84 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1946 
*SwITZERLAND: Service Suisse des Echanges Internationaux, Bibliothéque 
Centrale Fédérale, Palais Fédérale, Berne. 
TASMANIA: Secretary to the Premier, Hobart. 
TuRKEY: Ministry of Education, Department of Printing and Engraving, Istanbul. 
UNION oF SouTH AFrica: Government Printing and Stationery Office, Cape Town, 
Cape of Good Hope. 
UNIon or Sovier SocraAtist REPUBLICS: International Book Exchange Depart- 
ment, Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, Moscow, 56. 
VictorIA: Public Library of Victoria, Melbourne. 
WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Public Library of Western Australia, Perth. 
YucostaviA: Section des Echanges Internationaux, Ministére des Affaires 
Etrangéres, Belgrade. 
Frank E. Gass, correspondence clerk, who had been for several years 
Acting Chief Clerk of Exchanges, retired on June 30, after almost 60 
years of service. Mr. Gass was appointed as messenger on August 1, 
1886, and retired in March of 1941. When the manpower situation 
became acute in 1942 Mr. Gass returned to the Exchanges to serve dur- 
ing the war. 
D. G. Williams was appointed as Chief Clerk on February 25. 
Carl E. Hellyer, on January 11, was transferred from the guard 
force to the position of shipping clerk. 
Glenn P. Shephard, on March 4, was transferred from the Freer 
Gallery of Art to the Exchanges and detailed to the Government 
Document Room. 
Harold Peacock, after honorable discharge from the Signal Corps 
of the United States Army, was employed by the Institution on April 
2, and detailed to the incoming mail room in charge of records and 
geographic distribution. 
Respectfully submitted. 
H. W. Dorsey, Acting Chief. 
Dr. A. WETMORE, 
Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. 
