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library — includes 3G sectional libraries, the small working units 

 maintained in the offices of the curators and other Museum officials. 

 The year's accessions totaled 14,050, including 6,972 volumes and 7,078 

 pamphlets and charts. Among the many gifts received during the 

 year may be mentioned several thousand volumes and pamphlets 

 from the library of the late Dr. George P. Merrill, presented by Mrs. 

 Merrill and the other heirs; 600 scientific publications from Mrs. 

 Dora W. Boettcher; and 386 volumes and pamphlets from the heirs 

 of the late Dr. O. P. Hay. 



Work on the union catalogue progressed satisfactorily. The staft' 

 completed the shelf list of the Museum library, catalogued tlie pub- 

 lications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the John 

 Donnell Smith collection, and made progress in reclassifying and re- 

 cataloguing the library of the Freer Gallery of Art. A number of 

 special activities were carried forward, such as the checking and com- 

 pleting of sets of publications, the transfer to other organizations of 

 certain publications not needed at the Institution, and the exchange 

 of duplicate publications for others needed to complete sets. 



GOVERNMENTALLY SUPPORTED BRANCHES 



NATIONAL MUSEUM 



The appropriations for the maintenance of the Museum totaled 

 $830,394, which included provision for four additional employees, 

 namely, an associate director, a clerk in the library, and two guards. 

 Although these additions are of great help to the efficient operation 

 of the Museum, there are still many offices, particularly in the scien- 

 tific departments, where the need for more workers is urgent. The 

 second deficiency bill for 1931 carried $10,000 for the preparation of 

 preliminary plans for the two wings to be added to the Natural 

 History Building under an authorization by Congress in the pre- 

 %Tious year. These plans, in course of preparation by the Allied 

 Architects Incorporated, will provide for two wings similar in 

 arrangement to the present building, that is, with the ground floor 

 and the third floor devoted to offices and laboratories and the two 

 floors between occupied by exhibits. This additional space will 

 relieve the present badly overcrowded condition in the natural his- 

 tory department of the Museimi; a similar need for space will still 

 exist, however, in the arts and industries department and the divi- 

 sion of history, and it is hoped that buildings for these collections, 

 which are of such great interest to the ^^ublic, may soon be provided. 



The year's additions to the collections exceeded in number those 

 of any previous year in the Museum's history, reaching a total 

 of 1,022,850 individual specimens. Gifts of duplicates to schools 

 totaled 7,384 specimens, and 31,516 specimens were loaned to scien- 

 tific workers outside of Washington. 



