58 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1908. 



sent regularly to depositories abroad 54 full sets of United States official pub- 

 lications and 32 partial sets, China having been added during the year to the 

 list of countries receiving full sets and Montenegro and Liberia to the list of 

 those receiving partial sets,- the details concerning which have been given else- 

 where in this report. A list of the recipients of full and partial sets was given 

 in the report for last year and need not be repeated here. 



CORRESPONDENTS. 



The record of exchange correspondents at the close of the year contained 

 60,123 addresses, being an increase of 2,016 over the preceding yeai-. A table 

 showing the number of correspondents in. each country was given in the last 

 report. 



LIST OF BUREAUS OR AGENCIES THROUGH WHICH EXCHANGES ARE TRANSMITTED. 



Following is a list of bureaus or agencies abroad through which the distribu- 

 tion of exchanges is effected. Those in the larger and many in the smaller 

 countries forward to the Smithsonian Institution in return contributions for 

 distribution in the United States. 



Algeria, via France. 



Angola, via Portugal. 



Argentina : Seccion de Deposito, Reparto y Canje de Publicaciones, Biblioteca 



Nacional, Buenos Aires. 

 Austria : K. K. Statistische Central-Commission, Vienna. 

 Azores, via Portugal. 



Barbados: Imperial Department of Agriculture, Bridgetown. 

 Belgium : Service Beige des Echanges Internationaux, Brussels. 

 Bermuda. (Sent by mail.) 

 Bolivia : Oficina Nacional de Inmigracion, Estadistica y Propaganda Geo- 



grafica, La Paz. 

 Brazil : Servigo de Permutagoes Internacionaes, Bibliotheca Nacional, Rio de 



Janeiro. 

 British Colonies : Crown Agents for the Colonies, London.'^ 

 British Guiana : Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society, Bridgetown. 

 British Honduras : Colonial Secretary, Belize. 

 Bulgaria : Institutions et Bibliotheque Scientifiques de S. A. R. le Prince de 



Bulgarie, Sofia. 

 Canada. (Sent by mail.) . ' 



Canary Islands, via Spain. 



Cape Colony : Government Stationery Department, Cape Town. 

 Chile : Servicio de Canjes Internacionales, Biblioteca Nacional, Santiago. 

 China : Zi-ka-wei Observatory, Shanghai. 

 Colombia : Oficina de Canjes Internacionales y Reparto, Biblioteca Nacional, 



Bogota. 

 Costa Rica : Oficina de Deposito y Canje de Publicaciones, San Jose. 

 Cuba. (Sent by mail.) 



Denmark : Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Copenhagen. 

 Dutch Guiana : Surinaamsche Koloniale Bibliotheek, Paramaribo. 

 Ecuador: Ministerio de Relacioues Exteriores, Quito. 

 Egypt: Director-General, Survey Department, Cairo. 

 France: Service Frangais des Echanges Internationaux, Paris. 

 Friendly Islands. (Sent by mail.) 



" This method is employed for communicating with several of the British 

 colonies with which no medium is available for forwarding exchanges direct. 



