REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 15 



and submitted to Congress, in accordance with their acts of incorpo- 

 ration, the annual reports of the American Historical Association and 

 of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. 



LIBRARY. 



The accessions to the Smithsonian deposit in the Library of Congress 

 during the year were 1,848 volumes, 21,282 parts of volumes, 3,804 

 pamphlets, and 379 charts, or a total of 27,313, being an increase of 

 675 over the previous year, and extending the accession numbers of 

 the Smithsonian deposit to 452,465. The libraries of the Secretar}^, 

 Office and of the Astrophysical Observatory show an increase of 409 

 volumes, pamphlets, and charts, and 1,625 parts of volumes, making 

 the total Smithsonian library accessions of the year 29,347. The 

 serial publications entered on the card catalogue number 24,630. 



Gen. John Watts De Pe3^ster has added to his large collection of 

 books and pamphlets relating to Napoleon Bonapai'te, and has also pre- 

 sented a collection of works on g3'psies, a collection of dictionaries and 

 enc3'clopedias, many of which are very rare, besides several portraits, 

 pictures, and paintings. 



The National Museum library now contains 19,161 bound volumes 

 and 32,063 unbound papers. The accessions during the year were 

 3,161 books, 3,260 pamphlets, and 303 parts of volumes, which include 

 two important gifts — the E. A. Schwarz collection of books on Ameri- 

 can Coleoptera and the W. H. Dall collection of books on recent and 

 fossil mollusks. The librarian refers to these gifts in some detail in his 

 report in the Appendix. 



The Institution has continued to aid in the maintenance of the Inter- 

 national Catalogue of Scientific Literature, and a total of 14,480 ref- 

 erences were furnished to the central bureau during the vear. Five 

 volumes of the Catalogue were received and distributed. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



The correspondence of the Secretary's office embraces not onh^ com- 

 munications referring to the work of the Institution proper, l)ut also 

 to the National Museum, the International Exchanges, the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, the National Zoological Park, and the Astro- 

 physical Observatory. 



Subjects of inquir}' })y correspondents are perhaps more Aaricnl and 

 embi'ace a wider range of topics than obtains in other departments of 

 the Government, yet all are promptly answered. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



JIamilto7i fund. — I have given consideration to the difficult subject 

 of the useful disposition of the small Hamilton fund, the income of 



