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The furnishing of the library quarters in the new building was 

 completed early in the autumn of 1912, and the transfer of the books 

 and equipment intended to be kept there was soon afterwards accom- 

 plished. While designed primarily to accommodate the natural 

 history and anthropological publications, which comprise the major 

 part of the collection, this has also been constituted the main or 

 central library, where most of the general works of reference will be 

 placed and where all publications will be received and catalogued. 

 The library in the older building will hereafter be mainly restricted 

 to the subjects of history and the arts and industries. The accessions 

 of the year consisted of 1,690 books, 2,213 pamphlets, and 159 parts 

 of volumes, which increased the total contents of the library to 

 43,692 volumes and 72,042 unbound papers of all kinds. 



The facilities afforded by the new building for meetings and other 

 functions were frequently availed of. The auditorium and committee 

 rooms were used for the regular meetings of the Anthropological 

 Society of Washington, the Washington Society of the Fine Arts, and 

 the Spanish- American Atheneum, and for a course of lectures under 

 the Naval War College Extension. The annual meeting and semicen- 

 tennial anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences were held 

 in April. Of congresses and other assemblages which were accommo- 

 dated wholly or in part in the building were the Fifteenth Interna- 

 tional Congress on Hygiene and Demography; the Ninth Triennial 

 Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons; a joint meeting of 

 the American Philological Association, the Archaeological Institute 

 of America, and the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis; a 

 meeting of the American Farm-Management Association ; the Twen- 

 tieth Annual Convention of the International Kindergarten Union; 

 and a meeting of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. The 

 Department of Agriculture had the use of the auditorium for annual 

 conferences on farm management and meat inspection. Besides simi- 

 lar functions in connection with two of the above meetings, recep- 

 tions were given by the Eegents and Secretary to the members in 

 attendance at the Eighth International Congress of Applied Chem- 

 istry and the Sixth International Congress for Testing Materials, 

 and to the Daughters of the American Revolution. On the evening 

 of March 6 Mr. James Wilson, late Secretary of Agriculture, was 

 tendered a reception by the employees of the Department of Agri- 

 culture. 



Respectfully submitted. 



Richard Rathbun, 

 Assistant Secretary in Charge^ U. 8. National Museum. 



Dr. Chaples D. Walcott, 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



November 12, 1913. 



