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ANNUAL REPOET SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1917. 



I am pleased to state that the four boxes held at Bahia, Brazil, 

 to which reference was made in the 1915 report, have been released 

 and forwarded to the Government printing works at Pretoria. 



Eeference has previously been made to the custom of the Govern- 

 ment of India to refer requests from establishments in this country 

 for Indian official documents to the exchange service for indorse- 

 ment. The director of the Government Press at Cairo has requested 

 that the Institution take similar action on applications for Egyptian 

 official publications. This request has been granted. 



Of the 1,217 boxes used in forwarding exchanges to foreign agen- 

 cies for distribution during 1917, 170 contained full sets of United 

 States official documents for authorized depositories, and 1,047 were 

 filled with departmental and other publications for depositories of 

 partial sets and for miscellaneous correspondents. The number of 

 boxes sent to each foreign country and the dates of transmission are 

 shown in the following table : 



Consignments of cxclianges for foreign countries. 



Country. 



Argentina 



Barbados 



Bolivia 



Brazil 



British Colonies. 



British Guiana. . 



Canada 



Chile 



China 



Colombia 



Costa Eica 



Cuba 



Denmark 



Ecuador 



Egypt 



France 



Number 

 of boxes. 



Germany 



Great Britain and Ireland. 



Greece 



Guatemala. 



Haiti 



Honduras.. 

 India 



Italy. 



Jamaica. 

 Japan... 



Pate of transmission. 



43 



1 



2 

 25 



8 



2 



16 

 19 

 26 

 33 

 12 

 4 



20 



4 



8 



123 



48 

 250 



7 

 2 

 4 

 2 

 30 



90 



5 

 SO 



July 23, Sept. 13, Nov. 15, 1916: Jan. 13, Mar. 20, June 8, 1917. 



May 28, 1917. 



Aug. 29, 1916; Mar. 31, 1917. 



July 25, Sept. 14, Nov. 15, 1916; Jan. 15, Mar. 28, June 9, 1917. 



July 19, Aug. 3, 23, Sept. 11, Oct. 9, Nov. 1, 24, Dec. 20, 1916; 



Feb. 7, Apr. 14, 1917. 

 Sept. 21, 1916; Feb. 16, 1917. 

 Sept. 25, Dec. 18, 1916; Feb. 17, May 17, 1917. 

 July 26, Sept. 16, Nov. 16, 1916; Jan. 16, Mar. 29, June 11, 1917. 

 Sept. 5, Oct. 25, Nov. 28, 1916; Feb. 8, Mar. 8, May 23, 1917. 

 July 16, Oct. 7, Nov. 12, Dec. 13, 1916; May 19, 1917. 

 Aug. 12, Oct. 25, 1916; Jan. 17, Mar. 30, Apr. 6, June 13, 1917. 

 Sept. 25, Dec. 18, 1916; Feb. 17, May 17, 1917. 

 Aug. 9, Sept. 29, 1916; Jan. 6, Mar. 12, May 21, 1917. 

 Aug. 3, 1916; Apr. 10,1917. 

 Aug. 11, 1916; May 16, 1917. 

 July 10, Aug. 18, Oct. 12, Nov. 14, 1916; Jan. 10, Mar. 21, May 9, 



1917. 

 Dec. 16, 1916. 

 July 20, Aug. 3, 23, Sept. 11, Oct. 9, Nov. 1, 24, Dec. 20, 1916; 



Feb. 7, Apr. 11, 18, Jime 6, 1917. 

 Aug. 14, Nov. 9, 1916. 

 Aug. 30, 1916; Apr. 6, 1917. 

 Sept. 25, Dec. 18, 1916; Feb. 17, May 17, 1917. 

 Aug. 30, 1916; Apr. 4, 1917. 

 July 19, Aug. 3, 23, Sept. 11, Oct. 9, Nov. 1, 24, Dec. 20, 1916; 



Feb. 7, Apr. 14, 1917. 

 July 6, Aug. 4, Sept. 22, Nov. 10, Dec. 23, 1916; Jan. 20, Apr. 20, 



June 4, 1917. 

 Aug. 29, 1916; Feb. 9, May 24, 1917. 

 July 7, Aug. 16, Nov. 28, 1916; Jan. 19, Mar. 2. May 13, 1917. 



