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  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  194 
  3 
  

  

  The 
  index 
  of 
  foreign 
  geographical 
  illustrations 
  begun 
  last 
  year 
  as 
  

   a 
  special 
  war 
  service 
  and 
  originally 
  planned 
  to 
  cover 
  only 
  the 
  publi- 
  

   cations 
  of 
  the 
  Institution 
  itself 
  was 
  later 
  enlarged, 
  at 
  the 
  request 
  of 
  

   the 
  Smithsonian 
  War 
  Committee, 
  to 
  include 
  files 
  of 
  selected 
  journals 
  

   on 
  special 
  subjects 
  containing 
  incidental 
  geographical 
  illustrations 
  

   likely 
  to 
  be 
  overlooked 
  in 
  any 
  routine 
  search 
  for 
  pictures. 
  The 
  selec- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  these 
  journals 
  was 
  made 
  by 
  the 
  scientific 
  staff 
  of 
  the 
  Institution 
  

   and 
  the 
  indexing 
  was 
  done 
  in 
  their 
  offices, 
  the 
  library 
  serving 
  as 
  the 
  

   coordinator 
  and 
  keeper 
  of 
  the 
  file, 
  which 
  now 
  contains 
  more 
  than 
  

   12,000 
  entries. 
  

  

  As 
  another 
  aid 
  to 
  the 
  war 
  agencies 
  in 
  making 
  use 
  of 
  the 
  library, 
  

   the 
  librarian 
  prepared 
  a 
  brief 
  account 
  of 
  its 
  resources, 
  mimeographed 
  

   copies 
  of 
  which 
  were 
  distributed 
  to 
  key 
  personnel 
  in 
  Washington 
  and 
  

   elsewhere 
  by 
  the 
  Ethnogeographic 
  Board. 
  

  

  The 
  cordial 
  response 
  of 
  the 
  whole 
  Institution 
  to 
  the 
  library's 
  plea 
  

   for 
  books 
  in 
  the 
  Nation-wide 
  Victory 
  book 
  drive 
  for 
  men 
  and 
  women 
  

   in 
  the 
  armed 
  services, 
  is 
  worthy 
  of 
  record. 
  More 
  than 
  500 
  fine 
  clean 
  

   copies 
  of 
  highly 
  readable 
  contemporary 
  books 
  were 
  contributed. 
  

  

  It 
  may 
  be 
  of 
  interest 
  to 
  note 
  here 
  the 
  transfer 
  to 
  the 
  Library 
  of 
  

   Congress 
  of 
  an 
  uncataloged 
  collection 
  of 
  miscellaneous 
  war 
  pamphlets 
  

   accumulated 
  by 
  the 
  library 
  during 
  the 
  First 
  World 
  War. 
  This 
  col- 
  

   lection, 
  numbering 
  some 
  3,000 
  pieces, 
  largely 
  the 
  so-called 
  ephemera 
  

   of 
  the 
  period, 
  though 
  valuable 
  as 
  historical 
  source 
  material, 
  had 
  no 
  

   direct 
  bearing 
  on 
  the 
  scientific 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  Institution. 
  

  

  ACCESSIONS 
  

  

  Receipt 
  of 
  foreign 
  publications 
  dropped 
  somewhat, 
  but 
  not 
  nearly 
  

   so 
  sharply 
  as 
  during 
  the 
  preceding 
  year, 
  after 
  shipments 
  from 
  enemy 
  

   and 
  occupied 
  countries 
  ceased. 
  Through 
  the 
  International 
  Exchange 
  

   Service, 
  355 
  packages, 
  or 
  only 
  70 
  fewer 
  than 
  last 
  year, 
  were 
  delivered. 
  

   Even 
  this 
  decline 
  was 
  more 
  apparent 
  than 
  real, 
  for 
  a 
  good- 
  many 
  

   foreign 
  serials 
  came 
  directly 
  by 
  mail. 
  Fortunately 
  there 
  have 
  been 
  

   comparatively 
  few 
  actual 
  losses, 
  and 
  not 
  many 
  prolonged 
  delays 
  in 
  

   the 
  arrival 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  important 
  of 
  those 
  scientific 
  serials 
  that 
  are 
  still 
  

   being 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  allied 
  and 
  neutral 
  countries, 
  though 
  some 
  of 
  

   the 
  foreign 
  institutions 
  and 
  societies 
  are 
  postponing 
  shipment 
  of 
  their 
  

   publications 
  until 
  after 
  the 
  war. 
  The 
  maintenance 
  of 
  both 
  the 
  quan- 
  

   tity 
  and 
  quality 
  of 
  scientific 
  publication 
  at 
  a 
  high 
  level 
  among 
  our 
  

   war-torn 
  allies 
  abroad 
  is 
  worthy 
  of 
  remark. 
  

  

  The 
  publication 
  and 
  receipt 
  of 
  domestic 
  scientific 
  serials 
  continued 
  

   to 
  be 
  practically 
  normal. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Museum 
  library 
  an 
  accession 
  of 
  special 
  importance 
  was 
  a 
  

   selection 
  of 
  250 
  books 
  and 
  2,300 
  separates 
  and 
  pamphlets, 
  mostly 
  on 
  

   the 
  subject 
  of 
  reptiles, 
  from 
  the 
  library 
  of 
  the 
  late 
  Dr. 
  Leonhard 
  

   Stejneger. 
  

  

  