62 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1907. 
Statement of United States Government exchanges during the year ending 
June 30, 1907—Continued. 
Packages. | Packages. 
Name of bureau. Name of bureau. 
= ae || | 
for | Sent by— | Recever Sent by— 
Entomological Commission - 3 cpus a a ! Navy Department.....-..-.-- | 5 4 
General Land Office......-..- Bilesocosssene || Office of the Chief of Engi- | 
Geological Survey..........- 723 | Bu2GT|l\) SECT Ses scere cscs es asccesene 38 5 
House of Representatives ...).....---.. 1 || Office of the Chief of Staff... -. 3 21 
Hydrographic Office ........ 55 | 204 ! Office of Indian Affairs.....-. Gilberts 
Hygienic Laboratory........ Ue a es Ordnance Office, War De- 
Interstate Commerce Com- JOEMEBBCKEING 5 oonenngsacocenece I \letacisceoas 
TMEEMOM  deseeddcdbeotacece | 26 | MUA ||| TERE ORNCD sancocassaccsecee 347 | 1, 926 
Library of Congress ........- 4,009 Bieta MSenaterlalbranyieesace esses cece | Bi ener eae 
Life-Saving Service ........- 1 | 68 | Smithsonian Institution.....- 3, 548 | 7,466 
Light-House Board.......... 2 | 144 || Steamboat Inspection Serv- 
National Academy of Sci- | TCO Soe eat een ic Cae eral ee an 1 
ENCES sapien apiece camaca ee 126 7 | Superintendent of  Docu- | 
National Bureau of Stand- Wea eritc ieee e ae eee os Vevey. mane pee 4 
DV OS eee armies eis actetass SO) erect: ] Surgeon-General’s Office -.-.. 190 327 
National Herbarium ........ Shi earn Ropes || Treasury Department -....... 7 7 4 
National Museum ........... 403 634 | WareDepaintimemntisec eects 52 110 
Nautical Almanac Office .... 57 166 || Weather Bureau............-. 120 1, 439 
Naval Observatory .......... 165 757 | POAT Ee eee ee 11,641 ~ 100,114 
As will be seen from the foregoing statement, the number of documents sent 
abroad by the Departments and Bureaus of this Government is, in most instances, 
much greater than the quantity of similar works received in exchange. While 
this may partly be due to the fact that few governments publish so extensively 
as the United States, yet it seems unlikely that the fullest possible exchange 
has been attained, and it is proposed during the coming year to use a part of the 
increase in the exchange appropriation in the employment of an additional 
elerk to assist in carrying on the work of completing and increasing the num- 
ber of foreign government publications received by American governmental 
establishments. 
FOREIGN DEPOSITORIES OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS. 
In accordance with treaty stipulations and under the authority of the Con- 
gressional resolutions of March 2, 1867, and March 2, 1901, setting apart a 
certain number of documents for exchange with foreign countries, there are 
now sent regularly to depositories abroad 53 full sets of United States official 
publications and 80 partial sets. During the past year the Librarian of Con- 
gress, in accordance with the discretion vested in him by the act of 1901, directed 
that the legislative library at Edmonton, Alberta, the national library at Quito, 
Ecuador, and the Panama department of foreign affairs at Panama be added 
to the list of depositories of partial sets. The recipients of full and partial 
sets are as follows: 
DEPOSITORIES OF FULL SETS. 
Argentina: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Buenos Aires. 
Argentina: Biblioteca de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. 
Australia: Library of the Commonwealth Parliament, Melbourne. 
