REPORT OF THE ACTING SECRETARY. 21 



American Historical Association, and the reports and bulletins of 

 the Bureau of xlmerican Ethnology, all of which had previously 

 been printed under the general appropriation for public printing 

 and binding. The allotment made for these objects for the year 

 ending June 30, 1907, aggregates $70,000, itemized as follows: 



For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing and binding the annual 



reports of the Board of Regents, with general appendixes $10,000 



Under the Smithsonian Institution, for the annual reports of the 

 National Museum, with general appendixes, and for the annual re- 

 port of the American Historical Association, and for printing labels 

 and blanks, and for the bulletins and proceedings of the National 

 Museum, the editions of which shall not exceed 4,000 copies, and 

 binding, in half turkey or material not more expensive, scientific 

 books and pamphlets presented to and acquired by the National 



Museum Library 39, 000 



For the annual reports and bulletins of the Bureau of American 



Ethnology 21, 000 



THE LIBEAKY. 



The total accessions during the year to the Smithsonian deposit in 

 the Library of Congress and to the libraries of the Secretary's ofl&ce, 

 the Astrophysical Observatory, the National Museum, and the Na- 

 tional Zoological Park aggregated 33,358. There were also nu- 

 merous additions to the library of the Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology, which is separately administered. 



One of the most important acquisitions was a unique Tibetan 

 manuscript entitled " Transcendental Wisdom," received as a gift 

 from the government of India, which has been deposited in the Na- 

 tional Museum. A notable gift to the Museum library was the work 

 descriptive of the Heber R. Bishop collection of jades and other hard 

 stones. This publication, which was j)resented by the Bishop estate, 

 is in two volumes of extraordinary size, prepared in the highest 

 style of the 'bookmaker's art, the edition being limited to 100 copies. 

 The Gen. John Watts de Peyster library on Napoleon and other sub- 

 jects was increased by 1,234 volumes. 



INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE. 



The International Catalogue of Scientific Literature is a classified 

 authors' and subject catalogue of all original scientific papers pub- 

 lished throughout the world. The organization consists of bureaus, 

 established in each of the civilized countries, whose duty it is to 

 furnish references to the scientific publications issued within their 

 several regions, these references being assembled, edited, and pub- 

 lished in seventeen annual volumes by a central bureau in London. 



The cost of printing and publishing is met by the subscribers to 

 the Catalogue, and American scientific universities, libraries, and 



