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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1937 



erick N. Chasen, from Gertrude Abbott; Proboscidea, volume 1, by 

 Henry Fairfield Osborn, from the Osborn Library; Fragments of 

 Entomological History, by Herbert Osborn, from the author; Moss 

 Flora of North America North of Mexico, volume 1, part 1, by A. J. 

 Grout, from the author; Praktikum der Edelsteinkunde, by Georg 

 O. "Wild, from Alfred N. Goldsmith; and several publications, in- 

 cluding J. M. W. Turner, by W. L. Wyllie, and the De Luxe Illus- 

 trated Catalogue of Early American Portraits Collected by Thomas 

 B. Clarke, from Theodore Bolton. 



Finally, there were gifts from members and associates of the 

 Smithsonian staff, notably Secretary Abbot and Assistant Secretary 

 Wetmore. Mrs. Charles D. Walcott also gave a large number of 

 items, including two copies of her recently published Illustrations of 

 North American Pitcherplants. 



SOME STATISTICS 



Accessions to the various libraries: 



Astrophysical Observatory 



Bureau of American Ethnology 



Freer Gallery of Art 



Langley Aeronautical 



National Colloction of Fine Arts 



National Museum 



National Zoological Park 



Radiation and Organisms 



Smithsonian deposit, Library of Congress. 

 Smithsonian oIBce 



Total. 



Volumes 



32fi 



580 



020 



34 



402 



2,486 



89 



4 



3,037 



302 



Pamphlets 

 and charts 



95 



114 



25 



355 



951 



10 



3 



2,000 



21 



3,580 



Total 



421 



580 



743 



59 



757 



3,437 



99 



7 



5.043 



323 



11,469 



Approxi- 

 mate 

 holdings 

 June 30, 

 1937 



9.197 



51,000 



12,074 



3.328 



5.784 



207. 142 



3.571 



245 



553, 078 



30.603 



' 876, 522 



> These holdings do not, of course, Include the thousands of volumes still unbound, uncataloged, 

 or incomplete. 



The number of periodicals entered was 24,212; of publications 

 cataloged, 6,766; of cards prepared and filed, 28,967; of loans made, 

 10,995, of which 196 were to libraries outside the Institution and its 

 branches. From the Library of Congress 1,912 publications were 

 borrowed, and from other libraries, 386. 



Tlie index of Smithsonian publications was kept up to date; the 

 index of exchange relations was advanced; and the union catalog 

 received considerable attention, as the following table will show: 



Volnmes cataloged 4, 122 



Pamphlets and charts cataloged 2, 427 



New serial entries made 218 



Typed cards added to catalog and shelf list . 4, 733 



Library of Congress cards added to catalog and shelf list 2, 239 



