98 ANNUAL EEPOET SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1913. 



during which time they were, nevertheless, avaihible for use by 

 readers and the delivery of books to the sectional libraries was not 

 interrupted. For moving, the books were tied together in lots of con- 

 venient size for handling, and each lot received a number. It was 

 then a simple matter to put the books in their proper places on the 

 shelves in the new library. After they were in place, the library 

 was fortunately able to employ temporary assistants to go OA^er them 

 all for the purpose of checking up the various series and ascertaining 

 whether the volumes were all present and in their proper sequence. 



The arrangement of the cards belonging to the Zurich catalogue of 

 scientific literature has been perfected, and they are now available for 

 reference. 



In accordance with the plans decided upon, as mentioned in last 

 year's report, the books on museum administration, technology, his- 

 tory, botany, and some other subjects were allowed to remain in the 

 old quarters, where they would be most readily accessible to the mem- 

 bers of the staff and others working in those lines. It is the inten- 

 tion, however, to transfer the botanical books to the new stacks in the 

 Smithsonian Building as soon as the latter shall have been com- 

 pleted. 



This portion of the library was reaiTanged and recataloguead as 

 rapidly as possible, and with the aid of additional help the publica- 

 tions had been classified on the shelves at the close of the year and 

 about one-half of them recatalogued. The following work in this 

 direction was accomplished during the year: Books catalogued, 

 1,370; pamphlets, 2,416; total number of cards made, 3,132. Com- 

 pleted volumes of periodicals catalogued, 2,938; parts of publications, 

 19.050; total number of cards made, 1,117. 



During the year 881 volumes were prepared for binding and sent 

 to the Government bindery for that purpose. 



Many important gifts w^ere received by the library during the year, 

 and the following members of the staff presented publications : Sec- 

 retary Charles D. Walcott, Dr. Theodore N. Gill, Dr. William H. 

 Dall, Mr. Robert Ridgway, Dr. C. W. Richmond, Dr. J. C. Crawford, 

 Dr. O. P. Hay, and Mr. W. R. Maxon. 



The Museum library now contains 43,692 volumes, 72,042 unbound 

 papers, and 122 manuscripts. The accessions during the year covered 

 by this report consisted of 1,690 books, 2,213 pamphlets, and 159 

 parts of volumes. The number catalogued, exclusive of those men- 

 tioned above, was as follows: 782 books, 892 complete volumes of 

 periodicals, and 2,229 pamphlets. 



The number of books, periodicals, and pamphlets borrowed from 

 the general library amounted to 25,846, among wdiich were 3,888 

 obtained from the Library of Congress, 117 from the Department of 



