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figures, Tokyo, 1931, 2 volumes; The Printer’s Grammar, by Charles 
Stower, London, 1808; Ceramic Literature: an Analytical Index to 
the Works Published in All Languages on the History and Technology 
of the Ceramic Art, by L. M. E. Solon, London, 1910; The Voyage of 
the Challenger, a Personal Narrative of the Historic Circumnaviga- 
tion of the Globe in the Years 1872-1876, by Herbert Swire, London, 
1938, 2 volumes; Der Franzésische Kupferstich der Renaissance, by 
HKrika Tietze-Conrat, Munich, 1925; Zeitschrift fiir die Entomologie, 
edited by E. Germar, Leipzig, 1839-44, 5 volumes. 
Serial publications, which include not only regularly issued peri- 
odicals, but the reports, bulletins, proceedings, monographs, and other 
publications of learned societies and research institutions, of museums 
and art galleries, of universities, libraries, and laboratories every- 
where, form the largest and probably the most indispensable part of 
the library’s holdings. Except for the periodical parts represented 
by the 271 purchased subscriptions and a few received as gifts, all those 
added to the library during the year came in exchange for the Institu- 
tion’s own publications. Currently entered were 15,256 periodical 
parts, and many annual volumes and irregularly issued serials were 
cataloged. Many gaps in serial sets, some of them of long standing, 
were filled by the 6,782 volumes and parts received in response to 719 
special requests. New exchanges arranged were 314. 
To the great Smithsonian Deposit in the Library of Congress, first 
established in 1866, were sent 5,809 volumes and parts, many of them 
in continuation of files of the scientific and technical proceedings of 
learned societies. Also sent to the Library of Congress were 12,342 
miscellaneous publications, including 1,023 dissertations on a great 
variety of subjects from 14 foreign and 3 American universities, and 
a large number of other books and periodicals on subjects not per- 
tinent to the work of the Institution. 
Most of the 2,339 publications transferred to government libraries 
other than the Library of Congress had been received during the year. 
Among them were 508 medical dissertations transferred to the Army 
Medical Library. 
The cataloging of 6,148 volumes and pamphlets was completed dur- 
ing the year, and 35,357 cards were added to catalogs and shelflists. 
Except for a small number of older publications in urgent need of 
cataloging attention, the huge “backlog” of cataloging remained vir- 
tually untouched and must continue to remain so until an adequate 
staff for doing the work can be provided. 
Funds were not giflicient to permit all the volumes of periodicals 
completed during the year to be sent to the bindery, but the diligent 
studies made by the Government Printing Office to reduce binding 
costs permitted 1,052 volumes or 436 more than last year to be bound 
