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  ANNUAL 
  KEPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1927 
  

  

  Graz, 
  Greifswald, 
  Johns 
  Hopkins, 
  Leipzig, 
  Warburg, 
  Neiicliatel, 
  

   Pennsylvania, 
  Strasbourg, 
  and 
  Ziirich 
  ; 
  and 
  from 
  technical 
  schools 
  at 
  

   Berlin, 
  Charlottenburg, 
  Delft, 
  and 
  Freiberg. 
  

  

  SMITHSONIAN 
  DEPOSIT 
  

  

  As 
  has 
  been 
  said, 
  the 
  main 
  division 
  of 
  the 
  library 
  of 
  the 
  Institu- 
  

   tion 
  is 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  deposit 
  in 
  the 
  Library 
  of 
  Congress. 
  This 
  

   is, 
  of 
  course, 
  distributed 
  according 
  to 
  classification, 
  but 
  because 
  of 
  

   its 
  prevailingly 
  scientific 
  nature 
  it 
  is 
  chiefly 
  in 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  

   division, 
  -which 
  was 
  established 
  in 
  1900 
  to 
  take 
  care 
  of 
  it, 
  in 
  common 
  

   with 
  the 
  scientific 
  publications 
  belonging 
  to 
  the 
  Library 
  of 
  Congress. 
  

  

  This 
  collection, 
  which 
  began 
  with 
  the 
  deposit 
  of 
  40,000 
  volumes 
  

   by 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  in 
  18G6, 
  under 
  authorization 
  of 
  an 
  

   act 
  of 
  Congress, 
  has 
  grown 
  by 
  almost 
  daily 
  additions 
  from 
  the 
  Insti- 
  

   tution 
  until 
  it 
  has 
  come 
  to 
  hold 
  a 
  foremost 
  place 
  among 
  libraries 
  of 
  

   its 
  kind, 
  being 
  especially 
  rich 
  in 
  the 
  reports, 
  proceedings, 
  and 
  trans- 
  

   actions 
  of 
  learned 
  institutions 
  and 
  societies 
  the 
  world 
  over. 
  

  

  The 
  publications 
  sent 
  to 
  the 
  deposit 
  by 
  the 
  Institution 
  during 
  the 
  

   last 
  fiscal 
  year 
  numbered 
  5,790, 
  of 
  which 
  4,046 
  were 
  complete 
  vol- 
  

   umes, 
  329 
  parts 
  of 
  volumes, 
  147 
  pamphlets, 
  and 
  268 
  charts. 
  These 
  

   represented 
  a 
  gain 
  over 
  the 
  year 
  before 
  of 
  702, 
  more 
  than 
  one-half 
  

   of 
  which 
  were 
  complete 
  volumes. 
  Documents 
  of 
  foreign 
  govern- 
  

   ments, 
  chiefly 
  statistical 
  in 
  character, 
  to 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  about 
  7,500, 
  

   were 
  also 
  sent, 
  without 
  being 
  stamped 
  or 
  entered, 
  to 
  the 
  document 
  

   division 
  of 
  the 
  Library 
  of 
  Congress. 
  In 
  response 
  to 
  special 
  requests 
  

   from 
  the 
  SmithsQiiian 
  division, 
  the 
  periodical 
  division, 
  and 
  the 
  order 
  

   division 
  of 
  the 
  Library 
  of 
  Congress 
  for 
  publications 
  needed 
  to. 
  com- 
  

   plete 
  sets 
  in 
  the 
  deposit, 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  library 
  was 
  able 
  to 
  obtain 
  

   by 
  exchange 
  495 
  volumes 
  and 
  602 
  parts 
  of 
  volumes, 
  including 
  title- 
  

   pages 
  and 
  indexes. 
  

  

  OFFICE 
  LIBRARY 
  ^ 
  

  

  The 
  office 
  library 
  is 
  made 
  up 
  of 
  the 
  society 
  publications 
  that 
  are 
  

   kept 
  in 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Building, 
  the 
  art-room 
  collection, 
  the 
  em- 
  

   ployees' 
  library, 
  and 
  various 
  books, 
  mainly 
  of 
  a 
  reference 
  nature, 
  

   assigned 
  for 
  special 
  use 
  to 
  other 
  divisions 
  of 
  the 
  library 
  or 
  to 
  the 
  

   administrative 
  offices 
  of 
  the 
  Institution. 
  To 
  this 
  library 
  were 
  added 
  

   during 
  the 
  year 
  146 
  volumes, 
  3 
  parts 
  of 
  volumes, 
  and 
  10 
  pamphlets. 
  

   The 
  circulation 
  was 
  2,228, 
  of 
  which 
  1,941 
  were 
  magazines. 
  Many 
  

   volumes 
  were 
  consulted 
  in 
  the 
  reference 
  room. 
  

  

  Among 
  the 
  noteworthy 
  gifts 
  to 
  the 
  library 
  were 
  the 
  following: 
  

   New 
  Coptic 
  Texts 
  from 
  the 
  Monastery 
  of 
  St. 
  Macarius, 
  and 
  the 
  Mon- 
  

   astery 
  of 
  Epiphanius 
  at 
  Thebes, 
  from 
  the 
  Metropolitan 
  Museum 
  of 
  

   Art; 
  the 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Philatelic 
  Library 
  of 
  the 
  Earl 
  of 
  Crawford, 
  

   together 
  with 
  a 
  supplement, 
  compiled 
  by 
  E. 
  D. 
  Bacon 
  and 
  presented 
  

  

  