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ANNUAL KEPOBT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1931 



During the year the Museum library staff was able to assist only 

 a few of the sectional libraries with their special problems, including 

 those in the divisions of plants, mammals, and geology. 



These libraries number 36, and are as follows : 



Administration. 



Administrative assistant's office. 



American archeology. 



Anthropology. 



Biology. 



Birds. 



Botany. 



Echinoderma. 



Editor's office. 



Ethnology. 



Fishes. 



Foods. 



Geology. 



Graphic arts. 



History. 



Insects. 



Invertebrate paleontology. 



Mammals. 



Marine invertebrates. 



Mechanical technology. 



Medicine. 



Minerals. 



Mineral technology. 



Mollusks. 



Old World archeology. 



Organic chemistry. 



Paleobotany. 



Photography. 



Physical anthropology. 



Proi)erty clerk's office. 



Reptiles and batrachians. 



Superintendent's office. 



Taxidermy. 



Textiles. 



Vertebrate paleontology. 



Wood technology. 



OrFICE LIBRARY 



The office library consists of works of general reference, sets of 

 the publications of the Smithsonian and its branches, and of various 

 foreign societies and institutions, as well as numerous publications of 

 a less learned and more cultural and even recreational character for 

 use during the leisure hours of the Smithsonian employees. The 

 additions to the library in the course of the last 12 months were 686 

 volumes and 32 pamphlets. The number of periodicals entered 

 was 229. 



BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY LIBRARY 



The library of the Bureau of American Ethnology contains 26,671 

 volumes and 16,717 pamphlets, chiefly on the archeology, history, 

 myths, religion, arts, sociology, language, and general culture of the 

 early peoples of the Western Hemisphere, especially of the North 

 American Indian. The collection was increased during the past year 

 by 600 volumes and 190 pamphlets. The number of periodicals 

 entered was 3,500, and of cards added to the catalogue 3,500. The 

 number of volumes bound was 473. The loans were 875. 



ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY LIBRARY 



The library of the Astrophysical Observatory is closely related in 

 content to the researches in astrophysics and meteorology that are 



