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mond has continued to contribute to the library, and a number of rare scientific 
works not to be found elsewhere in the city have been received from him. 
The library of the Museum has also benefited by the plan adopted by the 
International 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 the 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 30,307 volumes, 47,642 unbound papers, 
and 108 manuscripts. The additions during the year consisted of 2,581 books, 
3,567 pamphlets, and 111 parts of volumes. There were catalogued 1,301 books, 
of which 87 belonged to the Smithsonian library, and 3,567 pamphlets, of which 
54 belonged to the Smithsonian library, and 138,215 parts of periodicals, of 
which 658 belonged to the Smithsonian library. 
In connection with the entering of separates and periodicals, 721 memoranda 
were made reporting volumes and parts missing in the sets, together with a 
few titles of publications that were not represented in the library. The result 
of this work was the completing or partial filling up of 550 sets of publications. 
Attention has been given to the preparation of volumes for binding, with the 
result that 1,020 books were sent to the Government bindery. 
The number of books, periodicals, and pamphlets borrowed from the general 
library amounted to 34,859, including 9,397, 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consulted in the library but not withdrawn.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. History. Photography. 
Administrative assistant. Insects. Physical anthropology. 
Anthropology. Mammals. Prehistoric archeology. 
Biology. Marine invertebrates. Reptiles. 
Birds. Materia medica. Stratigraphie paleontol- 
Botany. Mesozoic fossils. ogy. 
Comparative anatomy. Mineralogy. Superintendent. 
Editor. Mollusks. Taxidermy. 
Ethnology. Oriental archeology. Technology. 
Fishes. Paleobotany. 
Geology. ; Parasites. 
In the following table are summarized all the accessions during the year for 
the Smithsonian deposit, for the libraries of the office, Astrophysical Obsery- 
atory, United States National Museum, and National Zoological Park. That of 
the Bureau of American Ethnology is not included, as it is separately ad- 
ministered : 
Smithsonian deposit in the Library of Congress______________________ 25, 486 
Office, Astrophysical Observatory, International Exchanges_____________ 2, 349 
Wiitisnd cebeystereco lect Ones eens oe ee a ee 288 
United eStatese National Museum libraryss- 222) = ee 6, 259 
MN eS Se ee ee Fh ON eae a ee ee re eee ee 34, 382 
Respectfully submitted. 
Cyrus ADLER, 
Assistant Secretary, in Charge of Library and Hxchanges. 
Dr. CHARLES D. WALtcorTT, 
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 
