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The following table shows the number of cards sent each year as 

 well as the number of cards representing the literature of each year 

 from 1901 to 1912, inclusive : 



Control over the catalogue is vested in a body known as the Inter- 

 national Convention which has held two meetings in London, the 

 last being in 1910. In the intervals between the meetings of this 

 body the administration of the catalogue is directed by the Interna- 

 tional Council expected to meet in London once in thre^ years and to 

 which each country represented by a regional bureau is requested to 

 send a representative. 



Meetings of the International Council were held in 1904, 1907, and 

 in 1909, and a meeting of the International Convention was held 

 in 1910, so that a meeting of the International Council was planned 

 for 1913. This meeting, by a vote of the executive committee, was 

 postponed until 1914, as a number of new plans for the reduction of 

 cost and increasing the efficiency of the catalogue were either just 

 going into effect, or had been in operation but a short time, and it 

 was felt that the later date would give the members of the council 

 a better opportunity to judge their value. 

 Very respectfully, 



Leonard C. Gunnell, 



Assistant' in Charge. 



Dr. Charles D. Walcott, 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



