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were also for varying periods during the year several student assist- 

 ants, including one assigned to the library by the school of library 

 science of Simmons College, and a number of F. E. K. A, workers. 



EXCHANGE OF PUBLICATIONS 



The exchange work of the library continued much as usual. The 

 number of packages, each of one or more publications, that came 

 by mail was 20,376 — a gain of 332 over 1934; and through the In- 

 ternational Exchange Service, 1,880 — a loss of 96. Of especial value 

 to the Smithsonian deposit and the library of the National Museum 

 were the sendings from the Arctic Institute, Leningrad ; the Frank- 

 lin Institute, Philadelphia; the Peabody Museum, Cambridge; the 

 Geografsko Drustvo na Univerzi and Slovenska Matica, Ljubljana; 

 the Sociedad Cientifica Argentina, Buenos Aires; and the Tokyo 

 Geographical Society, Tokyo. Among the publications received 

 were 4,787 dissertations. These came from the Academy of Freiberg, 

 the universities of Basel, Berlin, Bern, Bomi, Breslau, Budapest, 

 Erlangen, Freiburg, Giessen, Greifswald, Halle, Heidelberg, Helsing- 

 fors, Jena, Johns Hopkins, Kiel, Konigsberg, Koln, Lund, Marburg, 

 Pennsylvania, Rostock, Tiibingen, Utrecht, and Ziirich; and tech- 

 nical schools at Berlin, Braunschweig, Delft, Dresden, Karlsruhe, 

 and Ziirich. The number of letters written was 2,135. The library 

 arranged for 264 new exchanges — 26 more than the year before — 

 and obtained 6,728 publications — an increase of 2,614 over 1934 — 

 especially requested by the various libraries of the Institution. 

 Many of these items, however, it should be explained, were found 

 among the Smithsonian duplicates. 



GIFTS 



As usual, there were many gifts. Prominent among them was a 

 copy of the Yellow Book of Lecan, edited by Robert Atkinson, from 

 the Royal Irish Academy. Others were Corpus Doctrinae Christianae 

 (1570), by Philippum Melanthonem, from Mrs. Charles D, Walcott; 

 Letters of Sir Thomas Bodley to Thomas James, First Keeper of 

 the Bodleian Library, edited by G. W. Wheeler, from the librarian 

 of the Bodleian ; Catalogue of the Sanskrit and Prakrit Manuscripts 

 in the Library of the India Office, volume 2, Brahmanical and Jaina 

 Manuscripts (parts 1-2), by Arthur B. Keith, from the Secretary of 

 State for India in Council; A Glossary of the Construction, Deco- 

 ration, and Use of Arms and Armor, by George Cameron Stone, from 

 the author; Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies 

 in the War of the Rebellion, in 31 volumes, from the Woman's Col- 

 lege Library, Duke University; The Flora of the Niagara Frontier 

 Region, by Charles A. Zenkert, from the author; the Lichen Flora 



