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EEPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Boxes. 



Norway 2 



Portugal 2 



Prussia 2 



Queensland 2 



Saxony 2 



Scotland 2 



South Australia 2 



Spain 2 



Boxes. 



Sweden 2 



Switzerland 2 



Tasmania 2 



Turkey •. 2 



Venezuela 2 



Victoria 2 



Total 37 



LIBRARY. 



In accordance with the arrangement entered into shortly after the 

 fire of 1865, between the Smithsonian Institution and the Congress of 

 the United States, all the publications received by the Institution, in 

 exchange or by donation, are transferred to the Library of Congress. 

 The following enumeration represents the sum total of such increment : 



Statement of the hools, maps, and cJiarts received by tJie Smitlisonian Insti- 

 tution during the year 1878, and transferred to the Lihrary of Congress. 



Volumes : 



Octavo, or less 860 



Quarto, or larger 403 



1,263 



Parts of volumes : 



Octavo, or less 2, 356 



Quarto, or larger 2, 620 



4,976 



Pamphlets : 



Octavo, or less 1, 953 



Quarto, or larger 463 



2, 416 



Maps and charts 74 



Total 8, 729 



Of course, as heretofore, the more important works, like the publica- 

 tions of the leading scientific and industrial societies and academies 

 throughout the world, by their aggregation s have continued to render 

 the Smithsonian library one of the most valuable -of the kind extant. It is 

 believed that no collection elsewhere contains so large a number of vol- 

 umes of scientific transactions and journals, or in so complete a series. 



For the purpose, however, of perfecting the catalogue, it is proposed, 

 in the early part of 1879, to print a list of what the Institution possesses 

 of this character, inviting contributions of deficiencies and promising 

 similar courtesy, so far as the publications of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion are concerned. 



The following is a list of some of the principal works received by the 

 Smithsonian Institution in 1878 : 



