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fino; Art and Archaeology Abroad, by Dr. Kalidas Nag, from the 

 author; Old New York from the Battery to Bloomingdale, etchings 

 by Eliza Greatorex, text by M. Despard, from Mrs. Walter S. Pratt, 

 Jr. ; Interpretive History of Flight, by M. J. B. Davy, from the author ; 

 The Americana Annual for 1937 and 1938, from the editor; The 

 Great Chain at West Point and Other Obstructions Placed in the 

 Hudson River during the War of the Revolution, by B. F. Fackenthal, 

 Jr., from the author; The Phonetics of the Hottentot Language, by 

 D. M. Beach, from the Research Grant Board, Johannesburg; Hints 

 on Museum Education, by J. C. Basak, from the author; and The 

 Tracy Genealogy, by Sherman Weld Tracy, from the author. 



SOME STATISTICS 



Accessions to the libraries: 



Volumes 



Pamphlets 

 and charts 



Total 



Approximate 



holdings, 

 June 30, 1938 



Astrophysical Observatory.- 



Bureau of American Ethnology 



Freer Gallery of Art. -. 



Langley Aeronautical 



National Collection of Fine Arts 



National Museum 



National Zoological Park 



Radiation and Organisms 



Smithsonian deposit, Library of Congress 

 Smithsonian office 



Total 



162 

 395 

 634 

 45 

 285 



2,639 

 149 

 17 



3,018 

 106 



132 



69 



21 



271 



929 



21 



7 



1,974 



18 



294 

 395 

 703 

 66 

 556 



3,568 

 170 

 24 



4,992 

 124 



9,491 



51, 395 



13, 377 



3,394 



6,340 



210,710 



3,741 



269 



558, 070 



30, 627 



7,450 



3,442 



10, 892 



' 887, 414 



1 These holdings do not, of course, include the thousands of volumes still incomplete, uncataloged, or 

 unbound. 



The staff recorded 23,992 periodicals ; cataloged 6,449 publications ; 

 prepared and filed 42,568 catalog and shelf list cards; borrowed 

 2,239 volumes from the Library of Congress and other libraries ; and 

 made 11,380 loans, 340 of which were to libraries outside the Smith- 

 sonian system. They also advanced materially the index of exchange 

 relations and the index of Smithsonian publications. The work on 

 the union catalog was as follows : 



Volumes cataloged 3,439 



Pamphlets and charts cataloged 2,307 



New serial entries made 165 



Typed cards added to catalog and shelf list 5, 979 



Library of Congress cards added to catalog and shelf list 13,890 



OTHER ACTIVITIES 



The staff took down the exhibition set of Smithsonian publications 

 that for 10 years had formed an imposing monument in the main hall 

 and filed it away for future service. They brought together the 

 archives set, checked it, and shelved it in a safe and convenient place. 



