86 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1948 
in the Library of Congress. The number of packages forwarded by 
mail was 197,355. 
The first shipments of exchange publications to the Japanese Ex- 
change Bureau, under the jurisdiction of the National Library of 
Japan (the former Imperial Library), were made during the year. 
In spite of the fact that considerable savings in transportation cost 
were effected by exporting from Baltimore instead of New York, and 
in spite of the advantage gained through special arrangements for 
shipments to Germany, the allotment for transportation was practi- 
cally exhausted by the end of March 1948. Therefore, it was necessary 
to curtail shipments sharply during the last 3 months of the fiscal year 
1948, which resulted in a backlog at the end of the year of approxi- 
mately 225,000 pounds. 
Consignments are now forwarded to all countries except Rumania, 
with which country negotiations were continued through diplomatic 
channels to effect the resumption of normal exchange relations. 
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 publica- 
tions sent by foreign governments for deposit in the Library of Con- 
gress is 94 (57 full and 37 partial sets). The Bulgarian Bibliograph- 
ical Institute has been added to the list as the official depository of 
Bulgaria. 
DEPOSITORIES OF FULL SETS 
ARGENTINA: Direccién de Investigaciones, Archivo, Biblioteca y Legislacién Hx- 
tranjero, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriories y Culto, Buenos Aires. 
AUSTRALIA: Commonwealth Parliament and National Library, Canberra. 
NEw SoutH WAtxgEs: Public Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 
QUEENSLAND: Parliamentary Library, Brisbane. 
South AustTRALIA: Public Library of South Australia, Adelaide. 
TASMANIA: Parliamentary Library, Hobart. 
Victrorta: Public Library of Victoria, Melbourne. 
WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Public Library of Western Australia, Perth. 
Austria: National Library of Austria, Vienna. 
Bete1uM: Bibliothéque Royale, Bruxelles. 
BrAziz: Instituto Nacional do Livro, Rio de Janeiro. 
Bute@ariA: Bulgarian Bibliographical Institute, Sofia. 
CanapDA: Library of Parliament, Ottawa. 
ManiroBa: Provincial Library, Winnipeg. 
OnTARIO: Legislative Library, Toronto. 
QueEBeEc: Library of the Legislature of the Province of Quebec. 
CHILE: Biblioteca Nacional, Santiago. 
CHINA: Ministry of Education, National Library, Nanking, China. 
Perrine: National Library of Peiping. 
CotomsBiA: Biblioteca Nacional, Bogota. 
1 Added during the year. 
