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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 19 3 5 



They filed 469 cards of the Wistar Institute and 3,774 of the Concil- 

 ium Bibliographicum, besides sorting 8,871 of the latter for the 

 subject files of the curators. They assigned to the sectional libraries 

 4,233 current publications — as well as 6,512 reprints that had accumu- 

 lated over a period of years — and lent to the scientific staff 9,636, of 

 which 2,489 were borrowed from the Library of Congress, especially 

 the Smithsonian deposit, and 442 from other libraries, including 15 

 from outside of Washington. They made 436 loans to other libra- 

 ries — an increase of 326 over the year before. They also assisted the 

 libraries of the Bureau of American Ethnology, National Gallery 

 of Art, and National Zoological Park, and advanced materially the 

 work of reorganizing the general collection on technology and the 

 special collections on administration and engineering in the old 

 Museum. The requests for reference and bibliographical service 

 were more numerous than usual and frequently required hours and 

 even days of research not only in the Museum library but in the 

 Library of Congress and elsewhere. 



The sectional libraries, which number 35, were not changed during 

 the year. They are as follows : 



Administration 



Administrative assistant's oflSce 



Agricultural history 



Anthropology 



Archeology 



Biology 



Birds 



Botany 



Echinoderms 



Editor's oflSce 



Engineering 



Ethnology 



Fishes 



Foods 



Geology 



Graphic Arts 



History 



Insects 



Invertebrate paleontology 



Mammals 



Marine invertebrates 



Medicine 



Minerals 



Mollusks 



Organic chemistry 



Paleobotany 



Photography 



Physical anthropology 



Property clerk's oflSce 



Reptiles and batrachians 



Superintendent's oflBce 



Taxidermy 



Textiles 



"Vertebrate paleontology 



Wood technology 



OFFICE LIBRARY 



The Smithsonian office library is shelved partly in or near the 

 ofiices of the administrative staff and in the main reference and 

 exhibition rooms of the Institution, and partly in the library of 

 the old Museum. It numbers approximately 30,000 items and com- 

 prises, in addition to an extensive collection of works of general 

 reference and publications of learned institutions and societies, a 

 small rare-book collection, several important special collections on 

 history and the natural sciences, and many books and periodicals 



