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publications to the sectional libraries of the Museum. TJiey borrowed 

 2,553 from the Library of Congress and 570 elsewhere, and returned 

 2,600 to the Library of Congress and 592 to other libraries. They 

 advanced materially the reorganization of the technological library, 

 where important changes in physical equipment occurred during the 

 year. They also rendered the usual reference and informational serv- 

 ice to scientists both inside and outside the Institution and to the 

 general public. 



The sectional libraries were unchanged. With the aid of a number 

 of C. W. A. employees, the staff made considerable progress in 

 cataloging their collections. These 35 libraries are as follows: 



Administration 



Administrative assistant's office 



Agricultural history 



Anthropology 



Archeology 



Biology 



Birds 



Botany 



Echinoderms 



Editor's office 



Engineering 



Ethnology 



Fishes 



Foods 



Geology 



Graphic Arts 



History 



Insects 



Invertebrate paleontology 



Mammals 



Marine invertebrates 



Medicine 



Minerals 



MoUusks 



Organic chemistry 



Paleobotany 



Photography 



Physical anthropology 



Property clerk's office 



Reptiles and batrachians 



Superintendent's office 



Taxidermy 



Textiles 



Vertebrate paleontology 



Wood technology 



OFFICE LIBRARY 



The office library consists of works of general reference, the pubhca- 

 tions of the Smithsonian and its branches, as well as of certain other 

 learned institutions and societies, and many books and periodicals of 

 more or less popular interest, including the collection once Ivnown as 

 the "employees' library". In it, too, is the newly organized rare-book 

 collection. The accessions for the last fiscal year were 173 volumes, 

 732 parts of volumes, and 19 pamphlets. The number of volumes 

 bound was 100. The staff made 2,562 periodical entries, prepared 828 

 cards for the union catalog and 355 for the catalog of the technological 

 library, filed 1,505 cards, mounted 847 aeronautical clippings in 

 continuation of one of the projects begun under the C. W. A., an- 

 swered 181 reference ciuestions, loaned 2,765 publications, and 

 received 2,439 visitors. 



BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY LIBRARY 



The library of the Bureau of American Ethnology has to do mainly 

 with the history, life, and culture of the early peoples of the Americas, 

 especially the Indians of North America. Besides the 30,701 volumes 



