50 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1911. 
There are at present 29 countries with which the immediate exchange of 
the official journal is carried on. To some of these countries two copies of 
the Congressional Record are sent—one to the upper and one to the lower 
house of parliament—the total number transmitted being 34. 
It may be repeated in this connection that the exchange here alluded to is 
separate and distinct from the exchange of official documents which has 
existed between the United States and other countries for many years. It 
is interparliamentary, and provides for the immediate transmission, direct by 
mail, of the official journal as soon as published. 
LIST OF BUREAUS OR AGENCIES THROUGH WHICH EXCHANGES ARE TRANSMITTED. 
The following is a list of bureaus or agencies through which the distribution 
of exchanges is effected. Those in the larger and many in the smaller countries 
forward to the Smithsonian Institution, in return, contributions for distribution 
in the United States: 
Algeria, via France. 
Angola, via Portugal. 
Argentina: Comisién Protectora de Bibliotecas Populares, Reconquista 538, 
Buenos Aires. 
Austria: Kk. K. Statistische Central-Commission, Vienna. 
Azores, via Portugal. 
Barbados: Imperial Department of Agriculture, Bridgetown. 
Belgium: Service Belge des Eehanges Internationaux, Rue du Musée 5, Brus- 
sels. 
Bolivia: Oficina Nacional de HEstadistica, La Paz. 
Brazil: Servico de Permutacdes Internacionaes, Bibliotheca Nacional, Rio de 
Janeiro. 
British Colonies: Crown Agents for the Colonies, London.’ 
British Guiana: Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society, Georgetown. 
British Honduras: Colonial Secretary, Belize. ' 
Bulgaria: Institutions Scientifiques de S. M. le Roi de Bulgarie, Sofia. 
Canary Islands, yia Spain. 
Cape Colony: Government Stationery Department, Cape Town. 
Chile: Servicio de Canjes Internacionales, Biblioteca Nacional, Santiago. 
China: Zi-ka-wei Observatory, Shanghai. 
Colombia: Oficina de Canjes Internacionales y Reparto, Biblioteca Nacional, 
Bogota. 
Costa Rica: Oficina de Depdsito y Canje de Publicaciones, San José. 
Denmark: Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Copenhagen. 
Duteh Guiana: Surinaamsche Koloniale Bibliotheek, Paramaribo. 
Ecuador: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Quito. 
Egypt: Director-General, Survey Department, Giza (Mudiria). 
France: Service Francais des Echanges Internationaux, 110 Rue de Grenelle, 
Paris. 
Germany: Amerika-Institut, Berlin, N. W. 7. 
Great Britain and Ireland: Messrs. William Wesley & Son, 25 Essex Street, 
Strand, London. ; 
Greece: Bibliothéque Nationale, Athens. 
Greenland, via Denmark. 
1This method is employed for communicating with several of the British colonies 
with which no medium is available for forwarding exchanges direct, 
