﻿EEPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  SECRETARY 
  119 
  

  

  Further 
  progress 
  was 
  made 
  in 
  organizing 
  the 
  scientific 
  material 
  

   in 
  the 
  west 
  stacks 
  of 
  the 
  main 
  building, 
  so 
  that 
  by 
  the 
  close 
  of 
  the 
  

   year 
  most 
  of 
  it 
  was 
  in 
  order. 
  The 
  finishing 
  of 
  this 
  long, 
  difficult 
  

   task 
  will 
  greatly 
  facilitate 
  the 
  exchange 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  library. 
  Ali'eady 
  

   many 
  hundreds 
  of 
  publications 
  have 
  been 
  found 
  that 
  were 
  needed 
  

   by 
  sets 
  in 
  the 
  various 
  libraries 
  of 
  the 
  Institution. 
  

  

  As 
  a 
  result 
  of 
  the 
  work 
  in 
  the 
  west 
  stacks 
  about 
  1,900 
  publica- 
  

   tions 
  of 
  a 
  miscellaneous 
  character, 
  many 
  in 
  Japanese 
  and 
  Russian, 
  

   Avere 
  sent 
  to 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  deposit 
  and 
  the 
  document 
  division 
  of 
  

   the 
  Library 
  of 
  Congress. 
  

  

  The 
  work 
  of 
  selecting 
  from 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  duplicates 
  items 
  to 
  

   be 
  used 
  in 
  exchange 
  with 
  other 
  libraries 
  for 
  material 
  needed 
  by 
  the 
  

   Institution 
  was 
  considerably 
  advanced. 
  In 
  this 
  connection 
  2,400 
  

   publications 
  were 
  sent 
  to 
  Harvard 
  University 
  and 
  2,900 
  to 
  Yale. 
  

   Other 
  sendings 
  will 
  soon 
  be 
  made 
  to 
  Chicago 
  University, 
  Catholic 
  

   University, 
  and 
  the 
  Marine 
  Biological 
  Laboratory 
  at 
  Woods 
  Hole. 
  

  

  Nearly 
  1,800 
  publications 
  of 
  State 
  geological 
  surveys 
  were 
  as- 
  

   sembled 
  from 
  various 
  unorganized 
  collections 
  in 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  

   Building 
  and 
  the 
  Arts 
  and 
  Industries 
  Building 
  and 
  many 
  of 
  them 
  

   used 
  toward 
  completing 
  sets 
  in 
  the 
  library. 
  Those 
  not 
  needed 
  will 
  

   be 
  offered 
  to 
  the 
  library 
  of 
  the 
  Geological 
  Survey. 
  

  

  About 
  10,000 
  publications 
  of 
  State 
  agricultural 
  experiment 
  sta- 
  

   tions, 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  received 
  and 
  shelved 
  by 
  the 
  library 
  for 
  many 
  

   years, 
  but 
  which 
  had 
  little 
  to 
  do 
  with 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  Institution 
  or 
  

   its 
  branches, 
  were 
  given 
  to 
  the 
  library 
  of 
  the 
  Department 
  of 
  Agri- 
  

   culture. 
  

  

  A 
  collection 
  of 
  667 
  reprints 
  was 
  sorted 
  according 
  to 
  subject 
  and 
  

   distributed 
  to 
  the 
  curators 
  concerned. 
  

  

  The 
  cards 
  of 
  the 
  Wistar 
  Institute 
  were 
  filed 
  to 
  date, 
  and 
  the 
  Con- 
  

   cilium 
  Bibliographicum 
  cards 
  pertaining 
  to 
  mammals 
  were 
  deposited 
  

   in 
  the 
  section 
  of 
  mammals. 
  

  

  The 
  popular 
  and 
  semipopular 
  material 
  that, 
  pending 
  final 
  dis- 
  

   posal, 
  had 
  been 
  stored 
  in 
  the 
  basement 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Build- 
  

   ing, 
  was 
  transferred 
  to 
  a 
  special 
  building 
  on 
  the 
  grounds 
  of 
  the 
  

   Astrophysical 
  Observatory 
  and 
  arranged. 
  

  

  The 
  work 
  of 
  reorganizing 
  the 
  east 
  stacks 
  of 
  the 
  main 
  building 
  was 
  

   begun, 
  to 
  make 
  room 
  for 
  the 
  growth 
  of 
  the 
  reference 
  department 
  of 
  

   the 
  Institution 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  library 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  American 
  

   Ethnology. 
  

  

  Special 
  attention 
  was 
  given 
  by 
  the 
  accessions 
  department 
  to 
  the 
  

   want 
  cards 
  from 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  deposit 
  and 
  the 
  library 
  of 
  the 
  

   National 
  Museum, 
  with 
  the 
  result 
  that 
  the 
  correspondence 
  based 
  

   upon 
  them 
  will 
  be 
  brought 
  up 
  to 
  date 
  within 
  a 
  few 
  weeks. 
  

  

  