REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



57 



Quarto 756 



Folio 88 



2,540 



Maps and charts 40 



Total 3,602 



Being an increase over the year 1858 of 1,062 volumes and parts 

 of volumes. The number of separate donations amounted to 1,252. 



It will be remembered that this does not include the volumes pur- 

 chased for the current researches and operations of the Institution, 

 or for the completion of such series of transactions and periodicals as 

 could not otherwise be obtained. 



B. 



Showing the statistics of foreign exchanges of the Smithsonian Institution 



in 1859. 



