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REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



The great increase in the number and bulk of packages of books 

 sent abroad during the period reported on is owing to several causes. 

 Among these may be mentioned the fact that the table embraces the 

 statistics of three different transmissions, rendered necessary by the 

 accumulation of materials in the Smithsonian building. A large pro- 

 portion of the works sent consisted of such publications of the 

 United States government as the Pacific Railroad Report, the Mexi- 

 can Boundary Report, the Report on Commercial Relations, the Coast 

 Survey Report, &c. 



Of the Pacific Railroad Report alone, over one hundred sets were 

 sent, in behalf of the War Department, to the principal public libra- 

 ries and societies in Europe, and more than three hundred copies of 

 the Coast Survey Report to similar institutions. The Patent Office 

 exchanges with parties in Europe also occupied a very large bulk. 



Packages received by the Smithsonian Institution from parties in America 

 for foreign distribution in 1859. 



Albany, N. Y — 



Professor J. Hall...... . 



Boston — 



American Academy of Arts and Sciences 



Society of Natural History 



CanAridge, Mass. — 



American Association for the Advancement of Science 



Professor Gray . 



Charleston, S. C. — 



Elliott Society of Natural History 



Columbia, Mo. — 



Professor Swallow 



Columbus, Ohio — 



State Agricultural Society 



Des Moines, Iowa — 



State of Iowa 



Georgetown, D. C. — 



College . 



New Haven, Conn. — 



American Journal of Science . . 



American Oriental Society.. 



Professor J. D. Dana 



Yale College 



Little Rock, Ark. — 



State of Arkansas 



New York — 



New York Lyceum of Natural History 



Philadelphia — 



Academy of Natural Sciences 



American Philosophical Society 



Isaac Lea . 



Dr. Joseph Leidy 



W. Sharswood 



Providence, R. I. — 



State of Rhode Island 



Number of 

 packages. 



08 



77 

 40 



64 



15 



27 



17 



100 



193 



■ 6 



12 

 19 



20 

 2 



800 



74 



325 



132 



134 



30 



30 



