REPORT OF THE SECRETARY mt 
Committee on printing and publication.—All manuscripts submit- 
ted to the Institution for publication, both papers by members of 
the staff and those by outside authors, are referred for consideration 
and recommendation to the Smithsonian advisory committee on 
printing and publication. The committee also considers matters 
of publication policy. During the past year seven meetings were 
held and 96 manuscripts were considered and acted upon. The mem- 
bership of the committee is as follows: Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, head 
curator of biology, National Museum, chairman; Dr. George P. 
Merrill, head curator of geology, National Museum; Dr. J. Walter 
Fewkes, chief, Bureau of American Ethnology; Dr. William M. 
Mann, director, National Zoological Park; Mr. W. P. True, editor 
of the Institution, secretary; Dr. Marcus Benjamin, editor of the 
National Museum; and Mr. Stanley Searles, editor of the Bureau of 
American Ethnology. 
LIBRARY 
The most important change in personnel was the appointment of 
Miss Isabel L. Towner to the position of assistant librarian in the 
National Museum to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement and 
subsequent death of Mr. Newton P. Scudder. Mr. R. Webb Noyes 
succeeded Miss Sara Young as junior librarian. The death is regret- 
fully recorded of Mr. Francis H. Parsons, for 25 years assistant in 
charge of the Smithsonian Division of the Library of Congress. 
The growth of the Smithsonian library is due almost entirely to 
the exchange of publications of the Institution for those of learned 
societies and institutions throughout the world. During the year, 
30,541 packages of publications came to the library direct by mail, 
and 7,852 through the International Exchange Service of the Insti- 
tution. The accessions of all publications totaled 10,125, which 
brings the estimate of the number of volumes, pamphlets, and charts 
in the Smithsonian library to 677,483, to say nothing of the many 
thousands of parts of volumes awaiting completion of the volumes. 
The sets of publications of learned societies in the Museum library 
were gone over and the missing numbers listed. It was found that 
many of these could be supplied from the duplicates in the Library 
of Congress, and an effort is being made to obtain the rest from 
other sources. The shelves of the main collection in the Museum 
library were arranged, a task that had not been done for years. An 
intensive effort was made to bring the filing of the Concilium bib- 
liographicum cards up to date, and much progress was made. 
Nearly 1,800 volumes were prepared for binding during the year. 
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