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not only for current accessions, but, as fast as data can be supplied, 

 for those which are needed for recataloguing the entire library. 

 When this work, thus greatly expedited, is complete, it will be pos- 

 sible, at small cost, to have at all the laboratories and stations a 

 complete catalogue both of the Bureau's books of reference and its 

 publications. 



The Library of Congress donated some 400 volumes of standard 

 and popular works from its duplicates for the benefit of the Govern- 

 ment employees, native inhabitants, and school children on the Pribi- 

 lof Islands, and many books and periodicals were obtained from 

 private sources for the same purpose. These donations were espe- 

 cially acceptable, as there is no appropriation which can be used for 

 such purposes. 



CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION. 



On May 12, 1911,, the House of Representatives adopted the fol- 

 lowing resolution : 



Resolved, That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor be, and he is hereby, 

 directed to furnish for the use and the information of the House of Representa- 

 tives copies of all letters received, reports, and documents from his agents in 

 charge of the seal islands of Alaska, together with copies of all instructions 

 given to those officials aforesaid since January first, nineteen hundred and four, 

 up to date, which relate to the condition and management of the fur-seal herd, 

 the conduct of the officers of the Government in charge of it, and the conduct 

 of the work of the lessees on the seal islands aforesaid, since January first, nine- 

 teen hundred and four, up to date. 



The correspondence and other papers called for by this resolution 

 were promptly collected, and on June 24, 1911, were transmitted by 

 the Secretary to the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The 

 material consisted of about 2,500 pages of manuscript, and was 

 printed as House Document No. 93, Sixty-second Congress, first ses- 

 sion (1,232 pages). 



The resolution was based on certain charges that had been made 

 by outside persons affecting the administration of the seal islands, 

 and the inquiry thereunder was assigned to the Committee on Ex- 

 penditures in the Department of Commerce and Labor. The first 

 hearing was held on May 31, and the investigation was in progress 

 at the close of the fiscal year. 



APPROPRIATIONS. 



The total appropriations for the fiscal year 1911 amounted to 

 $1,003,470, as follows: 



Salaries : 



General $335, 740 



Alaska salmon fisheries 6,300 



Alaska seal fisheries 14,430 



