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East; by the life and works of James McNeil Whistler and of cer- 
tain other American painters whose pictures are owned by the 
gallery; and, further, to a very limited degree, by the Biblical 
manuscripts of the fourth and fifth centuries, which, as the posses- 
sion of the Freer Gallery, are known as the Washington manuscripts. 
During the year, 735 persons visited the library, of whom more 
than 100, including a number of college teachers and students, came 
for the purpose of serious study, many being especially interested 
in the facsimiles of the Biblical manuscripts. The library was 
increased by 500 volumes, of which 462 are in the Chinese and 
Japanese languages, and by 72 parts of volumes and 142 pamphlets. 
NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK LIBRARY 
While this library is still quite small, numbering about 1,500 vol- 
umes and pamphlets, it has been so carefully selected that it repre- 
sents a very valuable working collection. It increased the past year 
by only 9 volumes, but two of these were volumes 3 and 4 of the 
monumental work, A Natural History of the Ducks, by John C. 
Phillips. Five volumes were bound. 
SUMMARY OF ACCESSIONS 
The accessions for the year, with the exception of those to the 
library of the Bureau of American Ethnology, may be summarized 
as follows: 
Other 
Library Volumes} publica- | Total 
tions 
PANTFODUVSICG OOSOLVELOLYS sao ta- eeene ens ee ae aD AE Seay ee 105 57 162 
LUb(ar) CTE) A720) i e\) «| el On oS Ae ec ee Oe See ae | 500 214 714 
NFTTOR IMCS HALO VOL AT te cere een ees pn SS ee Bae ie ek 155 609 764 
National OULOPiCAr Parke snot 5 4 A AEE RII SORE AED. oe ed SLE 8 PRS. Ba 9 
Smithsonian deposit, Library of Congress. __..................-..---_-_-- 3, 649 1, 439 5, 088 
Borat SO PISA) OTC Cette ee 2 vee SM RAL es en We ee 243 19 262 
United States National Museum, including the technological library_-____- 1, 660 1, 466 3, 126 
Ge: eS ok SE OS Ore PRES ae eee 6, 321 3, 804 10, 125 
An estimate of the number of volumes, pamphlets, and charts in 
the Smithsonian hbrary, including the Smithsonian deposit in the 
Library of Congress, on June 30, 1926, was as follows: 
Waa lho tensile ic U2 tee ra espe ete le ee 8 als WEST es Oe 2 Cee 2 aL) RE eRe ee ae 514, 071 
Pamphlet siss soe Soe Pio PS Ei ll Tin eh pita hE ah Be le oe 139, 525 
(OVE SLAM Ae 30S oe ee ed BE Cae SC ae OS RT eS CSO eS ee STC RE 23, 887 
pSpeU Lea REE EO EI pe Pa Op ee ata ee yrs ie 677, 4838 
This number does not include the many thousands of parts of 
volumes in the library awaiting completion of the volumes. 
