Appendix VI. 



REPORT ON THE LIBRARY. 



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

 library of the Smithsonian Institution for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910 : 



The accessions recorded for the Smithsonian deposit, Library of Congress, 

 numbered 2,G53 volumes, 2,879 parts of volumes, 1,39G pamphlets, and 623 charts, 

 making a total of 7,551 publications. The accession numbers run from 495,195 

 to 500,000. These publications were forwarded to the Library of Congress 

 immediately upon their receipt and entry. In their transmission 270 boxes 

 were required, containing approximately the equivalent of 10,800 volumes. The 

 actual number of pieces sent, including parts of periodicals, pamphlets, and 

 volumes, numbered 36,526. This statement does not, however, include about 

 2,948 parts of serial publications secured in exchange to complete sets and trans- 

 mitted separately. 



The Institution has continued the policy of sending public documents presented 

 to it to the Library of Congress without stamping or entering. The number of 

 publications given above does not include these, nor does it include other publi- 

 cations for the Library of Congress received through the International Exchange 

 Service. 



The libraries of the Smithsonian office, of the Astrophysical Observatory, and 

 the National Zoological Park have received 473 volumes and pamphlets and 253 

 parts of volumes and charts, making a total of 626 publications, and a grand 

 total, including the publications for the Smithsonian deposit, of 8,177. The 

 actual decrease in the number of publications entered for the Smithsonian 

 library is not as great as would at first appear, owing to the fact that in the 

 present report a statement has been made of the number of completed volumes 

 accessioned, rather than, as was formerly the custom, of the number of parts 

 constituting a volume. Special attention has been given to the checking up and 

 completing of the Smithsonian deposit sets of publications of scientific societies 

 and learned institutions of the world, together with the series of scientific 

 periodicals contained in the library. 



The parts of serial publications entered on the card catalogue numbered 

 26,772, and 1,605 slips for completed volumes were made; 277 cards for new 

 periodicals and annuals, together with 418 donor cards and 1,114 catalogue cards 

 for separate publications were made and filed. 



Inaugural dissertations and academic publications were received and acces- 

 sioned from universities at the following places : 



The establishing of new exchanges and the securing of missing parts to com- 

 plete sets of publications in the Smithsonian library required the writing of 



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