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Another activity of considerable importance was the careful ex- 

 amination of a large accumulation of maps — the second to be treated 

 in this manner the last few years — with the result that about 500 

 were chosen for the Museum library and 1,576 sent to the Smith- 

 sonian deposit, where they would be of service in completing the 

 files of the Library of Congress and still be available to the scientists 

 of the Institution as well as to investigators outside. 



Among other activities a few should be mentioned. Special send- 

 ings of duplicates were made to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, 

 the University of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt, and the Marine Biolog- 

 ical Laboratoiy at Woods Hole, and 150 or more publications, both 

 old and new, which were needed by the National Museum and the 

 National Gallery of Art, were obtained in exchange; about 20,000 

 publications, many of them Government documents, not required 

 by the library, were sent back to the issuing bureaus or transferred 

 to various Federal libraries ; 2,750 returned publications of the Smith- 

 sonian and its branches were checked and 351 found that were needed 

 in the library sets; the dictionary index of Smithsonian publica- 

 tions was kept up to date, and considerable progress was made on 

 the index of exchange relations ; the union catalog was also advanced, 

 as the following table will show : 



Volumes cataloged 4,239 



Pamphlets cataloged 2,514 



Charts cataloged 14 



New serial entries made 121 



Typed cards added to catalog and shelf list 5, 866 



Library of Congress cards added to catalog and shelf list__ 16,085 



CONCLUSION 



The year, then, was one of noteworthy progress, despite the re- 

 grettable fact that it was again found necessary, owing to economic 

 conditions, to curtail the funds, almost to the vanishing point, cus- 

 tomarily allotted to the library for binding and for the employment 

 of extra trained assistants. 

 Respectfully submitted. 



William L. Corbin, Librarian. 

 Dr. C. G. Abbot, 



Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. 



