APPENDIX 6. 

 REPORT ON THE LIBRARY. 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the following report on the activi- 

 ties of the library of the Smithsonian Institution during the fiscal 

 year ended June 30, 1918 : 



Conditions abroad have curtailed exchanges to a great extent. 

 Notwithstanding, a large number of foreign publications are being 

 received regularly and the sets on file are up to date. Special atten- 

 tion has been given to exchanges with South American countries, with 

 very gratifying results, and the same can be said of the domestic 

 exchanges. 



There were received during the year 27,212 packages, an increase 

 of 2,920 over the year preceding. Of these, 26,230 were received by 

 mail and 928 through the international exchanges. Correspondence 

 connected therewith amounted to 1,087 letters and 2,725 acknowledg- 

 ments on the regular printed forms. 



SMITHSONIAN LIBRARY. 



Main library. — Publications for the Smithsonian Main Library, 

 after entry on the records, are forwarded to the Smithsonian deposit 

 in the Library of Congress. During the fiscal year 2,773 were acces- 

 sioned, consisting of 2,369 complete volumes, 419 parts of volumes, 

 954 pamphlets, and 88 charts. The accessions numbers were ex- 

 tended from 527,151 to 529,924. 



The cataloguing included 3,331 volumes, 95 charts, and the addi- 

 tion of 1,334 new titles; 1,925 volumes were recatalogued ; 1,050 cards 

 were typewritten, and 4,086 printed cards from the Library of Con- 

 gress, for publications deposited by the Institution, were filed in the 

 catalogue. In accordance with the established policy, the public 

 documents presented to the Smithsonian Institution, numbering 

 3,442, were transferred to the Library of Congress without stamping 

 or recording. 



Dissertations were received from the Universities of Pennsylvania, 

 Johns Hopkins, Konigsberg, Toulouse, Lund, and Breslau, and the 

 technical schools of Dresden and Berlin. 



The securing of exchanges in return for Smithsonian publications 

 and missing parts to complete sets has been continued. Two hundred 

 and twenty want cards for series in the Smithsonian Division at the 

 Library of Congress were considered, and 168 volumes and 389 parts 



