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the Imperial Library at Tokyo. The regular series of official documents, as 

 well as all publications for distribution in Japan, are therefore now forwarded 

 to that library. 



An application received by the Institution from the under secretary to the 

 Government of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, Allahabad, India, for 

 copies of such United States official publications as might be of interest to it 

 was favorably acted upon by the Library of Congress, and that Government was 

 added to the list of those countries receiving partial sets of governmental 

 documents. The first shipment, consisting of six boxes, was forwarded to 

 the under secretary on October 11, 1910. 



Two cases forwarded from Washington in October, 1910, containing exchanges 

 for miscellaneous addresses in New South Wales, were destroyed in transit 

 to that country, the steamship by which the consignment was transmitted 

 having been burned at sea. The senders of the packages contained in these 

 cases were communicated with, and it is gratifying to state that it was possible 

 for most of them to supply copies of the lost publications. 



The work inaugurated in 1908 of actively seeking returns from foreign 

 countries for the exchanges sent to them by this Government has resulted dur- 

 ing the year in the acquisition of important collections of publications for the 

 Library of Congress and for several other establishments of the Government. 



About 10,000 foreign governmental documents of a statistical character, re- 

 turned by the Library of Congress as duplicates, have been stored for some 

 time in the Smithsonian Institution. These books were arranged and listed 

 during the year under the direction of the assistant librarian, while the 

 Exchange Service, through which the documents were received from abroad, 

 provided the extra clerical assistance required. Upon completion of this work 

 most of the documents were forwarded to the New York Public Library to 

 complete its series of foreign governmental publications. 



FOREIGN DEPOSITORIES OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENTAL DOCUMENTS. 



In accordance with treaty stipulations and under the authority of the con- 

 gressional resolutions of March 2, 1867, and March 2, 1901, setting apart a 

 certain number of documents for exchange with foreign countries, there are 

 now sent regularly to depositories abroad 55 full sets of United States official 

 publications and 34 partial sets, the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh 

 having been added during the year to the list of countries receiving partial sets. 



The recipients of full and partial sets are as follows : 



DEPOSITORIES OF FULL SETS. 



Argentina : Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Buenos Aires. 



Argentina : Biblioteca de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. 



Australia : Library of the Commonwealth Parliament, Melbourne. 



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



Baden : Universitats-Bibliothek, Freiburg. 



Bavaria : Konigliche Hof- und Staats-Bibliothek, Munich. 



Belgium : Bibliotheque Royale, Brussels. 



Brazil : Bibliotheca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. 



Canada : Parliamentary Library, Ottawa. 



Cape Colony: Government Stationery Department, Cape Town. 



Chile : Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional, Santiago. 



China : American-Chinese Publication Exchange Department, Shanghai Bureau 



of Foreign Affairs, Shanghai. 

 Colombia : Biblioteca Nacional, Bogota. 

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



