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the National Geographic Society ; Lo-Lang, a Report on the Excava- 

 tion of Wang-Hsii's Tomb in the Lo-Lang Province, an Ancient 

 Chinese Colony in Korea, by Yoshito Harada, with the Collabora- 

 tion of Kingo Tazawa, from the Tokyo Imperial University; The 

 Ellsworth Family, Volume IT — Lincoln Elsworth, by Howard El- 

 dred Kershner, from the National Americana Society; Impressions 

 of Japanese Architecture, by Ralph Adams Cram, from the Japan 

 Society of New York; Volumes IV and V of her well-known work, 

 North American Wild Flowers, from Mrs. Charles D. Walcott; 

 Volumes VII and VIII of the Smithsonian Scientific Series — Man 

 from the Farthest Past, by Carl Whiting Bishop, and Cold-Blooded 

 Vertebrates (Pt. I, Fishes; Pts. II and III, Amphibians and 

 Reptiles), by Samuel F. Hildebrand, Dr. Charles W, Gilmore, and 

 Doris M. Cochran — from the Smithsonian Institution; Clouds, by 

 Alexander McAdie, from the Blue Hill Observatory; The Travels of 

 Captain Robert Coverte, edited and presented by Boies Penrose; 

 Wild Flowers of the Alleghanies, by Joseph E. Harned, from the 

 author; William Henry Welch at Eighty, edited by Victor O. Free- 

 burg, from the Milbank Memorial Fund; The Indians of Pecos 

 Pueblo, by Earnest A. Hooton, from Phillips Academy; Handbook 

 of Aeronautics, by the Royal Aeronautical Society of London, from 

 the publishers. Gale & Polden (Ltd.) ; African Republic of 

 Liberia and the Belgian Congo (Harvard African Expedition, 1926- 

 27), in two volumes, edited by Richard P. Strong, from Harvey W. 

 Firestone; Natural History of Birds, in two volumes, by George 

 Edwards, from James Norris Woodward; and Tratado Elemental 

 de Botanica, with typed index, by Carlos Cuervo Msirgues, from W. 

 A. Archer. 



Gifts were also received from many members and associates of the 

 Smithsonian staff, including Secretary Abbot, Assistant Secretary 

 Wetmore, Dr. William H. Holmes, director of the National Gallery 

 of Art, Dr. J. M. Aldrich, H. G. Barber, Dr. Marcus Benjamin, E. J. 

 Brown, Dr. E. A. Chapin, A. H. Clark, Dr. Herbert Friedmann, 

 Dr. O. P. Hay, Dr. Walter Hough, A. B. Howell, Dr. Ales Hrdlickn, 

 Neil M. Judd, Dr. Remington Kellogg, Dr. W. R. Maxon, G. S, 

 Miller, jr., A. J. Olmsted, J. C. Proctor, Miss Mary J. Rathbun, 

 W. deC. Ravenel, Dr. C. W. Richmond, J. H. Riley^ J. Townsend 

 Russell, jr.. Dr. Waldo Schmitt, Miss Marian Seville, and E. H. 

 Walker. 



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The Smithsonian deposit in the Library of Congress is, as has 

 been said, the chief unit in the library system, numbering at present 

 more than 500,000 volumes, pamphlets, and charts. It is peculiarly 

 rich in scientific monographs, the reports, proceedings, and trans- 



