68 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1909. 



Similar publications have been received from the technical high schools at — 



Budapest. 



Darmstadt. 



Hannover. 



Karlsruhe. 



Louvain. 



Paris. 



Prague. 

 Upsala. 

 Wiesbaden. 



In carrying out the plan to effect new exchanges and to secure missing parts 

 to complete sets, 2,396 letters were written, resulting in about 477 periodicals 

 being added to the lists and the receipt of about 3,SS3 parts lacking in the sets, 

 which partially filled or entirely completed the various series of publications 

 in the Smithsonian deposit. In writing for the missing parts of publications 

 the library has had assistance from the International Exchanges of the Institu- 

 tion, but the results of these requests can not be definitely stated, as the replies 

 from them were still coming in at the close of the year. In addition, the 

 library has cooperated with the International Exchanges in sending out lists of 

 government documents and serial publications of that class needed to complete 

 the sets in the Library of Congress to the following: Argentine Republic, 

 Austria-Hungary, Baden, Bavaria. Belgium, Bolivia, Bremen, Province of 

 Buenos Aires, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Department of the Seine and city of 

 Paris, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala. Haiti, Free City of Hamburg, 

 Grand Duchy of Hesse, Honduras, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Malta, Mexico, Monte- 

 negro, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, 

 Peru, Portugal, Prussia, Roumania, Russia, Sweden, Salvador, Saxony, city of 

 Vienna, Uruguay. Wurttemberg. 



A decided increase has been noted in the number of persons consulting the 

 publications in the reading room, and in addition there were issued, for office 

 use, 30 bound volumes of periodicals and 3,706 parts of scientific periodicals and 

 popular magazines, making a total of 3,736. While the consultation has been 

 chiefly by members of the staff, the various bureaus of the Government have 

 availed themselves of the opportunity to use these publications and those in 

 the sectional libraries of the Institution. 



The mail receipts numbered 28,059 packages. The publications contained 

 therein were stamped and distributed for entry from the mail desk. About 

 4.9S0 acknowledgments were made on the regular forms, which are in addition 

 to those for publications received in response to the requests of the Institu- 

 tion for exchange. 



The employees' 1 Horary. — The books added numbered 19, and of these 18 were 

 purchased, while 110 volumes of periodicals were bound. The number of books 

 borrowed was 1,922, and the sending of a selected number of books from this 

 library to the National Zoological Park and the Bureau of American Ethnology 

 has been continued. 



Art room. — The cataloguing of the collection of engravings in the art room 

 received attention as time would allow, but there still remains a great deal to 

 be done. 



Bibliography of aeronautics. — The bibliography of aeronautical literature, 

 which includes the indexing of papers in periodicals and proceedings of aero- 

 nautical societies, together with books and separate pamphlets on the subject, 

 was completed, bringing the work up to July 1, 1909. At the close of the year 

 the manuscript was ready for the printer. 



American Historical Association, — The exchange of the annual reports of the 

 American Historical Association from the allotment agreed upon for that pur- 

 pose has resulted in a number of publications of historical societies throughout 

 the world being added to the Smithsonian deposit at the Library of Congress. 



UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The library of the Museum has received many gifts of importance during the 

 year. Dr. Charles A. White, Dr. William Healey Dall. and Dr. Charles W. 



