REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 47 
the Imperial Library at Tokyo. The regular series of official documents, as 
well as all publications for distribution in Japan, are therefore now forwarded 
to that library. 
An application received by the Institution from the under secretary to the 
Government of the United Provinces of- Agra and Oudh, Allahabad, India, for 
copies of such United States official publications as might be of interest to it 
was favorably acted upon by the Library of Congress, and that Government was 
added to the list of those countries receiving partial sets of governmental 
documents. The first shipment, consisting of six boxes, was forwarded to 
the under secretary on October 11, 1910. 
Two cases forwarded from Washington in October, 1919, containing exchanges 
for miscellaneous addresses in New South Wales, were destroyed in transit 
to that country, the steamship by which the consignment was transmitted 
having been burned at sea. The senders of the packages contained in these 
cases were communicated with, and it is gratifying to state that it was possible 
for most of them to supply copies of the lost publications. 
The work inaugurated in 1908 of actively seeking returns from foreign 
countries for the exchanges sent to them by this Government has resulted dur- 
ing the year in the acquisition of important collections of publications for the 
Library of Congress and for several other establishments of the Government. 
About 10,000 foreign governmental documents of a statistical character, re- 
turned by the Library of Congress as duplicates, have been stored for some 
time in the Smithsonian Institution. These books were arranged and listed 
during the year under the direction of the assistant librarian, while the 
Exchange Service, through which the documents were received from abroad, 
provided the extra clerical assistance required. Upon completion of this work 
most of the documents were forwarded to the New York Public Library to 
complete its series of foreign governmental publications. 
FOREIGN DEPOSITORIES OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENTAL 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 regu'arly to depositories abroad 55 full sets of United States official 
publications and 34 partial sets, the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh 
having been added during the year to the list of countries receiving 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. 
Austria: K. K. Statistische Central-Commission, Vienna. 
Baden: Universitats-Bibliothek, Freiburg. 
Bavaria: Konigliche Hof- und Staats-Bibliothek, Munich. 
Belgium: Bibliothéque Royale, Brussels. 
Brazil: Bibliotheca Nacional, “Rio de Janeiro. 
Canada: Parliamentary Library, Ottawa. 
Cape Colony: Government Stationery Department, Cape Town. 
Chile: Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional, Santiago. 
China: American-Chinese Publication Exchange Department, Shanghai Bureau 
of Foreign Affairs, Shanghai. 
Colombia: Biblioteca Nacional, Bogota. 
Costa Rica: Oficina de Depésito y Canje de Publicaciones, San José, 
