REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



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The following table shows the number of specimens distributed from 

 the various departments of the Museum during the year ending June 

 30,1892: 



LIBRAE Y. 



Mr. N. P. Scudder, assistant librarian, has furnished the following 

 statement in regard to the operations of the Museum library during 

 the year: 



The number of publications added to the library is 11,892 (693 vol- 

 umes of more than 100 pages, 1,642 pamphlets, and 8,486 parts of 

 regular serials). Of these, 297 volumes, 771 pamphlets, and 6,363 parts 

 of serials have been retained for the use of the Museum from the 

 accessions of the Smithsonian Institution, the remainder being obtained, 

 as usual, by gift, exchange, and purchase. 



During the year, 6,094 books were borrowed from the library, of 

 whieh 1,832 had been returned at the close of the year. The books 

 assigned to the sectional libraries art* counted with those borrowed, 

 hence the great excess of these over those returned. During the year, 

 243 orders for books were sent to the Library of Congress. There have 

 been added 2,235 titles to the card-catalogue by authors, and 1,989 

 cards were added to the subject-catalogue, making a total of 3,827 

 cards in this catalogue. 



SECTIONAL LIBRARIES. 



The designations of the sectional libraries now organized, and the 

 number of books assigned to each, are as follows: 



Administration. — 111 volumes. 74 parts, and si pamphlets. 

 Aeronautics. — 3 volumes and 29 parts. 

 Astronomy. — 63 volumes, 522 parts, and l!i pamphlets. 

 Birds. — 589 volumes, 155 parts, and 56 pamphlets. 

 Editor. — 656 volumes, 229 parts, and 16 pamphlets. 

 Ethnology. — 379 volumes, 99 parts, aud i'!> pamphlets. 

 Fishes. — 52 volumes, 19 parts, and In pamphlets. 

 Geology. — 717 volumes, 169 parts, and 1.').". pamphlets. 



