REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



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ernment Departments and bureaus and sent abroad. The new Library of Congress 

 being now completed, the accumuLxtions of valuable books that for years have 

 not been made accessible for want of sufficient room, will ooon be catalogued and 

 placed upon the shelves. 



The extent to which exchanges have been effected by the bureaus of the United 

 States Government during the year is shown in the following table : 



Statement of Government exchanges during the yeai 1896-97. 



Name of bureau. 



American Historical Assoola 

 tion 



Bureau of American Ethnology . 



Bureau of American RepubKcs. 



Bureau of Education 



Bureau of Equipment, Navy 

 Department 



Bureau of Medicine and Sur- 

 gery 



Bureau of the Mint 



Bureau of Navigation 



Bureau of Ordnance, Navy De- 

 partment 



Bureau of Statistics, Depart- 

 ment of State 



Bureau of Statistics, Treasury 

 Department 



Bureau of Steam Engineering, 

 Navy Department 



Census Oifice 



Civil Service Commission 



Coast and Geodetic Survey 



Commissioner of "Weights and 

 Measures 



Comptroller of the Currency... 



Department of Agriculture 



Department of the Interior 



Department of Labor 



Department of State 



Entomological Commission 



Eish Commission 



General Land Oflfice 



Geological Survey 



Packages. 



Received 

 for. 



4 

 227 



45 

 83 



1 



1 



213 



17 



17 



16 



5 

 473 



Sent 

 by. 



117 



90 



5 



2 



42 



519 



4 



1,229 



300 



2 



1,926 



Name of bureau. 



Hydrographic Office 



Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion 



Library of Congress 



Life-Saving Service 



Light-House Board 



Marine-Hospital Service 



National Academy of Sciences 



National Board of Health 



National Museum 



National Zoological Park 



Nautical Almanac Office 



Naval Observatory 



Navy Department 



Office of the Chief of Engi- 

 neers, IT. S. A 



Office of Indian Affairs 



Ordnance Office, "War Depart- 

 ment 



Patent Office 



President of the United States . 



Signal Office 



Smithsonian Institution 



Superintendent of Documents - 



Surgeon-General's Office, TJ. S. 

 Army 



Treasury Department 



"War Department Library 



"War Records Office 



Weather Bureau 



Total. 



Received Sent 

 for. by. 



9 



6,260 



1 



2 



9 



79 



1 



234 



1 



16 



138 



4 



39 

 4 



2 

 49 



3 



30 



2,168 



1 



154 

 6 

 11 



10, 694 



22 



10, 800 



133 

 1,550 



3,955 



5,976 

 4 



362 



107 

 860 



30, 008 



RELATIVE INTERCHANGE OF PUBLICATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND 



FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



Since July 1, 1896, a new feature has been adopted in the system of records of the 

 Exchange Bureau, showing the number of packages exchanged between the United 

 States and each of the other countries, thus supplying information that has not here- 

 tofore been obtainable without a tedious tabulation of each year's transactions. 

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