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Paraguay : Oficina General de Informaciones y Canjes y Commisaria General de 



Inmigracion, Asuncion. 

 Roumania : Academia Romana, Bucarest. 

 Salvador : Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, San Salvador. 

 Straits Settlements : Colonial Secretary, Singapore. 

 Siam : Department of Foreign Affairs, Bangkok. 

 Vienna : Burgermeister der Haupt- und Residenz-Stadt. 



CORRESPONDENTS. 



The names of new correspondents in every part of the world are constantly 

 being added to the exchange list, so that they now reach a total of 63,605, an 

 increase of 975 over those of the preceding year. These correspondents are 

 subdivided as follows : 



Foreign institutions 3,925 



Foreign individuals 8, 300 



Domestic institutions 16, 700 



Domestic individuals 34, 780 



A table showing the number of correspondents in each country at the close 

 of 1907 will be found in the report for that year. 



RULES GOVERNING THE TRANSMISSION OF EXCHANGES. 



The circular containing the rules governing the transmission of exchanges 

 has been revised during the year, and under date of June 30, 1910, a new edition 

 was published. The circular is here reproduced for the information of those 

 who may wish to make use of the facilities of the service in the forwarding of 

 exchanges : 



In effecting the distribution of its first publications abroad the Smithsonian 

 Institution established relations with certain foreign scientific societies and 

 libraries by means of which it was enabled to materially assist institutions and 

 individuals of this country in the transmission of their publications abroad 

 and also foreign societies and individuals in distributing their publications in the 

 United States. 



In recent years the Smithsonian Institution has been charged with the duty 

 of conducting the official exchange bureau of the United States Government, 

 through which the publications authorized by Congress are exchanged for those 

 of other governments ; and by a formal treaty it acts as intermediary between 

 the learned bodies and literary and scientific societies of the contracting states 

 for the reception and transmission of their publications. 



Attention is called to the fact that this is an international and not a domestic 

 exchange service, and that it is used to facilitate exchanges between the United 

 States and other countries only. As exchanges from domestic sources for 

 addresses in Hawaii, the Philippine Islands, Porto Rico, and other territory 

 subject to the jurisdiction of the United 'States do not come within the desig- 

 nation " international," they are not accepted for transmission. 



Packages prepared in accordance with the rules enumerated below will be 

 received by the Smithsonian Institution from persons or institutions of learning 

 in the United States and forwarded to their destinations through its own agents 

 or through the various exchange bureaus in other countries. The Smithsonian 

 agents and these bureaus will likewise receive from correspondents in their 

 countries such publications for addresses in the United, States and territory 

 subject to its jurisdiction as may be delivered to them under rules similar to 

 those prescribed herein, and will forward them to Washington, after which the 

 Institution will undertake their distribution. 



