AppEenpIx III. 
REPORT ON THE INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES. 
Sig: I have the honor to submit the following report on the operations of the 
International Exchange Service during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911, 
which was prepared under the direction of Mr. C. W. Shoemaker, chief clerk, 
who was in charge of the service from January, 1910, until June 1, 1911. 
The congressional appropriation for the support of the service during 1911 
was $382,200 (the same amount granted for the past three years), and the sum 
collected on account of repayments was $4,754.99, making the total available 
resources for carrying on the system of international exchanges $36,954.99. 
The total number of packages handled during the year was 228,698—an in- 
crease over the number for the preceding year of 7,078. The weight of these 
packages was 560,808 pounds—a gain of 76,124 pounds. For purposes of com- 
parison the number and weight of packages of different classes are indicated 
in the following table: 
Packages. Weight. 
Sent. /Received. Sent. /| Received. 
Pounds. | Pounds. 
United States parliamentary documents sent abroad........... 103 5769) 4) atc 202 =) 1165219) |e oa eacn 
Publications received in return for parliamentary documents...|.....-.--- | UB GY ee camaro 18, 467 
United States departmental documents sent abroad.........-.- Dog O4s eee oe ZIGHGSGNIES ee en 
Publications received in return for departmental documents....|-.......-- CGN aARemceess 18, 837 
Publications from miscellaneous sources sent abroad............| 28,834 |.......... DO, LG57|= ote. coetes 
Publications received from abroad for miscellaneous distribu- 
(HUGO Seer GER C HOS Ee IE rape ADEE He tae Ee a ase mE et) a) ERR 8? Oa SOLSZ4 Oe, iL Ss 134, 434 
ROGAN Se ae ee oe inte cans, Beg Ce ee a ol ale 187, 707 40,991 | 389,070 171,738 
Granditotalee 2252 Se See ae eae es Pet Te ECs & 228, 698 560, 808 
The disparity between the number of packages received and those sent may 
be accounted for, in part, by the fact that many returns for publications sent 
abroad are forwarded to their destinations by mail and not through the exchange 
service. This difference is further due to the fact that whereas packages sent 
are made up in most cases of separate publications, those received contain 
several volumes—in some instances the term “ package” being applied to large 
boxes often containing 100 or more publications, 
By referring to the above statement it will be noted that 66 per cent of the 
work of the office has been conducted in behalf of the United States govern- 
mental establishments, 
Of the 2,380 boxes used in forwarding exchanges to foreign bureaus and 
agencies for distribution (an increase of 347 boxes over 1910), 385 boxes con- 
tained full sets of United States official documents for authorized depositories 
and 1,995 were filled with departmental and other publications for depositories 
of partial sets and for miscellaneous correspondents. 
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