﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  SECRETARY 
  79 
  

  

  Keceived 
  in 
  the 
  sectional 
  library 
  of 
  the 
  division 
  of 
  fishes, 
  by 
  trans- 
  

   fer 
  from 
  the 
  Fish 
  and 
  Wildlife 
  Service 
  of 
  the 
  Department 
  of 
  the 
  

   Interior, 
  was 
  the 
  large 
  collection 
  of 
  manuscript 
  records 
  of 
  the 
  dredg- 
  

   ing 
  and 
  hydrographic 
  stations 
  of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  F. 
  S. 
  S. 
  Albatross 
  and 
  

   other 
  fisheries 
  vessels. 
  

  

  By 
  regular 
  and 
  special 
  exchange, 
  and 
  by 
  purchase, 
  considerable 
  

   progress 
  has 
  been 
  made 
  in 
  filling 
  gaps 
  in 
  the 
  serial 
  sets, 
  some 
  of 
  

   them 
  of 
  long 
  standing, 
  and 
  in 
  strengthening 
  certain 
  collections 
  on 
  

   special 
  subjects, 
  for 
  example, 
  the 
  published 
  results 
  of 
  scientific 
  sur- 
  

   veys 
  and 
  travels. 
  The 
  importance 
  of 
  such 
  material, 
  always 
  apparent, 
  

   especially 
  in 
  connection 
  with 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  curators 
  in 
  the 
  Museum, 
  

   has 
  been 
  doubly 
  emphasized 
  by 
  the 
  increased 
  wartime 
  demand 
  for 
  it 
  

   both 
  within 
  and 
  from 
  outside 
  the 
  Institution. 
  

  

  One 
  of 
  the 
  larger 
  special 
  exchanges 
  of 
  duplicates, 
  with 
  the 
  Marine 
  

   Biological 
  Laboratory 
  at 
  Woods 
  Hole, 
  yielded 
  a 
  good 
  many 
  parts 
  

   of 
  periodicals 
  needed 
  in 
  the 
  Museum 
  library, 
  while 
  from 
  Cooper 
  

   Union 
  came 
  35 
  publications 
  on 
  art 
  for 
  the 
  National 
  Collection 
  of 
  Fine 
  

   Arts 
  library. 
  

  

  Among 
  purchases, 
  wartime 
  deviations 
  from 
  the 
  normal 
  have 
  been 
  

   the 
  unusually 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  requests 
  for 
  atlases, 
  descriptive 
  geog- 
  

   raphies, 
  and 
  foreign-language 
  dictionaries. 
  

  

  GIFTS 
  

  

  There 
  have 
  been 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  especially 
  notable 
  gifts 
  during 
  the 
  

   year. 
  One 
  that 
  is 
  invaluable 
  in 
  itself, 
  and 
  noteworthy 
  as 
  well 
  for 
  

   being 
  the 
  library's 
  first 
  considerable 
  accession 
  of 
  microfilmed 
  material, 
  

   was 
  the 
  very 
  generous 
  gift 
  of 
  the 
  Linnean 
  Society 
  of 
  London 
  of 
  the 
  

   records 
  of 
  its 
  Linnean 
  collections 
  and 
  manuscripts, 
  the 
  copying 
  of 
  

   which 
  was 
  made 
  possible 
  by 
  a 
  grant 
  to 
  the 
  society 
  from 
  the 
  Car- 
  

   negie 
  Corporation. 
  This 
  is 
  one 
  of 
  two 
  sets 
  deposited 
  in 
  American 
  

   libraries, 
  the 
  Arnold 
  Arboretum 
  of 
  Harvard 
  University 
  having 
  re- 
  

   ceived 
  the 
  other. 
  We 
  are 
  much 
  indebted 
  to 
  Dr. 
  Elmer 
  D. 
  Merrill, 
  

   the 
  administrator 
  of 
  botanical 
  collections 
  there, 
  for 
  his 
  good 
  offices 
  

   in 
  arranging 
  the 
  whole 
  matter. 
  All 
  the 
  actual 
  specimens 
  in 
  the 
  

   Linnean 
  herbarium 
  are 
  said 
  to 
  be 
  covered 
  in 
  the 
  60,000 
  exposures 
  of 
  

   the 
  set, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  records 
  of 
  the 
  mollusks, 
  fishes, 
  and 
  insects, 
  of 
  vari- 
  

   ous 
  manuscripts, 
  and 
  those 
  of 
  Linneaus' 
  own 
  publications 
  to 
  which 
  

   he 
  had 
  added 
  corrections 
  and 
  emendations. 
  

  

  To 
  accompany 
  the 
  very 
  fine 
  collection 
  of 
  arms 
  and 
  armor 
  given 
  by 
  

   him 
  to 
  the 
  Museum, 
  Kalph 
  G. 
  Packard 
  presented 
  also 
  his 
  collection 
  of 
  

   350 
  books 
  on 
  the 
  subject, 
  many 
  of 
  them 
  rare 
  and 
  beautiful 
  volumes. 
  

  

  The 
  sectional 
  library 
  of 
  the 
  division 
  of 
  marine 
  invertebrates 
  received 
  

   another 
  special 
  collection 
  of 
  great 
  usefulness 
  in 
  connection 
  with 
  speci- 
  

   mens 
  previously 
  received 
  from 
  the 
  donor, 
  by 
  the 
  bequest 
  of 
  the 
  late 
  

  

  