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Dissertations were received from the Universities of Toulouse, 

 Paris, Utrecht, Lund, Ghent, Helsingfors, Bonn, Basel, Lausanne, 

 Zurich, and Geneva. 



The securing of publications in exchange for the completion of 

 sets has been continued with the following results : 



Number of want cards received from Library of Congress: 



From Smithsonian Division 176 



From Periodical Division 79 



From Order Division 30 



Total 285 



Number of publications secured for Library of Congress : 



Vols. Parts. 



For Smithsonian Division 313 316 



For Periodical Division 11 66 



For Order Division 13 36 



Total 337 418 



Number of sets completed, 73. 



With exchanges to the Central Powers still suspended, shipments 

 delayed, and many societies suspending publication, the time for se- 

 curing missing parts has been far from favorable. It is worthy of 

 note, however, that in spite of the unfavorable conditions, a larger 

 proportion of the wants have been secured in exchange than in years 

 previous as may be seen by the following table : 



Requests sent out for missing parts, it will be seen, are more effec- 

 tive by 5 per cent than those sent out before the war. It is hoped 

 that, when shipments to the Central Powers through the Interna- 

 tional Exchange Service are resumed, and overseas shipments can be 

 delivered more promptly, that still better results can be secured. 



SMITHSONIAN OFFICE LIBRARY. 



The accessions for the office library amounted to 300 volumes and 

 7 pamphlets, not including the set of publications of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington, numbering more than 300 volumes, which 

 has been placed on deposit by Secretary Walcott. In order to pro- 

 vide adequate shelving space for these volumes it was necessary to 

 rearrange the books already in the reference room, and as a result, 

 practically all of the shelving space is now occupied. The circula- 

 tion of books in the reference room was 218 volumes. 



