110 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1938 



Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam; Ucena Spolecnost 

 Safarikova, Bratislava; Academie Royale des Sciences de Belgique, 

 Brussels; Polskiego Towarzystwa Przyrodnikow im. Kopernika, 

 Lwow; Royal Society of Victoria, Melbourne; Naturforscher-Verein 

 zu Riga, Riga ; Kgl. Norske Videnskabernes Selskab, Trondheim ; and 

 the universities of Basel, Cambridge, and Lille. 



The 6,037 dissertations received represented an increase of 670 over 

 the year before. Of these, 2,265 were added to the Smithsonian 

 deposit, 2,971, having to do largely with medical subjects, were turned 

 over to the Surgeon General's library, and the rest, being duplicates, 

 were sent, under a special exchange arrangement, to Columbia Uni- 

 versity. They came from the universities of Basel, Berlin, Bern, 

 Bonn, Breslau, Cornell, Erlangen, Freiburg, Giessen, Greifswald, 

 Heidelberg, Jena, Kiel, Konigsberg, Louvain, Lund, Lwow, Marburg, 

 Neuchatel, Pennsylvania, Rostock, Strasbourg, Tubingen, Utrecht, 

 Wiirzburg, and Zurich, and the technical schools of Berlin, Braun- 

 schweig, Delft, Dresden, Karlsruhe, and Zurich. 



The number of letters — 2,403 — prepared by the staff in course of 

 the exchange and other work of the library was larger than in 1937, 

 as was the number of publications obtained by special request to 

 meet needs in the various libraries of the Institution. The latter 

 totaled 5,315, more than one-half of which were for the library of 

 the National Museum. In connection with the effort to provide by 

 exchange publications essential to the work of the Smithsonian and 

 its bureaus, the library staff handled 582 want cards and arranged for 

 285 new exchanges. It should be sai'd, however, in passing, that 

 hundreds of the volumes and parts in question were found among 

 the duplicates in the west stacks, a further indication of the value 

 of this collection and of the effectiveness of the organization to which 

 it has been subjected. 



Finally, it is a pleasure to report that the year marked the return 

 to stock of numerous sendings, both large and small, of Smithsonian 

 publications from libraries outside of Washington where they were 

 duplicates. Thus the supply available for exchange use was again 

 substantially increased. 



GIFTS 



The gifts during the year were numerous. From the Geophysical 

 Laboratory came 3,312 miscellaneous publications, from the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 653, and from the Ameri- 

 can Association of Museums 209, among them a goodly number of 

 scientific serials that were especially welcome. 



From the libraries of the late Dr. Walter Hough and Dr. Fred- 

 erick V. Coville, former members of the scientific staff, came, through 

 Mrs. Hough and Mrs. Coville, many important books and pamphlets. 



