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Besides these books, a collection of works on gypsies, a collection of dictionaries and 

 encyclopedias, together with several portraits, pictures, and paintings are included 

 in his gifts. IMany of the dictionaries and encyclopedias are very rare and can not 

 now be duplicated. 



At the close of last year, the extension of the Parthenon frieze in the art room was 

 under consideration, and during August and September very good casts of this frieze 

 of about the right height were obtained and jilaced upon the walls. 



The collection of books on art and kindred subjects now in the art room has 

 received a valuable addition from Dr. E. A. Schwarz, who presented a number of art 

 publications. It is hoped that in the near future time will be found for the card 

 cataloguing of this collection, as well as many other works which are already there. 



As Congress failed to approj^riate money for the representation of the United States 

 on the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, the Smithsonian Institution 

 again carried on the work, though with a sum quite insufficient for the needs and 

 the necessary help. A larger amount has been allotted for the coming year, which 

 will enable the Institution to do the work more thoroughly, and will also make it 

 possible to fill in the gaps left in the reference to the literature of 1901. The follow- 

 ing references were furnished to the central bureau: 



Literature of 1901 6, 150 



Literature of 1902 8, 330 



Total 14, 480 



The subscription account of the catalogue witliiu the United States is as follows: 



Total number of subscriptions to complete sets 62 



Total number of subscriptions to partial sets 37 



Total 99 



The following volumes of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature of 

 1901 have been received and distributed: Botany, Part I; Chemistry, Part I; 

 Mechanics; Physics, Parti; Meteorology; Physiology, Part I; Mathematics; Astron- 

 omy; Bacteriology; Physics, Part II; Mineralogy; Geology; Geography; and List of 

 Journals. 



The subscription price for these volumes represent a total of $3,926.82. Out of 

 this sum $2,556.52 had been received i.p to June 30, 1903. 



The United States National Museum library has been increased during tlie past 

 year by two important gifts — the E. A. Scliwarz collection of books, relating to Amer- 

 ican Coleoptera, and the W. H. Dall collection of books, bearing on recent and fossil 

 moUusks. The Schwarz Library is one that was built up by Doctor Schwarz and 

 G. G. Hubbard while carrying on their studies, and is intended to form an accessory 

 to their collection of insects which was presented to the Museum some years ago. 



Doctor Dall, as a collaborator in the Mu.seum, has brought together, in connection 

 with his studies on the collection of mollusks in the United States National Museum, 

 a collection of V)Ooks which comprises about 1,600 bound volumes and about 2,000 

 pamphlets. In connection witti this library Doctor Dall also ]> resents a card cata- 

 logue covering the literature of Conchology, recent and fossil, up to about 1860. He 

 purchased from the executors of Mons. (>. P. Deshayes, paleontologist, the original 

 cards, numbering about 190,000. Doctor Dall obtained this catalogue some twenty- 

 five years ago, and during the time it was in his possession he added materially to the 

 number of cards relating to the genera of mollusks, though the series relating to 

 species remains much as INIonsieur Deshayes left it. 



During the latter part of last summer the United States National Museum Library 

 was closed to the public for the purpose of rearranging the books and sorting many 

 into their proper place and series. This had been impossible during the last few 



