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of which the consignment had been phiced for transmission to China, 

 Iiaving been destroyed by fire and water. 



As usual, assistance was rendered during the year to the Library 

 of Congress in procuring for its division of documents copies of 

 various foreign governmental publications missing in its collections. 

 Aid also was given to a number of establishments, both here and 

 abroad, in obtaining specially desired publications. For this service, 

 as well as for the help in the distribution of exchanges, letters of 

 appreciation are often, received by the Institution from its corre- 

 spondents. 



FOREIGN DEPOSITORIES OF GOVERNMENTAL DOCUMENTS 



There are now forwarded to foreign depositories of United States 

 official documents 112 sets — 62 full and 50 partial — an increase of 

 three over the number transmitted last year. Afghanistan, Bengal, 

 and the Vatican Library were added to the list of those countries 

 receiving partial sets. Greece, to which the shipment of a full set 

 was temporarily suspended, has been listed to receive a partial set. 

 The partial set sent to Alsace-Lorraine has been discontinued. 



The address to which the partial set for Guatemala was forwarded 

 has been changed from the Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores to the 

 Biblioteca Nacional. The depository in Poland to which a full set 

 of Government documents is forwarded has been changed by the 

 Polish Government from the Library of the Ministry of Foreign 

 Affairs to the National Library in Warsaw. 



A complete list of the depositories is given below : 



DEPOSITORIES OF FUTX SETS 



Akgentina : Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Buenos Aires. 



Buenos Aires : Biblioteca de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La 

 Plata. (Depository of the Province of Buenos Aires.) 

 Australia: Library of the Commonwealth Parliament, Canberra. 



New South Wales : Public I^ibrary of New South Wales, Sydney. 



Queensland : Parliamentary Library, Brisbane. 



South Australia : Parliamentary Library, Adelaide. 



Tasmania: Parliamentary Library, Hobart. 



Victoria : Public Library of Victoria, Melbourne. 



Western Australia: Public Library of Western Australia, I'erth. 

 Austria : Bundeskanzleramt, Herrengasse 23, Vienna I. 

 Belgium : Bibliotheque Royale, Brussels. 

 Brazil: Bibliotheca Nacional, Ilio de Janeiro. 

 Canada : Library of Parliament, Ottawa. 



Manitoba : Provincial Librai-y, Winnipeg. 



Ontario : Legislative Library, Toronto. 



Quebec: Library of the Legislature of the Province of Quebec. 

 Chile : Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional, Santiago. 



