92 ANNUAL EEPOET SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1915. 



The sending to the Library of Congress of public documents pre- 

 sented to the Smithsonian Institution, without stamping and record- 

 ing, has been continued, and 4,675 were forwarded in this way. 



The accessions for the office library, which includes the Astro- 

 physical Observatory and the National Zoological Park, numbered 

 561 publications, distributed as follows: 351 volumes, 35 parts of 

 volumes, and 40 pamphlets, for the office library; 72 volumes, 11 

 parts of volumes and 25 pamphlets for the Astrophysical Observa- 

 tor}^, and 21 volumes and 6 pamphlets for the National Zoological 

 Park. 



Complete sets of inaugural dissertations and technological publica- 

 tions from 12 universities and technical high schools were received 

 from the following places: Baltimore, Basel, Copenhagen, Delft, 

 Ithaca, Lund, Paris, Philadelphia, Toulouse, and Zurich. 



EXCHANGES. 



The sendings from Europe have been restricted compared with 

 those of former years, but there has been no cessation in the efforts 

 to secure new exchanges and missing parts in the series, and many 

 have been received. The new series added to the library numbered 48, 

 and all of the 387 want cards for the series searched in the Library of 

 Congress were considered and some action taken on each at the 

 Smithsonian Institution, with the result that 82 sets of publications 

 of learned institutions and scientific societies in the Smithsonian 

 division were entirely or partially completed by the supplying of 460 

 parts; in the same way 254 parts of 48 sets were supplied to the 

 periodical division, and for the part of the deposit in the general 

 classification 10 parts of 4 sets. 



Among the more important of these series secured for the Smith- 

 sonian library may be cited the following: 



Australia : 



Sydney, New South Wales. — Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia. 

 Science of Man, 

 Belgium : 



Brussels. — Academie Royale do Belgique. Bulletin, Classe des lettres. 

 Association des industriels de Belgique pour I'etude et la propagation 

 des engins et mesures propres h preserver les ouvriers des accidents du 

 travail. Rapport. 

 St. Nicholas. — Cercle archeologique du pays de Waes. Annales. 

 England : 



London. — Agricultural Economist and Horticultural Review. 



Royal Geographical Society. Geographical .Tournal. 

 Birmingham. — Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society. 

 Report. 

 France : 



Nice. — Association Procincials des architectes frangais. Bulletin. 

 Paris. — Socifite Frangaise de Physique. Resume des communications. 



