ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 35 
ing the year 1,195 volumes were sent to the bindery, and of 
these 695 were bound and returned to the bureau. 
The endeavor to supply deficiencies in the sets of publica- 
tions of institutions of learning has continued without 
remission. Among the more important accessions of this 
kind during the year were Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft fiir 
Erdkunde zu Berlin, 20 volumes; Instituto Geografico 
Argentino, Boletin, 10 volumes; and K@6nigliches Museum 
fir Véolkerkunde, Veréffentlichungen, 8 volumes. 
The librarian has prepared a monthly bulletin of accessions 
for the use of the staff, and has furnished information and 
compiled bibliographic notes for the use of correspondents. 
In addition to the constant drafts on the library of the 
bureau requisition was made on the Library of Congress dur- 
ing the year for an aggregate of 300 volumes for official use, 
and in turn the bureau library was frequently consulted by 
officers of other Government establishments. 
An appropriation having been made by Congress, in 
behalf of the Institution, for installing modern steel book- 
stacks in the eastern end of the large exhibition hall on the 
first floor of the Smithsonian building, and provision having 
been made for affording the proposed increased facilities to 
the library of the bureau, which for four and a half years 
had been installed in the eastern galleries of the hall men- 
tioned, the books therein were removed in February to the 
gallery and main floor of the western end of the hall and the 
eastern galleries were demolished. Although this work of 
removal occupied two weeks, it was done without confusion 
and practically without cessation of the library’s activities. 
The new stacks were in process of erection before the close 
of the fiscal year. 
COLLECTIONS 
The following collections were acquired by the bureau or 
by members of its staff, and, having served the purpose of 
study were transferred to the National Museum, as required 
by law. 
Eight fragments of ancient British pottery. Gift to the bureau by 
Rev. Robert C. Nightingale, Swaffam, Norfolk, England. (55735.) 
