EEPORT OF THE SECRETARY:. 



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exchange bureaus, they are compelled to forward their reciprocal contributions 

 correspondents in the United States by post. 



The names of 

 new correspond- 

 ents in every part 

 of the Morld are 

 constantly being 

 added to the ex- 

 change list, so that 

 they now reach a 

 total of 44,012, 

 subdivided as fol- 

 lows: Foreign in- 

 stitutions, 13,121; 

 foreign individ- 

 uals, 21,332; do- 

 mestic institu- 

 tions, 3,319; and 

 domestic individ- 

 uals, 6,240. De- 

 tails by countries 

 will be found in a 

 subjoined table. 



These corre- 

 spondents should 

 not be considered 

 as participating in 

 an exchange with 

 the Smithsonian 

 Institution itself, 

 but are the bene- 

 ficiaries of the fa- 

 cilities of the Ex- 

 change Service at 

 home and abroad. 



In 1897 a list of 

 institutions in 

 other countries, 

 then numbering 

 nearly 9,500, was 

 printed for the use 

 of the United 

 States Exchange 

 Service and sim- 

 ilar bureaus 

 a'jroad, and has 

 been found to be 

 of great use in fa- 

 cilitating their op- 

 erations. During 

 the succeeding six 



to 



Fig. 3.— Chart showing the number of packagt'S trausmitted through the 

 International Exchange Service each year from 1888 to 1903, inclusive. 



years, however, so many new names have been added that it has been found neces- 

 sary to revise the list and to publish a new edition, the expense of which has been 

 provided from the private funds of the Institution. 



