REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



103 



Literature of— 



1901 



1902 



1903 



1904 



1905 



1906 



1907 



1908 



1909 



1910 



1911 



1912 



Total 



for 

 year. 



Year ending June 

 30— 

 1902 



6,990 



6,150 



3,044 



1,619 



301 



384 



408 



133 



72 



3 

























6,990 



1903 ... 



8,330 



9,424 



2,780 



622 



Sll 



523 



235 



173 



26 























14,480 

 21, 213 



1904 



8,745 



11, 143 



3,538 



862 



366 



373 



248 



28 



4 



5 





















1905 



8,640 



12, 139 



5,272 



956 



309 



465 



218 



243 



12 



















24, 182 



1906 



9,001 



9,022 



5,629 



1,656 



1,163 



129 



386 



14 

















25,601 

 28,629 

 28, 528 



1907 



12,578 



7,217 



4,410 



1,502 



374 



562 



131 















1908 



13, 429 

 8,509 

 3,160 



423 

 1,480 



226 













1909 



18, 784 

 6,305 

 1,301 

 1,949 

 324 











34, 409 



1910 



11,994 



8,836 



3,372 



685 









25, 082 



1911 



14, 682 

 5,231 

 3,214 







26, 020 



1912 



13,974 

 6,950 



16,425 



27, 201 



1913 





9 



27, 995 









Total 



19, 104 



22,633 25,312 



28, 254 



27,000 



26, 774 



27,227 



28, 663 



24, 887 



23,127 



20, 924 



16, 425 



290,330 



Control over the catalogue is vested in a body known as the Inter- 

 national Convention which has held two meetings in London, the 

 last being in 1910. In the intervals between the meetings of this 

 body the administration of the catalogue is directed by the Interna- 

 tional Council expected to meet in London once in three years and to 

 which each country represented by a regional bureau is requested 

 to send a representative. 



Meetings of the International Council were held in 1904, 1907, and 

 in 1909, and a meeting of the International Convention was held 

 in 1910, so that a meeting of the International Council was planned 

 for 1913. This meeting, by a vote of the executive committee, was 

 postponed until 1914, as a number of new plans for the reduction of 

 cost and increasing the efficiency of the catalogue were either just 

 going into effect, or had been in operation but a short time, and it 

 was felt that the later date would give the members of the council 

 a better opportunity to judge their value. 

 Very respectfully, yours, 



Leonard C. Gunnell, 



Assistant in Charge. 



Dr. Charles D. Walcott, 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



