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to include the indexing of papers in periodicals and proceedings of aeronautical 

 .societies, together with books and separate pamphlets on the subject. The 

 work of indexing is nearing completion. 



The American Historical Association. — The exchange of the annual reports of 

 the American Historical Association from the allotment agreed upon for that 

 purpose was continued, with the result that a large number of publications of 

 historical societies throughout the world have been received. 



The museum librartj. — The National Museum library has continued to 

 receive from Prof. Otis T. Mason and Dr. C. D. White many gifts of scientific 

 publications which are of great value to the museum library in completing sets 

 and filling in the series of authors' separates. Mr. William Schaus has added 

 materially to the books in the sectional library of the division of insects, which 

 are needed in the work on his collections of insects presented to the museum. 

 Dr. Charles W. Richmond has presented another installment of books and 

 pamphlets, one of the collections in this gift being the Thunberg dissertations, 

 which are for the most part rare and difficult to obtain. He is making efforts 

 to bring together a complete set. 



The library was unfortunate in losing by resignation the capable and valued 

 services of Miss Margaret C. Dyer, who had been assistant in the museum 

 library for a number of years. 



The library of the museum has benefited by the plan adopted by the Interna- 

 tional Catalogue of Scientific Literature of sending to authors lists of their 

 scientific writings that have been entered in the catalogue and requesting any 

 that have not been cited, as the larger number of responses received are in the 

 form of separates from periodicals, journals, etc., which are no longer desired 

 for the Smithsonian deposit. 



In the museum library there are now 33,564 volumes, 52,112 unbound papers, 

 and 108 manuscripts. The additions during the year consisted of 3,257 books, 

 4,470 pamphlets, and 247 parts of volumes. There were catalogued 1,000 books, 

 of which 39 belonged to the Smithsonian library ; 2,257 complete volumes of 

 periodicals, and 4,056 pamphlets, of which 26 belonged to the Smithsonian 

 library. 



Attention has been given to the preiiaratiou of volumes for binding, with the 

 result that 1,086 books were sent to the government bindery. 



The number of books, periodicals, and pamphlets borrowed from the general 

 library amounted to 39,556, including 10,314, which were assigned to the sec- 

 tional libraries. This does not include, however, the large number of books 

 consulted in the library but not withdrawn. 



The sectional libraries established in the museum have remained the same, the 

 complete list now standing as follows : 



Administration. 



Administrative Assistant. 



Anthropology. 



Biology. 



Birds. 



Botany. 



Comparative Anatomy. 



Editor. 



Ethnology. 



Fishes. 



Geology. 



History. 



Insects. 



Mammals. 



Marine Invertebrates. 



Materia Medica. 



Mesozoic fossils. 



Mineralogy. 



Mollusks. 



Oriental Archeology. 



Paleobotany. 



Parasites. 



Photography. 



Physical Anthropology. 



Prehistoric Archeology. 



Reptiles. 



Invertebrate Paleontology. 



Superintendent. 



Taxidermy. 



Technology. 



