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contain many items that are lacking in its sets. Gifts also came 

 from Secretary Abbot, Assistant Secretary Wetmore, and the fol- 

 lowing other members and associates of the scientific staff: Dr. 

 Paul Bartsch, Dr. K. S. Bassler, Dr. A. G. Boving, August Busck, 

 A. H. Clark, H. B. Collins, W. L. Corbin, F. E. Fowle, Dr. Herbert 

 Friedmann, L. C. Gunnell, Dr. Walter Hough, Dr. Ales Hrdiicka, 

 Neil M. Judd, Dr. Kemington Kellogg, Leon Kelso, Dr. E. G. 

 Kirk, Dr. W. C. Mansfield, Dr. W. R. Maxon, G. S. Miller, Jr., Dr. 

 G. S. Myers, A. J. Olmsted, R. G. Paine, Dr. Mary J. Rathbun, and 

 Dr. Waldo Schmitt. 



SMITHSONIAN DEPOSIT 



The Smithsonian deposit is the main library of the Institution. 

 The collection was kept at the Smithsonian until 1866 when, under a 

 special act of Congress, it was deposited in the Library of Congress, 

 where it has steadily grown, by regular additions from the Institu- 

 tion, from 40,000 volumes, pamphlets, and charts to 540,000. It is 

 distributed among the various divisions of the Library according to 

 the nature of the material, but, as the deposit is largely scientific and 

 technical in character and abounds in the reports, proceedings, and 

 transactions of the learned institutions and societies of the world 

 and in periodicals, both American and foreign, it is shelved for the 

 most part in the Smithsonian and Periodical Divisions. It is the 

 great central collection on which the other libraries of the Institution 

 rely almost daily for necessary publications, many of which can be 

 obtained nowhere else in Washington and some in few other places 

 in America. 



To the deposit the Smithsonian library added during the fiscal 

 year just closed 16,500 items, consisting of 2,639 volumes, 9,148 parts 

 of volumes, 3,128 pamphlets, and 1,585 maps and charts. As in 

 former years, several thousand statistical documents that the library 

 received from foreign governments were forwarded, mainly un- 

 opened, to the Division of Documents in the Library of Congress. 



NATIONAL MUSEUM LIBRARY 



Next in importance to the deposit, among the libraries of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, is the library of the United States National 

 Museum. At the close of the year it numbered 88,377 volumes and 

 112,693 pamphlets, chiefly on natural history and technology. The 

 additions were 11,321 publications, or 1,639 volumes, 8,697 parts of 

 volumes, 980 pamphlets, and 5 charts. The staff sent 101 volumes 

 to the bindery, recorded 8,709 periodicals, cataloged 2,592 publica- 

 tions, and added 21,896 cards to the main catalogs and shelf lists. 



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