﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  SECRETARY 
  111 
  

  

  Among 
  the 
  items 
  received 
  were 
  dissertations 
  from 
  the 
  universities 
  

   of 
  Berlin, 
  Bern, 
  Breslau, 
  Bonn, 
  Cornell, 
  Erlangen, 
  Freiberg, 
  Giessen, 
  

   Halle, 
  Helsingfors, 
  Johns 
  Hopkins, 
  Kiel, 
  Leipzig, 
  Louvain, 
  Neu- 
  

   chatel, 
  Pennsylvania, 
  Rostock, 
  Strasbourg, 
  Tubingen, 
  Utrecht, 
  Wurz- 
  

   burg, 
  and 
  Ziirich; 
  and 
  from 
  technical 
  schools 
  at 
  Berlin, 
  Bonn, 
  

   Braunschweig, 
  Darmstadt, 
  Dresden, 
  Freiberg, 
  Karlsruhe, 
  and 
  

   Ziirich. 
  

  

  GIFTS 
  

  

  The 
  outstanding 
  gift 
  of 
  the 
  year 
  was 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  Harriman 
  Alaskan 
  

   library. 
  This 
  is 
  the 
  collection 
  relating 
  to 
  Alaslva 
  and 
  the 
  Arctic 
  

   regions 
  made 
  by 
  Dr. 
  William 
  H. 
  Dall, 
  late 
  curator 
  in 
  the 
  National 
  

   Museum, 
  who 
  for 
  nearly 
  a 
  lifetime 
  was 
  a 
  student 
  of 
  the 
  regions 
  of 
  

   the 
  north. 
  It 
  consists 
  of 
  approximately 
  1,100 
  vohimes 
  and 
  pamph- 
  

   lets, 
  together 
  with 
  30 
  or 
  more 
  scrapbooks 
  of 
  letters 
  and 
  newspaper 
  

   clippings. 
  It 
  is 
  rich 
  in 
  works 
  on 
  exploration 
  and 
  discovery, 
  and 
  

   contains 
  many 
  rare 
  items, 
  including 
  a 
  file 
  of 
  the 
  Alaska 
  Herald 
  from 
  

   1868 
  to 
  1875. 
  The 
  library 
  was 
  purchased 
  and 
  presented 
  to 
  the 
  Insti- 
  

   tution 
  by 
  Mrs. 
  Edward 
  H. 
  Harriman, 
  whose 
  husband, 
  it 
  will 
  be 
  re- 
  

   membered, 
  made 
  possible 
  by 
  his 
  generosity 
  the 
  famous 
  Harriman 
  

   expedition 
  to 
  Alaska 
  in 
  1899, 
  in 
  which 
  Doctor 
  Dail 
  and 
  other 
  scien- 
  

   tists 
  from 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  and 
  the 
  Washington 
  Academy 
  

   of 
  Sciences 
  took 
  a 
  leading 
  part, 
  and 
  the 
  results 
  of 
  whicli 
  the 
  Insti- 
  

   tution 
  published 
  later 
  in 
  a 
  monumental 
  worlv. 
  The 
  library 
  will 
  be 
  

   made 
  available 
  for 
  reference 
  at 
  the 
  earliest 
  possible 
  moment. 
  

  

  Also 
  prominent 
  among 
  the 
  gifts 
  were 
  these: 
  1,000 
  publications 
  and 
  

   manuscripts 
  of 
  a 
  miscellaneous 
  character, 
  from 
  Mr. 
  Herbert 
  A. 
  Gill, 
  

   of 
  Washington, 
  D. 
  C, 
  brother 
  of 
  the 
  late 
  Dr. 
  Theodore 
  Gill, 
  at 
  one 
  

   time 
  librarian 
  and 
  associate 
  in 
  zoology 
  at 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institu- 
  

   tion; 
  500 
  books 
  and 
  periodicals 
  on 
  photography, 
  from 
  Mr. 
  A. 
  B. 
  

   Stebbins, 
  of 
  Canisteo, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  ; 
  two 
  sets 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  four 
  volumes 
  of 
  the 
  

   Smithsonian 
  Scientific 
  Series, 
  Patrons' 
  Edition, 
  from 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  

   Institution 
  ; 
  several 
  hundred 
  scientific 
  publications, 
  many 
  in 
  continua- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  series 
  already 
  given, 
  from 
  the 
  American 
  Association 
  for 
  the 
  

   Advancement 
  of 
  Science, 
  the 
  Hygienic 
  Laboratory, 
  and 
  the 
  Geo- 
  

   physical 
  Laboratory; 
  and 
  about 
  1,500 
  publications 
  of 
  the 
  Philo- 
  

   sophical 
  Society 
  of 
  Washington, 
  from 
  the 
  society 
  itself, 
  to 
  be 
  used 
  for 
  

   completing 
  sets 
  in 
  the 
  library, 
  for 
  exchange, 
  or 
  for 
  free 
  distribution. 
  

  

  Many 
  other 
  gifts 
  were 
  received, 
  including 
  copies 
  of 
  the 
  following 
  : 
  

   The 
  phototype 
  edition 
  of 
  Codex 
  Argenteus 
  Upsaliensis, 
  recently 
  

   issued 
  by 
  the 
  Eoyal 
  University 
  of 
  Upsala 
  in 
  order 
  to 
  celebrate 
  its 
  

   four 
  hundred 
  and 
  fiftieth 
  anniversary, 
  from 
  the 
  University; 
  Inner- 
  

   most 
  Asia 
  — 
  a 
  detailed 
  report, 
  in 
  four 
  volumes, 
  of 
  explorations 
  in 
  

   Central 
  Asia, 
  Kan-su, 
  and 
  Eastern 
  Iran, 
  carried 
  out 
  and 
  described 
  

   under 
  the 
  orders 
  of 
  H. 
  M. 
  Indian 
  Government 
  by 
  Sir 
  Aurel 
  Stein, 
  

  

  