Appendix VL 

 REPORT ON THE LIBRARY. 



Sir: I linve the honor to present the following report on the operations of the 

 lihrnry of the Smithsonian Institution for the tiscal year ending June ?>0, 190G: 



There have heen recorded as accessions to the Smithsonian deposit in the 

 Library of Congress 1,754 volumes, 14,192 parts of volumes, 4,250 pamphlets, and 

 522 charts, making a total of 20,718 publications ; extending the accession num- 

 bers from 408,087 to 475.178. A few of these publications have been held, being 

 immediately necessary for reference in connection with the scientific work of 

 the Institution, but the greater part was sent direct to the Library of Congress. 

 The publications sent to the Library of Congress were transmitted in 293 boxes, 

 and are estimated to have amounted to an equivalent of 11,720 volumes, exclu- 

 sive of public documents presented to the Institution and forwarded to the 

 Library of Congress at once without stamping or recording, as well as public 

 documents or other gifts to the Library of Congress received through the Inter- 

 national Exchange Service. 



The selecting and sending to the Library of Congress of volumes and parts of 

 volumes that had been held for the use of the staff in the past years have been 

 continued as far as the current work would allow. 



The libraries of the Secretary, Office Astrophysical Observatory, and Na- 

 tional Zoological Park have received 542 volumes, pamphlets, and charts, and 

 1,832 parts of volumes, making a total of 2,374, and a grand total, including 

 books for the Smithsonian deposit and the Watts de Peyster Collection, of 

 24,32(5. 



The parts of serial publications that were entered on the card catalogue num- 

 bered 25,006. One thousand five hundred and fifty-seven slips for completed 

 volumes were made, and 000 cards for new periodicals and annuals were added 

 to the permanent record from the periodical recording desk. 



Inaugural dissertations and academic publications were received from uni- 

 versities at the following places : 



Baltimore (Johns Hopkins). 



Basel. 



Bern. 



Breslau. 



Erlangen. 



Freiburg. 



Giessen. 



Greifswald. 



Halle a. S. 



Heidelberg. 



Helsingfors. 



Ithaca (Cornell). 



Jena. 



Jurjew (Dorpat). 



Kazan. 



Kiel. 

 Leipzig. 

 Marburg. 



New York (Columbia). 

 Paris. 

 Rostock. 

 St. Petersburg. 

 Toulouse. 

 Tubingen. 

 Utreciit. 



Washington, D. C. (Catholic Univer- 

 sity of America). 

 Wurtzburg. 

 Zurich. 



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