REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 21 



For the annual reports of the National Museum, with general appen- 

 dices, and for printing labels and blanks, and for the Bulletins and 

 Proceedings of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not 

 exceed 4,000 copies, and binding, in half morocco or material not more 

 expensive, scientific books, and pamphlets presented to or acquired 



by the National Museum library $37, 500 



For the annual reports and Bulletins of the Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology and for miscellaneous printing and binding^ for the bureau 21, 000 



For miscellaneous printing and binding: 



International Exchanges 200 



International Catalogue of Scientific Literature 100 



National Zoological Park 200 



Astrophysical Observatory 200 



For the annual report of the American Historical Association 7, 000 



Total 76,200 



CoTn/mittee on printing and puhlication. — All manuscripts submit- 

 ted for publication by the Institution or its branches have, as usual, 

 been referred to the Smithsonian advisory committee on printing and 

 publication. During the year 18 meetings were held and 96 manu- 

 scripts examined and passed upon. The personnel of the committee 

 was as follows: Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, head curator of biology, 

 National Museum, acting chairman ; Dr. C. G. Abbot, director of the 

 Astrophysical Observatory ; Dr. Frank Baker, superintendent of the 

 National Zoological Park ; Mr. A. Howard Clark, editor of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, secretary of the committee; Mr. F. W. Hodge, 

 ethnologist in charge of the Bureau of American ethnology; and 

 Dr. George P. Merrill, head curator of geology. United States 

 National Museum. 



LIBRARY. 



The accumulation of a scientific library has always been an im- 

 portant phase of the Institution's work in the " increase and diffusion 

 of knowledge," and the collection has increased in size from year to 

 year until at present it numbers well over half a million titles. The 

 accessions of the year aggregated about 13,000 books and pamphlets. 



The main Smithsonian library is assembled in the Library of Con- 

 gress and is known as the Smithsonian deposit. In addition the 

 Institution maintains the Smithsonian office librarj^, the National 

 Museum library, the library of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 the Astrophysical Observatory library, and the National Zoological 

 Park library, besides some 35 specialized sectional libraries main- 

 tained in various offices for the use of the scientific staff of the Insti- 

 tution and its branches. The Smithsonian office library contains a 

 collection of books relating to art, the employees' library, and an exten- 

 sive aeronautical library. This collection of aeronautical works has 

 been notably increased by additional gifts from Dr. Alexander 



