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ANNUAL EEPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 19 31 



During the year 3,002 boxes were shipped abroad, a decrease from 

 the number for the preceding 12 montlis of 233, a little over 7 per 

 cent. Of the total number of boxes, 692 contained full sets of United 

 States official documents for authorized depositories abroad, and the 

 remainder (2,310) were filled with publications for miscellaneous 

 correspondents. The boxes measured 16,003 cubic feet. 



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

 table : 



Consignments of exchanges fonvarded to foreign countries 



Country 



Albania 



Argentina 



Austria.- 



Belgium 



Brazil 



British Colonies 



Bulgaria 



Canada 



Chile 



China 



Colombia..- 



Costa Rica- 



Cuba 



Czechoslovakia 



Danzig 



Denmark 



Kgypt 



Estonia - 



Finland 



France - 



Germany 



Great Britain and Ireland 



Greece 



Guatemala 



Haiti , 



Hungary 



India- 



Italy 



Japan- 



Korea 



Number of 

 boxes 



10 



65 



50 



73 



55 



13 



3 



44 



38 



89 



25 



23 



11 



67 



1 



55 



20 



22 



19 



183 



383 



236 



2 



2 

 3 

 40 

 77 

 119 

 106 

 1 



Country 



Number of 

 boxes 



Latvia 



Lithuania - 



Mexico 



Netherlands -. 



New South Wales 



New Zealand-.- 



Norway 



Palestine 



Persia - 



Peru.-- 



Poland— 



Portugal 



Queensland 



Rumania 



Russia 



South Australia 



Spain... 



Sweden 



Switzerland 



Tasmania- 



Turkey 



Ukraine 



Union of South Africa 



Uruguay 



Venezuela 



Victoria 



Western Australia 



Yugoslavia 



Total 



22 

 2 

 11 

 88 

 48 

 31 

 46 

 48 

 2 

 27 

 69 

 24 

 25 

 24 

 165 

 26 

 38 

 95 

 84 

 21 

 10 

 61 

 58 

 24 

 33 

 46 

 20 

 19 



3,002 



As explained in previous reports, in addition to the packages for- 

 warded abroad in boxes for distribution by foreign exchange bureaus, 

 man}^ are transmitted direct to their destinations by mail — some be- 

 cause it is more economical to send by mail than by freight; some, 

 like the daily issue of the Congressional Kecord, because treaty 

 stipulations provide that they shall be so forwarded; and some for 

 the reason that they are for places remote from existing exchange 

 agencies. The total number of packages transmitted by mail during 

 the year was 76,609, an increase over last year of 8,664. 



Last year mention was made that nine boxes of exchanges from 

 Germany were destroyed at the steamship pier in New York through 

 the burning and sinking of the vessel on board of which the boxes 

 were being transmitted to this country. I regret to report that during 

 the current fiscal year eight bo.xes for China met a similar fate at 

 the pier in New York, the steamship President Harrison^ on board 



