86 EEPORT OF THE SECRET AEY. 



The universities at the following places have sent inaugui'al dissertations and aca- 

 demic publications: 



Baltimore (Johns Hop- Ithaca (Cornell). St. Petersburg. 



kins). Jena. Strasburg. 



Basel. Kazan. Toronto. 



Berlin. Konigsberg. Toulouse. 



Breslau. Leipzig. Utrecht. 



Erlangen. ]\Iarburg. Vienna. 



Freiburg. Oxford. Wasliington, D. C. (Cath- 



Halle a Saal. Philadelphia (University of olic University). 



Heidelberg. Pennsylvania). Zurich. 



Helsingfors. Rostock. 



Owing to the large number of series and parts of sets culled from tlie Museum 

 library and sent to the Library of Congress for the Smithsonian deposit during the 

 year the Office has been occupied with the checking off and making memoranda for 

 the completing of these sets. While this has taken a great deal of time, the policy 

 carrieu.1 on from year to year of increasing the library by exchange has been con- 

 tinued, and though, for the above reason, there is quite a decrease in the number of 

 letters written for new exchanges and for completing series already in the library, 

 the total reached 714. Two hundred and sixty-five periodicals were added to the 

 receipts and 239 defective series v^'ere either completed or partly completed, depend- 

 ing upon the pubHsher's ability to supply the numbers needed. Where certain 

 numbers of periodicals are reported as missing, a request that they be supplied is 

 made on a postal card and corresponding cards are sent in acknowledgment of 

 receipts. During the year 654 numbers were asked for and 424 supplied. 



The books in the reference rooni containing the proceedings and transactions of 

 the learned societies have been taken from the shelves and rearranged in more sys- 

 tematic order. These books have been consulted by meml^ers of tlie staff of the 

 Institution as well as by others. In the reading room the additional shelving has 

 allowed a better arrangement of the bound volumes of periodicals. Two thousand 

 seven hundred and forty-seven periodicals were taken out for consultation. No 

 additional ]iV)raries have been added to the list and those maintained in the Institu- 

 tion are the Secretary's library. Office library, and the Employee's library. The 

 sectional libraries remain as before, i. e., ^rodromics, International Exchange, and 

 Law Reference. 



The sectional library of the Astropliysical Observatory was given a thorough over- 

 hauling and many volumes belonging to the Smithsonian deposit not being needed 

 for use there were sent to the Library of Congress. As special help was provided, 

 many of the missing parts of publications were noted and ordered, and at the close 

 of the yeai' most of these had been received. The number of volumes bound 

 was 184. 



The section of the lil)rary devoted to books of a popular nature for the use of tlie 

 employees has been used more than ever. The success of tlie sending of a number 

 of books to the Zoological Park once a month has more than repaid the trouble taken, 

 and 575 books were sent out in the course of the year. There are now 1,413 volumes 

 on the shelves of the library and 2,946 books were borrowed during the year; 100 

 magazines were bound and 43 new books added to the collection. 



In the reading room, cataloguing room, and entry to the employees' library open 

 shelving has been put up, in addition to that winch was already in these places, 

 giving room for expanding and for a better arrangement of the collections of books. 



Gen. John Watts de Peyster has continued to add to his already large collection of 

 books and pamphlets relating to Napoleon Bonaparte, and through his munificence 

 many rare volumes have come to enrich the library of the Smithsonian Institution. 



