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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1924 



The number of boxes sent to each country is given in the following 

 table : 



Consignments of exchanges for foreign countries 



Country 



Number 

 of boxes 



Argentine Republic ' 44 



Austria.. 55 



Belgium --- 65 



Bolivia --- --- 2 



Brazil - --. 34 



British Colonies 3 



Bulgaria -.. 4 



Canada 30 



Chile 22 



China - 75 



Colombia -- 16 



Costa Rica -.. 9 



Cuba - 5 



Czechoslovakia 64 



Danzig --- 2 



Denmark 37 



Egypt-. 7 



Esthonia - 22 



Finland. 1 11 



France. 1 185 



Germany 1 292 



Great Britain and Ireland i 332 



Greece j U 



Hungary j 47 



India j 50 



Italy 92 



Jamaica I 2 



Country 



Number 

 of boxes 



Japan 



Latvia 



Lithuania 



Mexico. 



Netherlands 



New South Wales 



New Zealand 



Norway 



Peru 



Poland. 



Portugal 



Queensland 



Rumania, _ 



Russia 



South Australia 



Spain.. 



Sweden 



Switzerland 



Tasmania. 



Union of South Africa 



Uruguay 



Venezuela 



Victoria. 



Western Australia 



Yugoslavia 



I 



262 

 14 



9 

 30 

 65 

 29 

 23 

 42 

 11 

 45 

 16 

 15 

 13 

 72 

 18 

 33 

 68 

 61 



6 

 32 

 12 

 10 

 39 



6 

 15 



2,464 



FOREIGN DEPOSITORIES OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENTAL DOCUMENTS 



In accordance with the terms of a convention concluded at Brus- 

 sels March 15, 1886, and under authority granted by Congress in 

 resolutions approved March 2, 1867, and March 2, 1901, 59 full sets 

 of United States official documents and 38 partial sets are now sent 

 through the Exchange Service regularly to depositories abroad. The 

 Ministry of Finance, Government of Northern Ireland, Belfast; 

 State Library, Reval, Esthonia; and the library of the League of 

 Nations, located at Geneva, Switzerland, have lately been added to 

 the list of those receiving full sets. The number of full and partial 

 sets of governmental documents forwarded to foreign depositories 

 is 97. The total number provided by law for this purpose and for 

 the Library of Congress is 100. 



The convention concluded at Brussels in 1886 provided for the in- 

 ternational exchange of official documents and scientific and literary 

 publications. That convention Avas ratified by the United States, 

 Belgium, Brazil, Italy, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, and Switzerland. 

 Since the ratification of the Brussels convention a number of coun- 



