REPORT OF THE ASSISTxVNT SECRETARY. 47 



EXCHANGES AND THANSPORTATION. 



The operations in the department of exchanges, as reported for ISGl, fallowed 

 a conf^idernblc reduction below those of the previous year. During 1SG2, 

 however, they have fully recovered their usual magnitude, and wliilc the receipts 

 of books and parcels from abroad are nearly equal to the maximum of any 

 previous year, the transmissions have been greater than usual. 



The thanks of the Institution and its correspondents continue to be due to 

 various companies for their great liberality in transporting boxes and parcels 

 free of chaige over their respeciive routes, thereby reducing very materially 

 the expenses of the department of exchanges. The lines deserving of especial 

 mention are the North German Lloyd, betAveen Bremen and New York; the 

 Hamburg and Noav York steamship line; the Canard lines, running from New 

 York; the Panama Railroad Company; the Pacific IMail Steamship Company; 

 the Adams's Express Company ; tlie Hudson Bay Company, «Scc. The magni- 

 tude of the favors thus conferred m:iy be readily understood by stating that a 

 single transmission of packages to Germany during the year, through the North 

 German Lloyd, consisted of 40 boxes of 4:i4 cubic feet, or over ten tons by 

 measurement. 



The Institution is under many obligations for important services rendered in 

 connexion with its exchanges and transportation, to the lion, lliram Barney, 

 collector of customs in New Yoik, and his assistant, I\Ir. George Hillier. Also 

 in San Francisco, to Mr. A. 13. Forbes, and Mr. Samuel Hubbard, of the Pa- 

 cific Mail Steamship Company's service. The foreign agents of the Insti- 

 tution, Dr. Felix Fliigel, of Leipsic; Gustavo Bossange & Co., Paris, and Mr, 

 William Wesley, 2 Queen's lioad Passage, Paternoster How, London, continue 

 to dischargs their duties Avith promptness and etficiency. 



The following tables exhiibit the statistics of the different branches of the 

 system of exchanges : 



A. 



Receipt of hooks, S^t., hij cxcJiange in 1862. 



Volumes : 



Octavo 1,211 



Quarto 348 



Folio 52 



1,611 



Parts of volumes and pamphlets : 



Octavo 2, 441 



Quarto 767 



Folio 161 



3,369 



Maps and charts 55 



Total 5, 035 



Receipts in 1861 2, 886 



Excess in 1862 2, 149 



