REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



57 



statement cf packages received for transmission through the International 

 Exchanges during the year ending June 30, 1908 — Continued. 



Country, 



Packages. 



Country. 



Packages. 



For. 



From 



For. 



From. 



Persia 



46 



1,432 



168 



9 



1,512 



2 



1,374 



24 



35 



386 



4,811 



1 



15 



25 



4 



13 



15 



15 



2 



168 



15 



' 19 



3 



89 





Riam . , 



208 



23 



15 



1,469 



2,233 



189 



27 



2 



7,852 



3,908 



1,159 



1,240 



102 



33 



1,378 



16 



44,524 



1,373 



1,131 



2,827 



1,270 



14 





Peru 









Philippine Islands 



3 



19 

 676 



Society Islands 





Porto Rico 





80 



Portugal 



Spain , . 



185 



Portuguese West Africa 



Straits Settlements 



1 



Queensland 



182 





2 



Reunion 







Rhodesia 





Sweden . . 



221 



Roumania 



74 

 2,260 





1 667 



Russia 





2 



St. Croix 





6 



St. Helena 





Trinidad 





St. Kitts 





Tunis. .. 



2 



St. Lucia 





Turkey . 





St. Martin 





Turks Islands 





St. Pierre and Miquelon 







160, 850 



St. Thomas 









St. Vincent 





Venezuela 





Salvador 







510 



Samoa 







449 



Santo Domingo 



6 



Zanzibar 







Total 







203, 098 







1 



203, 098 



Servia . 









During the year there were sent abroad 1,909 boxes, of which 175 con- 

 tained complete sets of United States Government documents for authorized 

 depositories, and 1,734 were filled with departmental and other publications 

 for depositories of partial sets and for distrbution to miscellaneous corre- 

 spondents. 



EXCHANGE OF GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS. 



The number of packages sent abroad through the international exchange 

 service by United States Government institutions during the year was 102,694, 

 an increase over those forwarded during the preceding twelve months of 2,580 ; 

 the number received in exchange was 16,853, an increase of 5,212. It is gratify- 

 ing to note that the increase in the number of packages received is greater than 

 the increase in the number sent out. This is due in large measure to the 

 special efforts made by the institution during the past year to obtain for the 

 Library of Congress and the several government departments and bureaus more 

 adequate returns for the publications sent to their foreign correspondents, to 

 which reference has previously been made. From the returns that have thus 

 far been received in response to the requests of the institution, I feel confident 

 that the exchanges from abroad will, during the coming year, be even greater 

 than during the past twelve months. 



FOREIGN DEPOSITORIES OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS. 



In accordance with treaty stipulations and under the authority of the con- 

 gressional resolutions of jMarch 2, 1867, and March 2, 1901, setting apart a 

 certain number of documents for exchange with foreign countries, there are now 



