine Arts 



National Museum. 



National Zoological Park.. 



Radiation and Organisms 



Smithsonian Deposit, Library of Congress. 

 Smithsonian OlBce . . 



Total.. 



Volumes 



172 



74 



20 



191 



2,503 



12 



9 



892 



61 



3,934 



Pam- 

 phlets 



71 



07 



5 



114 



1,024 



13 



1 



423 



33 



1,751 



Total 



243 



141 



25 



305 



3,527 



25 



10 



1,315 



94 



5, 685 



Approxi- 

 mate hold- 

 ings June 

 SO, 1942 



10, 399 



16,366 



3.575 



7,994 



223, 287 



3,941 



606 



569, 977 



31,055 



' 867, 200 



' This figure does not include incomplete volumes of periodicals or separates and reprints from periodicals. 



