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tained during his lifetime a number of volumes, and after his death 

 his daughter, Miss Lucy Hunter Baird, continued to add to these 

 books. In her will, which was probated after her death last year, 

 she left to the Museum this collection, which numbered 750 volumes. 



DALL LIBRARY. 



A number of books relating to moUusks was presented to the 

 Museum in 1892 by Dr. William Healey Dall, und he has added to 

 this gift from year to year. The number of titles is now about 7,500, 

 and these, with a comparatively small number of books from other 

 sources, make up the sectional library of the division of mollusks. 

 During the past year Dr. Dall has added about 50 titles. The cata- 

 loguing of these books was completed during the past year under 

 Dr. Dall's personal direction. 



TECHNOLOGICAL SERIES. 



Periodicals entered on the records of the technology library have 

 numbered 476 complete volumes, 6,096 parts of volumes, and the new 

 periodical cards made for these have been 331. The cataloguing for 

 the year numbered 256 volumes and 747 pamphlets, requiring 1,187 

 separate cards. The total number of cards typewritten, periodical and 

 catalogue, is 1,518. In addition, about 500 volumes and 8,000 pam- 

 phlets have been placed on the shelves under their respective class 

 numbers and will be incorporated later in the records which are now 

 in preparation. 



Books and pamphlets loaned during the year in addition to those 

 from the general library numbered 188 volumes and 290 single pam- 

 phlets and parts of periodicals, making a total number of 478 pub- 

 .lications. About 360 books have been consulted in the reading room, 

 and about 3,000 books and periodicals have been transferred to the 

 various sections of mineral technology, textiles, and graphic arts, 

 and section cards made for these. 



The science depository set of cards from the Library of Congress 

 was received last year, and about 28,000 have been filed alphabeti- 

 cally. About the same number remain to be filed before the set is in 

 alphabetical order. When completed it will be a useful index to the 

 scientific resources of Washington. The catalogue has been com- 

 pleted for all the books in the reading room and about two-thirds of 

 the east gallery, leaving the north gallery and the remainder of the 

 east gallery still to be done. 



SECTIONAL LIBRARIES. 



The sectional libraries of the Museum have been receiving refer- 

 ence publications for which receipts have been given and filed in 



