﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  SECRETARY 
  113 
  

  

  ing 
  about 
  500,000 
  volumes, 
  pamphlets, 
  and 
  charts, 
  besides 
  many 
  vol- 
  

   umes 
  awaiting 
  completion. 
  This 
  collection, 
  which 
  began 
  with 
  the 
  

   founding 
  of 
  the 
  Institution 
  in 
  1846, 
  was 
  housed 
  in 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  

   Building 
  until 
  1866. 
  In 
  that 
  year 
  it 
  had 
  grown 
  to 
  40,000 
  volumes, 
  

   and 
  was, 
  by 
  permission 
  of 
  Congress, 
  deposited 
  in 
  the 
  Library 
  of 
  Con- 
  

   gress. 
  Since 
  that 
  time 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  steadily 
  increased 
  by 
  additions 
  

   from 
  the 
  Institution. 
  While 
  it 
  is 
  somevv'hat 
  general 
  in 
  character, 
  its 
  

   interest 
  is 
  mainly 
  scientific, 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  rich 
  in 
  serial 
  publications 
  and 
  

   monographs, 
  and 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  reports, 
  proceedings, 
  and 
  trans- 
  

   actions 
  of 
  the 
  learned 
  societies 
  and 
  institutions 
  of 
  the 
  world, 
  being 
  

   one 
  of 
  the 
  foremost 
  collections 
  of 
  its 
  kind. 
  Although, 
  of 
  course, 
  dis- 
  

   tributed 
  throughout 
  the 
  Library 
  of 
  Congress 
  according 
  to 
  classifica- 
  

   tion, 
  the 
  deposit 
  is, 
  because 
  of 
  its 
  prevailingly 
  scientific 
  nature, 
  

   chiefly 
  in 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  division, 
  which 
  was 
  established 
  in 
  1900 
  

   to 
  take 
  care 
  of 
  the 
  scientific 
  publications 
  both 
  of 
  the 
  deposit 
  and 
  of 
  

   the 
  Library 
  of 
  Congress. 
  

  

  During 
  the 
  last 
  fiscal 
  year 
  the 
  Institution 
  sent 
  to 
  the 
  deposit 
  19,003 
  

   publications, 
  comprising 
  3,569 
  volumes, 
  9,506 
  parts 
  of 
  volumes, 
  6,616 
  

   pamphlets, 
  and 
  312 
  charts. 
  Documents 
  of 
  foreign 
  governments, 
  

   largely 
  statistical 
  in 
  character, 
  to 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  about 
  4,000, 
  were 
  

   also 
  forwarded, 
  without 
  being 
  stamped 
  or 
  entered, 
  to 
  the 
  document 
  

   division 
  of 
  the 
  Library 
  of 
  Congress. 
  Among 
  the 
  items 
  sent 
  to 
  the 
  

   deposit 
  were 
  1,110 
  volumes 
  in 
  Japanese 
  on 
  education, 
  several 
  hun- 
  

   dred 
  in 
  Kussian 
  on 
  various 
  subjects, 
  and 
  56 
  in 
  Turkish. 
  The 
  last 
  

   had 
  been 
  presented 
  to 
  the 
  Institution 
  many 
  years 
  before 
  by 
  H. 
  I. 
  M. 
  

   the 
  Sultan 
  Abdul-Hamid 
  II. 
  Among 
  them, 
  too, 
  were 
  4,729 
  dis- 
  

   sertations 
  from 
  30 
  universities 
  and 
  technical 
  schools 
  at 
  home 
  and 
  

   abroad. 
  The 
  publications 
  also 
  included 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  intended 
  for 
  

   use 
  in 
  building 
  up 
  resei-ve 
  sets. 
  Some 
  of 
  these 
  were 
  taken 
  from 
  the 
  

   duplicates 
  in 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Building, 
  which 
  have 
  lately 
  been 
  made 
  

   available; 
  others 
  from 
  the 
  publications 
  recently 
  given 
  to 
  the 
  Insti- 
  

   tution 
  by 
  the 
  American 
  Association 
  for 
  the 
  Advancement 
  of 
  Science. 
  

   It 
  is 
  particularly 
  pleasing 
  to 
  report 
  that, 
  as 
  the 
  result 
  of 
  the 
  re- 
  

   organization 
  of 
  the 
  accessions 
  department 
  of 
  the 
  library, 
  nearly 
  

   twice 
  as 
  many 
  volumes 
  and 
  parts 
  were 
  obtained 
  in 
  response 
  to 
  

   requests 
  from 
  the 
  deposit 
  as 
  were 
  obtained 
  the 
  year 
  before. 
  

  

  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  LIBRARY 
  

  

  The 
  library 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  National 
  Museum, 
  which 
  consists, 
  

   in 
  the 
  main, 
  of 
  works 
  on 
  natural 
  history 
  and 
  mechanical 
  and 
  min- 
  

   eral 
  technology, 
  is 
  housed 
  partly 
  in 
  the 
  Natural 
  History 
  Building 
  

   and 
  partly 
  in 
  the 
  Arts 
  and. 
  Industries 
  Building. 
  In 
  addition 
  to 
  the 
  

   two 
  main 
  collections 
  it 
  includes 
  36 
  smaller 
  collections, 
  which 
  are 
  the 
  

   sectional 
  libraries 
  of 
  the 
  curators. 
  The 
  library 
  contains 
  74,562 
  vol- 
  

  

  