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Straits Settlements : Colonial Secretary, Singapore. 

 Siam : Department of Foreign Affairs, Bangkok. 

 Vienna : Biirgermeister der flaupt- und Residenz-Stadt. 



CORRESPONDENTS. 



The record of exchange correspondents at the close of the year contained 

 62,630 addresses, being an increase of 2,507 over the preceding year. A table 

 showing the number of correspondents in each country at the close of 1907 will 

 be found in the report for that year. 



LIST OP BUREAUS OR AGENCIES THROUGH WHICH EXCHANGES ARE TRANSMITTED. 



Following is a list of bureaus or agencies abroad through which the distribu- 

 tion of exchanges is effected. Those in the larger and many in the smaller 

 countries forward to the Smithsonian Institution in return contributions for 

 distribution in the United States : 

 Algeria, via France. 

 Angola, via Portugal. 

 Argentina : Presidente de la Comisi6n Protectora de Bibliotecas Populares, 



Ministerio de Instruccion Ptiblica, Buenos Aires. 

 Austria : K. K. Statistische Central-Commission, Vienna. 

 Azores, via Portugal. 



Barbados : Imperial Department of Agriculture, Bridgetown. 

 Belgium : Service Beige des Echanges Internationaux, Brussels. 

 Bermuda. (Sent by mail.) 

 Bolivia : Oflcina Nacional de Inmigracion, Estadistica y Propaganda Geogr&fica, 



La Paz. 

 Brazil : Servigo de Perniutacoes Internacionaes, Bibliotheca Nacional, Rio de 



Janeiro. 

 British Colonies : Crown Agents for the Colonies, London.* 

 British Guiana : Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society, Georgetown. 

 British Honduras: Colonial Secretary, Belize. 

 Bulgaria : Institutions et Bibliotheque Scientifiques de S. A. R. le Prince de 



Bulgarie, Sofia. 

 Canada. (Sent by mail.) 

 Canary Islands, via Spain. 



Cape Colony : Government Stationery Department, Cape Town. 

 Chile: Servicio de Canjes Internacionales, Biblioteca Nacional, Santiago. 

 China : Zi-ka-wei Observatory, Shanghai. 

 Colombia: Oficina de Canjes Internacionales y Reparto, Biblioteca Nacional, 



Bogota. 

 Costa Rica : Oficina de Deposito y Canje de Publicaciones, San Jose. 

 Cuba. (Sent by mail.) 



Denmark: Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Copenhagen. 

 Dutch Guiana : Surinaamsche Koloniale Bibliotheek, Paramaribo. 

 Ecuador : Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Quito. 

 Egypt: Director-General, Survey Department, Giza (Mudiria). 

 France : Service Frangais des Echanges Internationaux, Paris. 

 Friendly Islands. (Sent by mail.) 

 Germany : Karl W. Hiersemann, Konigsstrasse 29, Leipzig. 



°This method is employed for communicating with several of the British 

 colonies with which no medium is available for forwarding exchanges direct. 



