120 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1946 
29; A Brief History of Old English Porcelain and its Manufac- 
tories . . ., by Louis M. E. Solon, 1903; Travels of the Jesuits, into 
Various Parts of the World: particularly China and the East- 
Indies ... Translated from the celebrated Lettres édifiantes & 
curieuses . . . To which is now prefixed, an Account of the Spanish 
Settlements, in America, with a general index to the whole work, by 
Mr. Lockman, 2d ed., 2 volumes, 1762; American Lace and Lace 
Makers, by Mrs. Emily Noyes Vanderpoel, edited by Elizabeth C. Bar- 
ney Buel, 1924; Arcana Entomologica, by John Obadiah Westwood, 
1845; A Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, I, III, 
IV, by George Anson, esq; now Lord Anson, Commander in Chief 
of a Squadron of His Majesty’s Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the 
South-Seas. Compiled from his Papers and Materials, by Richard 
Walter ... 5th ed., 1749. 
Gifts received were even more numerous than in the preceding year 
and numbered 4,103, exclusive of the Gilmore collection on vertebrate 
paleontology which arrived late in the year and has not yet been com- 
pletely counted. Mrs. Gilmore’s gift to the National Museum of the 
late Dr. Charles W. Gilmore’s private library on the subject of his 
special studies is an important one. Its 600 volumes and especially 
its hundreds of reprints and separates are invaluable to the work of 
the division of vertebrate paleontology where it will be housed as a 
part of the division’s sectional library. 
To the many other donors of useful books and papers the library 
is most grateful. Coming as they do from friends of the Institution 
all over the world they often supply needs in the collections that it 
would be otherwise difficult to fill. 
Toward the close of the fiscal year the Institution was so fortunate 
as to receive by transfer from the National Academy of Sciences about 
850 parts of valuable old scientific serial publications needed for the 
completion of sets in the Astrophysical Observatory and the Museum 
libraries and to fill other lacunae in the collections. 
With the reestablishment of interrupted exchange relationships all 
over the world came also the opportunity to share in the rehabilitation 
of destroyed libraries. Several thousand pieces were withdrawn for 
this purpose from the library’s very large collection of duplicate 
serial parts, some 1,800 of them in response to specific requests from 
individual libraries for certain titles, but most of them to be used in 
combination with similar materials from other libraries collected and 
to be distributed by the American Book Center for War Devastated 
Libraries. It would be possible to do more of this very gratifying but 
time-consuming work, as well as other much-needed work with the 
duplicates, if the library staff were large enough so that a competent 
