REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 35 
mit further improvements in the service and renewed exertions to 
procure larger returns of government publications from abroad for 
the Library of Congress and the several Departments and Bureaus 
of the Government. 
The Smithsonian Institution, through its system of exchanges, is 
in correspondence with 58,107 establishments and individuals, 46,514 
of which are exterior to the borders of the United States. _As will be 
seen from a perusal of the table in the full report on the exchanges 
in the appendix, these correspondents are scattered throughout the 
world, and it may be said that there is no place, however remote, 
which does not profit by the service. 
Under the Congressional resolutions of March 2, 1867, and March 
2, 1901, setting apart a certain number of documents for exchange 
with foreign governments, there are now sent regularly to deposi- 
tories abroad 53 full sets of United States official publications and 30 
partial sets, the governments of Ecuador, Panama, and Alberta, 
Canada, having been added to the depositories of partial sets during 
the past year. 
In order to prevent loss of publications intended for Government 
establishments, special attention has been given to foreign consign- 
ments of books arriving at the various United States custom-houses 
incorrectly or insufficiently addressed. During the past year these 
efforts have resulted in the clearing of a number of consignments 
which might otherwise have gone astray. 
The work of increasing the office collection of directories and other 
books of addresses has continued during the year, and has resulted in 
the accumulation of a very creditable assemblage of such publications. 
I am gratified to state that through the efforts of Dr. Eypaldo 
Bassier, a member of the Greck Parliament, an arrangement has been 
effected whereby all exchanges for Greece may now be forwarded to 
the National Library at Athens for distribution, instead of limiting 
the consignments, as formerly, to publications intended for Govern- 
ment institutions or individuals connected with them. This arrange- 
ment will enable the Institution to make more frequent transmissions. 
Recently a communication was received from Dr. F. Bonola Bey, 
secretary-general of the Khedivial Geographical Society in Cairo, 
stating that on account of absence from Egypt it would be necessary 
for him to discontinue the distribution of exchanges for the Institu- 
tion; adding, however, that the director-general of the survey de- 
partment at Cairo would take charge of the work. A letter from the 
director-general has since been received placing the services of the 
department at the disposal of the Institution. Consignments will 
therefore be sent to the survey department in the future. 
Transmissions to Bulgaria, which were temporarily suspended on 
account of the death of Dr. Paul Leverkiihn, who attended to the 
