Appendix VI. 



REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 



30, 1901. 



Sir: I have the honor to present herewith the report of the operations 

 of the library of the Smithsonian Institution for the fiscal year ending June 

 30, 1901. 



The most considerable portion of office work is that connected with the 

 Smithsonian deposit in the Library of Congress. 



The following table shows the number of volumes, parts of volumes, 

 pamphlets, and charts recorded in the accession books of the Smithsonian 

 deposit, Library of Congress, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901: 



The accession numbers run from 431972 to 438892. 



In ever-increasing volume the operations of the library, like those of the 

 International Exchanges, look to the strengthening of the Library of Con- 

 gress. All books, pamphlets, charts, and completed volumes of period- 

 icals arc accessioned and recorded on cards as a permanent record file, 

 which both serves as a ledger account with learned societies and establish- 

 ments and as a catalogue of the Smithsonian deposit. The greater part of 

 these publications are then sent to the Library of Congress, amounting 

 during the past year to 192 boxes, 7 bags, and 30 packages, which are esti- 

 mated to have contained the equivalent of 9,000 octavo volumes, this being 

 a sending to the Library of Congress independent of that forwarded by 

 the International Exchanges. 



The additions to the libraries of the Secretary, the Office, and the Astro- 

 physical Observatory number 374 volumes, pamphlets, and charts, and 

 2,058 parts of volumes, making a total of 2,432, and a grand total of 30,566. 

 ( )n the card catalogue of serial publications about 30,000 entries were made, 

 of which 300 required new title cards. 



The following universities have sent inaugural dissertations and academic 

 publications: Albany, New York; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Baltimore, Mary- 

 land; Basel; Berlin; Bonn; Breslau; Czernowitz; Erlangen; Giesen; Frie- 

 burg; Greifswald; Halle a. S. ; Heidelberg; Helsingfors; Ithaca, New 

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