APPENDIX 6. 
REPORT ON THE LIBRARY. 
Sir: I have the honor to present the following report upon the 
work of the Library of the Smithsonian Institution and its branches 
during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914: 
It is with deep regret that the library records the death, on June 
25, 1914, of Dr. Frederick William True, assistant secretary of the 
Smithsonian Institution in charge of library and exchanges. 
ACCESSIONS. 
The additions to the library are received, with few exceptions, in 
exchange for the publications of the Institution or by gift. There 
were received during the year a total of 32,964 packages of publica- 
tions, about 90 per cent of which came by mail and the balance 
through the International Exchange Service. The correspondence 
incident thereto aggregated about 2,000 written letters and 5,883 
printed forms of acknowledgment. 
There was catalogued, accessioned, and forwarded to the Smith- 
sonian Deposit in the Library of Congress a total of 32,195 pieces, as 
follows: 3,765 volumes and 1,729 parts of volumes, 5,755 pamphlets, 
20,603 periodicals, and 343 charts. In addition 1,062 parts of serials 
were received to complete imperfect sets. The accession entries were 
from 513,027 to 517,776. 
There was also transferred to the Library of Congress without 
being stamped and recorded a total of 7,464 public documents pre- 
sented to the Institution. 
The accessions to the office library, the Astrophysical Observatory, 
and the National Zoological Park amounted to 1,165 publications, 
which were distributed as follows: 631 volumes, 93 parts of volumes, 
46 pamphlets, and 1 chart were recorded for the office library; 106 
volumes, 33 parts of volumes, and 212 pamphlets for that of the 
Astrophysical Observatory; and 39 volumes and 4 pamphlets for the 
National Zoological Park. This large increase over the previous 
year was due in part to the addition of nearly 100 books for the 
employees’ library from the estate of Miss Lucy Hunter Baird and 
also to books acquired for the use of the Langley Aerodynamical 
Laboratory. 
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