Appendix VI. 



REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 



Sir: I have the honor to present the following report on the ojierations of the 

 library of the Sniithsdnian Institntion for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1904. 



The number of pubUeations received and recorded in the accession books of the 

 Smithsonian deposit, Library of Congress, is as follows: 



Volumes 



Parts of volumes 



Pamphlets 



Charts 



Total 



Quarto or Octavo or fr„.oi 

 larger. smaller. ^"'*'- 



526 



10, 2% 



623 



1,760 

 6, 022 

 4,526 



2,286 



16,318 



5,149 



215 



23, 968 



The accession numbers run from 452466-460376. 



A few of these publications have been temporarily held at the Institution for the use 

 of the staff, but the larger number have been sent direi-t to the Library of Congress. 

 About 355 boxes and 18 packages were used in transmitting the sendings to the 

 Library of Congress, and they are estimated to have amounted to the equivalent of 

 14,920 octavo volumes. This does not include a large number of public documents 

 presented to the Institution and transmitted without being recorded. 



The selecting and sending to the Library of Congress of volumes and parts of vol- 

 umes belonging to the Smithsonian deposit wliich had been held at the Institution 

 and Museum in the past has been carried on in connection with the other work of 

 the library, and while a large number have been sent up there still remain from 

 last year many volumes ready for checking on the accession books. No separate 

 count has been kept of these sendings, and they are included in the above estimate. 

 The libraries of the Secretary, Office, and Astrophysical Observatory have received 

 during the year 337 volumes, pamphlets and charts, and 2,048 parts of vjlumes, 

 making a total of 2,385, and a grand total, including books for the Smithsonian 

 deposit, of 26,353. 



The parts of serial publications that were entered on the card catalogue numbered 

 24,126. Six thousand slips for completed volumes were made, and about 510 cards 

 for new periodicals and annuals were added to the permanent record from tiie 

 periodical-reconling desk. 



Inaugural dissertations and academic publications were received from universities 

 at the following places: 



Halle. 



Heidelberg. 



Ilelsingfors. 



Ithaca (Cornell). 



Jena. 



Kiel. 



Konigsberg. 



Lafayette (Purdue). 



Leipsie. 



Louvain. 



Marburg. 



New York (Columbia). 



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Baltimore (Johns Hop- 

 kins). 

 Basel. 

 Berlin. 

 Bern. 

 Bonn. 

 Breslau. 

 Erlangen. 

 Freiburg. 

 G lessen. 

 Geneva. 

 Greifswald. 



Paris. 



Philadelphia (University 



of I'ennsylvania). 

 Rost<^)ck. 

 St. Petersburg. 

 Toulouse. 

 Tubingen. 

 Utrecht. 

 Wurzburg. 

 Zurich. 



