34 ANNUAL EEPOET SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1913. 



of 17 annual volumes which form an index to current scientific 

 literature. 



The catalogue is not of a commercial character, but by economical 

 methods of administration, and partly through the revenue obtained 

 from subscriptions to the series of volumes, it is hoped that the 

 enterprise will be self-supporting with the exception of the general 

 expenses of the regional bureaus in gathering the data. 



The United States bureau sent to the central bureau during the 

 past year 27,995 cards, making a total of 290,330 cards forwarded from 

 this country since the work was begun in 1901. The total number of 

 classified citations received at the central bureau in London from 

 1901 to 1913 was about 2,500,000. 



Although the congressional appropriation for the bureau is in- 

 tended primarily for maintaining a purely scientific international 

 enterprise, yet, without added expense, the bureau is of value to the 

 public as a source of general information on many scientific subjects. 

 The Smithsonian Institution is in constant receipt of requests for in- 

 formation on a very great variety of topics, and since it is the pur- 

 pose of the International Catalogue to collect and classify the pub- 

 lished results of scientific investigation many of these inquiries are 

 referred for reply to this bureau. 



NECKOLOGY. 



JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT SHERMAN. 



At the annual meeting of the Regents on December 12, 1912, the 

 following resolutions were adopted to the memory of Vice President 

 Sherman : 



Whereas the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution have received the 

 sad intelligence of the death on October 30, 1912, of James Schoolcraft Sher- 

 man, Vice President of the United States and Chancellor of the Institution, 

 therefore, be it 



Resolved, That in the passing away of this distinguished official the country 

 has lost a man whose unsullied public career and blameless private life marked 

 him as one of the best exemplars of the highest type of American patriotism 

 and citizenship ; while this Institution has been deprived of the association of a 

 Regent and presiding officer whose loyalty to its purposes and zeal in its interests 

 have been an inspiration to his colleagues. 



Resolved, That we tender to the family of Mr. Sherman our respectful and 

 sincere sympathy in their great bereavement, 



Resolved, That an engrossed copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the 

 family of the late chancellor. 



James Schoolcraft Sherman, LL.D., born in Utica, N. Y., October 

 24, 1855, became a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution upon taking 

 the oath of office as Vice President of the United States on March 4, 



1909, and was elected Chancellor of the Institution on December 8, 



1910, as successor to Chancellor Melville Weston Fuller, Chief Justice 



