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Zoological Park. There were also numerous additions to the library 
of the Bureau of American Ethnology, which is separately adminis- 
tered. It is estimated that the equivalent of 11,000 volumes were 
transmitted to the Library of Congress besides public documents and 
other gifts to that Library transmitted through the International 
Exchange service, and such public documents as were presented to 
the Institution and sent direct to the Library. Two hundred and fifty 
new periodicals were added to the receipts and some 600 defective 
series were partially or entirely filled up. The work of the Inter- 
national Catalogue has brought a considerable number of authors’ 
separates to the Library. Efforts have been made to increase the 
series of address books in the office of the International Exchanges 
service. The estate of S. P. Langley turned over to the Institution © 
his scientific library, which has been divided up among the various 
divisions. The Gen. Watts de Peyster library of Napoleon and other 
subjects was increased about 288 volumes. It is with regret that 
I record the death of General de Peyster, who was a well-known 
collector and had been for many years a generous donor to the 
Institution. 
The quarters of the library both in the Institution and Museum 
are entirely inadequate, and no relief seems possible until the com- 
pletion of the new building for the National Museum, when it is 
hoped that a large part of the main floor of the Smithsonian build- 
ing can be devoted to library purposes, forming a central library for 
the Institution and all its branches, though of course the sectional 
library system will be continued as heretofore. 
PRESERVATION OF ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES. 
The Institution has for many years taken a deep interest in pre- 
serving archeological objects on the public domain from vandals and 
relic hunters and making them accessible under proper regulations 
to scientific institutions and colleges. A law covering this subject 
was approved on June 8, 1906. Under the terms of this act uniform 
regulations for its administration were to be prepared by the Secre- 
taries of the Interior, War, and Agriculture. At the request of the 
Departments, the Institution participated in several conferences of 
representatives of the three Departments looking to the preparation 
_ of such rules, which were promulgated on December 28, 1906. A 
little later some dissatisfaction was expressed with these regulations 
by archeologists, and at their request I invited the three Departments 
to reconsider the regulations. Accordingly, further conferences were 
held by representatives of the Departments, of the Institution, and of 
the Archeological Institute of America, resulting in the understand- 
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