60 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1944 
War conditions have made it necessary for the Institution to suspend 
shipments to many foreign countries. The countries to which 
shipments were being made at the close of the year were as follows: 
Eastern Hemisphere: 
Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 
Portugal. 
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 
Union of South Africa. 
India 
Australia. 
New Zealand. 
Western Hemisphere: All countries. 
In the report for 1941 it was stated that the British Museum, Depart- 
ment of Printed Books, had requested the Institution to discontinue 
the sending of the full set of United States governmental documents 
for the duration of the war because of the possibility of destruction 
of the material through bombings of London. About the middle of 
the current year the British Museum asked that the forwarding of 
the Government sets be resumed as numerous requests had been re- 
ceived for information contained in many of the documents. Accord- 
ingly, all accumulations of official documents for the British Museum 
were sent and regular transmissions have since been made. 
FOREIGN DEPOSITORIES OF GOVERNMENTAL DOCUMENTS 
The number of sets of United States official publications received 
for transmission abroad through the International Exchange Service 
is 93 (55 full and 38 partial sets). On account of war conditions it is 
possible at this time to forward only 58 of these sets. The remaining 
35 are being withheld for the duration. 
During the year Iran and Iraq were added to the list of those coun- 
tries receiving partial sets. The depository in Iran is the Ministry 
of Education at Tehran, and in Iraq, Public Library at Baghdad. 
The partial-set depository in Afghanistan has been changed to the 
Library of the Afghan Academy, Kabul. The depository of the 
partial set sent to Bengal has been changed to Library, Bengal Legis- 
lature, Calcutta. 
A complete list of the depositories follows. Under present condi- 
tions, consignments are forwarded only to those countries listed on 
tions, consignments are forwarded only to those countries listed above. 
DEPOSITORIES OF FULL SETS 
ARGENTINA: Direccién de Investigaciones, Archivo, Biblioteca y Legislacién 
Ixtranjera, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto, Buenos Aires. 
