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ress in the work, begun the year before, of reclassifying and 

 reeataloguing the library of the Freer Gallery of Art. 



The work on the union catalogue and shelf list may be summed up 

 by the following statistics : 



Volumes catalogued 5, 127 



Volumes recatalogued 37 



Pamphlets catalogued 2, 754 



Pamphlets recatalogued 3 



Charts catalogued 219 



Typed cards added to catalogue 7, 896 



Library of Congress cards added to catalogue 14, 949 



Museum cards copied for union shelf list 13,219 



Freer cards prepared for union catalogue and shelf list, to be added 

 later 7,551 



SPECIAL ACTIVITIES 



A number of special tasks were undertaken by the staff during 

 the year. These were chiefly connected with the reorganization of 

 the library system that has been going on for some time. 



Further progress was made in sorting the miscellaneous material 

 in the west stacks of the Smithsonian Building, and hundreds of 

 publications were found that were lacking in the libraries of the 

 Institution, The art-room collection was checked and a list pre- 

 pared for the National Gallery of Art. The regents' and archives' 

 sets of Smithsonian publications were also checked and, so far as 

 possible, the missing numbers supplied. The natural history col- 

 lection in the National Museum was shifted and rearranged, to 

 make it less crowded and more accessible, and a similar treatment 

 of the technology collection was begun. 



Many publications — in some cases, whole files — not needed by the 

 Institution or its branches, were transferred to other Government 

 libraries. These included 1,935 publications of the United States 

 Geological Survey, 904 of the Canadian Geological Survey, and 

 100 of a miscellaneous character. They likewise included the rolls 

 of 883 maps and atlases that had been stored for many years in 

 the old Museum. 



Four hundred and fifty of the duplicates among the publications 

 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington were sent back to that 

 institution. In return the Carnegie give the Smithsonian many of 

 the volumes that were lacking in its sets. The duplicate publica- 

 tions of the University of California received similar treatment, 

 476 items being returned to the university and a large number sent 

 to the Institution toward completing its files. 



The librarian gave several lectures, on Shakespeare, Virgil, the 

 Nature of Poetry, and the Smithsonian Institution, before various 



