90 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1949 
The packages are forwarded either by mail direct to the addresses 
or by freight to the exchange bureaus of foreign countries. The 
number of boxes shipped to the foreign exchange bureaus was 3,296, 
an increase of 189 over the previous year. Of the boxes shipped 650 
were for depositories of full sets of United States Government docu- 
ments furnished in exchange for the official publications of foreign 
governments for deposit in the Library of Congress. The number of 
packages forwarded by mail was 155,402. 
In spite of the fact that considerable savings in transportation 
continued to be effected by exporting from Baltimore rather than 
New York, and in spite of the advantage gained through special 
arrangements for shipments to Germany, the allotment for trans- 
portation was practically exhausted by the end of May 1949. There- 
fore, it was necessary to curtail shipments sharply during the last 
month of the fiscal year, and this resulted in a backlog of approxi- 
mately 146,000 pounds. 
Consignments are now forwarded to all countries except Rumania, 
and efforts are continued to effect exchanges with that country. 
FOREIGN DEPOSITORIES OF GOVERNMENTAL DOCUMENTS 
The number of sets of United States official publications received 
by the Exchange Service to be sent abroad in return for the official 
publications sent by foreign governments for deposit in the Library 
of Congress is 96 (58 full and 38 partial sets). ‘The Government Book 
Depot, Rangoon, has been added to the list of full depositories. 
DEPOSITORIES OF FULL SETS 
Ararntina: Direccién de Investigaciones, Archivo, Biblioteca y Legislacién Ex- 
tranjero, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriories y Culto, Buenos Aires. 
AustTRALIA: Commonwealth Parliament and National Library, Canberra. 
New Souts Watss: Public Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 
QUEENSLAND: Parliamentary Library, Brisbane. 
Souts Ausrrauia: Public Library of South Australia, Adelaide. 
TasMANIA: Parliamentary Library, Hobart. 
Vicroria: Publie Library of Victoria, Melbourne. 
WEsTERN AvstTRALIA: Public Library of Western Australia, Perth. 
Austria: Administrative Library, Federal Chancellery, Vienna.! 
Beuaium: Ribliothéque Royale, Bruxelles. 
Brazit: Instituto Nacional do Livro, Rio de Janeiro. 
Buiearia: Bulgarian Bibliographical Institute, Sofia. 
Burma: Gevernment Book Depot, Rangoon? 
Canapva: Library of Parliament, Ottawa. 
Manrrosa: Provincial Library, Winnipeg. 
Onrazio: Legislative Library. Toronto. 
Quersec: Library of the Legislature of the Province of Quebec. 
1 Changed from National Library of Austria. 
3 Added during year. 
