REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



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Shipments of Uuited States Congressional publications were made on November 

 7, 1896, and April 10, 1897, to the GoA^ernments of the following-named countries : 

 Argentina. Colombia. Netherlands. Spain. 



Austria. Denmark. New South Wales. Sweden. 



Baden. France. New Zealand. Switzerland. 



Bavaria. Germany. Norway. Tasmania. 



Belgium. England. Peru. Uruguay. 



Buenos Ayres, Prov- Haiti. Portugal. Venezuela. 



ince of. Hungary. Prussia. Victoria. 



Brazil. India. Queensland. Western Australia. 



Canada (Ottawa). Italy. Russia. Wiirtemberg. 



Canada (Toronto). Japan. Saxony. 



Chile. Mexico. South Australia. 



Shipments to Greece and Turkey are temporarily suspended. 



Recapitulation. 



Cases. 



Total Government shipments 110 



Total miscellaneous shipments 1, 190 



Total shipments 1, 300 



Total shipments last year 1, 043 



Increase over last year , 257 



Respectfully submitted. 



Richard Rathbun, 

 Assistant Secretary in Chauje of Office and Exchanges. 

 Mr. S. P. Langley, 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



