EEPORT OF THE SECRETABY 



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to study, 16 to make sketches from plates, and 203 to see the reproduc- 

 tions of the Washington manuscripts. 



NATIONAIi ZOOLOGICAL PARK LIBRARY 



Among the 1,217 volumes and 407 pamphlets in the library of the 

 National Zoological Park are many of great value to those interested 

 in the care and habits of animals. Its additions for the year were 

 four volumes and four pamphlets. 



SUMMARY OF ACCESSIONS 



The accessions for the year may be summarized as follows : 



Library 



Astrophysical Observatory 



Bureau of American Ethnology.. 



Freer Gallery of Art 



Langley Aeronautical 



National Oallery of Art 



National Zoological Park.. 



Radiation and Organisms 



Smithsonian deposit, Library of Congress 



Smithsonian offlce 



United States National Museum 



Total 



Volumes 



180 



GOO 



61 



122 



145 



4 



20 



2,626 



686 



2,528 



6,972 



Pamph- 

 lets and 

 charts 



92 



190 



150 



133 



166 



4 



1 



5,478 



32 



832 



7,078 



Total 



272 

 790 

 211 

 255 

 311 

 8 

 21 



8,104 

 718 



3,360 



14, 050 



It is estimated that on June 30, 1931, the number of volumes, 

 pamphlets, and charts in the Smithsonian library system was as 

 follows : 



Volumes 578,057 



Pamphlets 192,477 



Charts 26, 346 



Total 796,880 



In addition to this total, there were, of course, many thousands of 

 volumes still uncatalogued or awaiting comf)letion. 



UNION CATALOGUE 



Besides keeping up the current cataloguing work, the staff com- 

 pleted the shelf list of the National Museum library and prepared 

 a copy of part of it for filing with the union shelf list in the 

 Smithsonian Building; catalogued and arranged the publications of 

 the Carnegie Institution of Washington; finished cataloguing the 

 John Donnell Smith collection, including a large set of miscellaneous 

 publications, for which they prepared about 1,100 analytical and 

 subject entries; began the recataloguing of the general botanical 

 collection in the National Museum ; and, finally, made notable prog- 



