48 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. 



library, and comprising many works of the greatest value. Another 

 important accession is a nearly complete series of the " Proceedings of 

 the Zoological Society of London." This gift was received so late in 

 the fiscal year that it has been impossible to enter and catalogue the 

 books. When this can be done, most of them will be assigned to the 

 sectional library of Mollusks. 



Apart from the regular exchanges, the following donations to the 

 library are also worthy of notice : 



From Dr. Paul Haupt, Baltimore, 44 pamphlets on oriental subjects; 

 from Prof. P. H. Carpenter, Eton College, England, 11) pamphlets, sci- 

 entific papers by his distinguished father; from Mr. John Murdoch, 

 Washington, 18 volumes, 2 pamphlets; from Prof. Alpheus Hyatt, 

 Boston, 12 pamphlets. 



During the year 7,583 books were borrowed from the library. 



Ninety-four persons are now authorized under the regulations to 

 draw from the Museum library, and of these seventy five are also au- 

 thorized to obtain books irom the library of Congress through the Mu- 

 seum library. During the year 245 orders were sent to the library of 

 Congress. 



The method of keeping the records of loans and returns of books, re- 

 ferred to in a previous report, has been used throughout the year with 

 complete satisfaction. 



The card-catalogue by authors has been continued, and 1,442 titles 

 have been added to it during the year. 



Through the kindness of the librarian of Congress, an order was ob- 

 tained for binding 300 volumes of the books belonging to the Smith- 

 sonian deposit in the Museum library. These books were therefore 

 sent to the Government bindery on June 20, 1889. 



The work of covering and arranging the large collection of pamphlets 

 has been continued, whenever the pressure of routine work would allow. 



No material change has been made in the force employed in the 

 library since the last report. 



Sectional Libraries. 



The regular inspection of the sectional libraries by the librarian 

 was begun May 22 and completed June 7. Since the last report, the 

 name of the section of archaeology has been changed to Prehistoric 

 Anthropology, and a new sectional library, that of Oriental Archaeol- 

 ogy, in charge of Dr. Cyrus Adler, Assistant Curator of the Section of 

 Oriental Antiquities, has been established. The Assistant Secretary 

 has commenced the organization of his sectional library, that of Admin- 

 istration. 



The following is the result of the inspection : 



Administration. — (In process of organization.) Inspected May 28, 

 Contained 30 volumes and 1 pamphlet. 



