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years, owing to tne crowded condition; but within tlie past year the additional gal- 

 leries i^rovided have been turned over, thus giving the space needed for this pur- 

 pose. All the shelves have been gone over, the books taken down and placed in 

 the classification, making them more accessible, and a large number belonging to 

 the Smithsonian deposit were separated from the Museum books and sent over 

 to the Smithsonian Institution for checking preparatory to their being transmitted 

 to the Library of Congress. 



Three special collections of books in the library have been provided with book- 

 plates — i. e., the Goode Library, the Schwarz Library, and the Ball Library. 



The ]\Iuseuni library now contains 19,161 bound volumes and 32,063 unbound 

 pai)ers. The additions during the year consisted of 3,161 books, 3,260 pamphlets, 

 and 303 parts of volumes. There were catalogued 916 books, of which 76 belonged 

 to the Smithsonian deposit; 1,571 pamphlets, of which 18 belonged to the Smith- 

 sonian deposit, and 9,838 pacts of periodicals, (if which 2,274 belonged to the 

 Smithsonian deposit. 



Three thousand three liundred and sixteen cards were added to the Authors' 

 Catalogue. These numbers do not include 4,614 cards for books and pamphlets 

 recatalogued, and also do not include any of the books in the Ball library, but do 

 include a number of those in the Schwarz library. 



The number of books, pamphlets, and periodicals borrowed from the general 

 library amounted to 23,583, including 4,833 withdrawn for assignment to the 

 sectional libraries. 



There has been no cliangc in the sectional liliraries established in the Museum, 

 and thev are as follows: 



Administration. 

 Administrative, assist- 

 ant. 

 Anthropology. 

 Biology. 

 Birds. 

 Botany. 



Children's room. 

 Comparative anatomy. 

 Editor. 

 Ethnology. 



Respectf u 1 1 y subm i tted . 



Fishes. 



Geology. 



History. 



Insects. 



Mammals. 



Marine invertebrates. 



Materia medica. 



INIesozoic fossils. 



Mineralogy. 



Mollusks. 



Oriental arclia'ology. 



Paleobotany. 



Parasites. 



Photography. 



Prehistoric anthropology. 



Reptiles. 



Stratigraphic paleontology. 



Superintendent. 



Taxidermy. 



Technology. 



Cyrus Adlek, JJIn-nridn 



Mr. S. P. Langley, 



Secretary of the StnitliHurdan Indilnlio^i.. 



