Appendix III. 



REPORT OF THE CURATOR OF EXCHANGES FOR THE YEAR ENDING 



JUNE 30, 1894. 



Sir: I have the honor to present the following report upon the operations of the 

 Bureau of International Exchanges for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894. 



It is confined, for the sake of convenient comparison, almost entirely to the pre- 

 sentation of statistics, compiled upon the plan established in 1888. 



The Exchange Service has been conducted during the year under exceptionally dis- 

 advantageous conditions, owing to tlio decrease in the appropriation made by 

 Congress to the Institution for tlie conduct of the exchange operations, and also 

 owing to the fact that some of the Government bureaus transmitting large uumliers 

 of documents were unable at the end of the year to reimburse the Institution, as 

 hitherto, for the expense incurred. 



The actual number of packages received during the year was somewhat less than 

 during the year xirecediug, though the weight was considerably greater. This 

 decrease in the number of packages was due in part to the fiict that toward the 

 close of the fiscal year, no deficiency appropriation having been passed by Congress, 

 it became necessary to restrict the operations of the Exchange Service, and to notify 

 a number of correspondents that it would be impracticable to transmit their 

 exchanges abroad until a further appropriation from Congress became available. A 

 further cause of the decrease was the discontinuance of the transmission in the 

 special Congressional Library exchange of a large number of small pamphlets or 

 orders from the "War Deiiartment, occupying but a page or two each. 



Notwithstanding this fact, it will be seen that 27 more cases wore shipped abroad 

 than during any previous year. 



TABULAR STATEMENT OF THE WORK OF THE BUREAU. 



The work of the Bureau is succinctly given in the annexed table, i>rei)ai*ed in a 

 form adopted in preceding reports : 



Transactions of the Bureau of International Exchanges during the fiscal year 1893-94. 



58 



1 Decrease. 



