92 ANNUAL REPOET SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1918. 



circulation of 382; 142 completed volumes of periodicals were sent 

 to and returned from the bindery during the year. 



Bf'ltmore Herbarium. — Of the collection of 2,000 volumes of works 

 on botanical subjects, 404 titles and 37 files of periodicals have been 

 checked and made ready for cataloguing and entry. Fifty of these 

 volumes had not been represented before in any Washington library. 

 They were accordingly catalogued in detail and it is expected that 

 cards will be printed for them by the Library of Congress. 



Pharmaceutical series. — The collection received by transfer from 

 the Hygienic Laboratory numbered 932 volumes and 12 pamphlets. 

 For these 194 accession cards and 160 catalogue cards were made. 

 There were catalogued 78 volumes and 5 pamphlets. Two thousand 

 and sixty periodicals were entered and 324 cards written. 



Sectional libraries. — Sectional libraries have been created for the 

 registrar's office and for the war library and the Division of Wood 

 Technology. Following is a complete list of sectional libraries: 



Administration. Mesozoic fossils. 



Administrative assistant's office. Mineral technology. 



Anthropology. Minerals. 



Biology. Mollusks. 



Botany. Oriental archeology. 



Comparative anatomy. Paleobotany. 



Editor's office. Parasites. 



Ethnology. Photography. 



Fishes. Physical anthropology. 



Food. Prehistoric archeology. 



Geology. Property clerk. 



Graphic arts. Registrar's office. 



History. Reptiles and batrachians. 



Insects. Superintendent's office. 



Invertebrate paleontology. Taxidermy. 



Mammals. Textiles. 



Marine invertebrates. Vertebrate paleontology. 



Materia medica. War library. 



Mechanical technology Wood technology. 



BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY LIBRARY. 



This library is administered under the direct care of the chief of 

 the bureau, and a report of its operations will be found in the report 

 of that bureau. 



ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY LIBRARY. 



The collection of reference works relating to astrophysics has been 

 in constant use. Fifty-eight volumes, 6 parts of volumes, and 43 

 pamphlets were added during the year. 



