REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 101 
tained during his lifetime a number of volumes, and after his death 
his daughter, Miss Lucy Hunter Baird, continued to add to these 
books. In her will, which was probated after her death last year, 
she left to the Museum this collection, which numbered 750 volumes. 
DALL LIBRARY. 
A number of books relating to mollusks was presented to the 
Museum in 1892 by Dr. William Healey Dall, and he has added to 
this gift from year to year. The number of titles is now about 7,500, 
and these, with a comparatively small number of books from other 
‘sources, make up the sectional library of the division of mollusks. 
During the past year Dr. Dall has added about 50 titles. The cata- 
loguing of these books was completed during the past year under 
Dr. Dall’s personal direction. 
TECHNOLOGICAL SERIES. 
Periodicals entered on the records of the technology library have 
numbered 476 complete volumes, 6,096 parts of volumes, and the new 
periodical cards made for these have been 331. The cataloguing for 
the year numbered 256 volumes and 747 pamphlets, requiring 1,187 
separate cards. The total number of cards typewritten, periodical and 
catalogue, is 1,518. In addition, about 500 volumes and 8,000 pam- 
phlets have been placed on the shelves under their respective class 
numbers and will be incorporated later in the records which are now 
in preparation. 
Books and pamphlets loaned during the year in addition to those 
from the general library numbered 188 volumes and 290 single pam- 
phlets and parts of periodicals, making a total number of 478 pub- 
lications. About 360 books have been consulted in the reading room, 
and about 3,000 books and periodicals have been transferred to the 
various sections of mineral technology, textiles, and graphic arts, 
and section cards made for these. 
The science depository set of cards from the Library of Congress 
-was received last year, and about 28,000 have been filed alphabeti- 
cally. About the same number remain to be filed before the set is in 
alphabetical order. When completed it will be a useful index to the 
scientific resources of Washington. The catalogue has been com- 
pleted for all the books in the reading room and about two-thirds of 
_ the east gallery, leaving the north gallery and the remainder of the | 
east gallery still to be done. 
SECTIONAL LIBRARIES. 
The sectional libraries of the Museum have been receiving refer- 
ence publications for which receipts have been given and filed in 
