58 ANNUAL EEPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1934 



Abbot, Assistant Secretary Wetmore, Mrs. Charles D. Walcott, R. S. 

 Bassler, E. A. Chapin, A. H. Clark, W. L. Corbin, W. F. Foshag, R. 

 Kellogg, W. R. Maxon, G. S. Miller, Jr., G. S. Myers, A. J. Olmsted, 

 M. J. Rathbun, H. Rehder, and F. M. Setzler. 



SMITHSONIAN DEPOSIT 



The Smithsonian deposit is the original and main library of the 

 Institution. In 1866 this collection, then numbering 40,000, was 

 transferred to the Library of Congress, where it has been increased to 

 about 530,000 by regular sendings from the Smithsonian. Although 

 on many subjects, the collection is concerned chiefly with the natural 

 sciences and technology. It is especially complete in its files of the 

 reports, proceedings, and transactions of learned societies and institu- 

 tions, both American and foreign, and of scientific and technical jour- 

 nals and monographs. 



During the past year the additions to the deposit from the Institu- 

 tion totaled 2,851 volumes, 9,596 parts of volumes, 5,185 pamphlets, 

 and 15 charts. They included 5,973 dissertations. Many documents 

 of foreign governments, addressed to the Institution but intended for 

 the documents division of the Library of Congress, continued to come, 

 especially by mail, to the Smithsonian library. They were forwarded 

 promptly. The number of publications sent to the deposit in re- 

 sponse to special requests was 2,255. Most of these were obtained 

 on the basis of exchanges already established; many more than usual 

 were found in the west stacks of the Institution as the result of the 

 progress made during the year by the library staff, assisted by several 

 competent C. W. A. employees, in organizing the collection of 

 duplicates. 



NATIONAL MUSEUM LIBRAEY 



The library of the United States National Museum was increased 

 during the year by 14,842 publications, or 2,158 volumes, 11,699 

 parts of volumes, 965 pampldets, and 20 charts. The library now 

 numbers 86,738 volumes and 111,713 pamphlets. Among the acces- 

 sions 1,593 were found in the Smithsonian duplicate collection, or 

 received in response to special-request letters; 505 were obtained by 

 transfer from the Library of Congress, and 77 by exchange from the 

 Public Library of the District of Columbia. IVfany of the others were 

 given by members of the scientific staff. The library prepared several 

 hundred volumes for the bindery but, owing to lack of funds, was able 

 to send only 128. The staff entered 11,731 periodicals, cataloged 

 3,111 publications, added 25,925 cards to the catalogs and shelf lists, 

 filed 6,160 cards of the Concilium Bibliographicum, sorted and assigned 

 to the sectional libraries thousands of others of this series, filed 463 

 cards of the Wistar Institute, and made 9,972 loans to tlie curators and 

 their assistants and 110 to other libraries. They also sent 5,310 



