44 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1923 



Building, 42,904. The national collections in the Natural History 

 Building are accessible to the public every day in the year, Sundays 

 as well as week days. Owing, however, to the limited appropriations 

 for the maintenance of the Museum, the other buildings are not open 

 on Sundays. 



The Museum published during the year 10 volumes and 42 separate 

 papers. The former comprised the Annual Keport of the Museum 

 for 1922 ; volumes 60 and 61 of the Proceedings ; Bulletin 100, volume 

 5; Bulletins 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, and 126. The separates included 

 1 bulletin article; 4 papers in the series, Contributions from the 

 United States National Herbarium; 5 papers from volume 61, 21 

 papers from volume 62, and 11 papers from volume 63 of the Pro- 

 ceedings. The distribution of volumes and separates to libraries 

 and individuals on the regular mailing list aggregated 63,869 copies 

 besides 8,660 copies supplied in response to special applications. 



The Museum library, as one of the libraries administered under the 

 direction of the Smithsonian Institution, enjoys the close coopera- 

 tion of its associated libraries and in turn contributes substantially 

 toward the general library activities. Much has been accomplished 

 during the year toward better library service. The long-needed 

 subject catalogue has been started, and at the close of the year 4,400 

 cards had been made and arranged. The arrangement of cards from 

 the Concilium Bibliographicum distributed since the World War is 

 well under way, and progress is being made in the reclassification 

 and shelving of the technological collections. Work has, however, 

 suffered from a lack of funds for binding and renovating and from 

 a vacancy in the staff during eight months of the year. The receipts 

 for the year numbered 1,489 volumes and 2,796 pamphlets, bringing 

 up the total of books and other material in the library to 160,560 

 titles. The number of loans made was 9,220, of which 5,191 were to 

 the sectional libraries. 



The death of John B. Henderson, a Regent of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, on January 4, 1923, deprived the Museum of a valued 

 friend, a constant contributor and an indefatigable worker on its 

 collections. The members of the scientific staff and other employees 

 of the Museum and Institution gathered in the auditorium on Janu- 

 ary 8, 1923, to pay respect to their colleague and adopted resolu- 

 tions expressing their deep sense of loss. Doctor Walcott presided 

 and brief addresses were made by Doctor Walcott, Dr. W. H. Dall, 

 Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, and Dr. Paul Bartsch. 



Respectfully submitted. 



W. de C. Ravenel, 

 Administrative Assistant to the Secretary in charge, 



United States National Museum. 



Dr. Charles D. Walcott, 



Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. 



