60 ANNUAL KEPOKT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION^, 1908. 



Switzerland : Service des Ecbanges luternationaux, Bibllothgque Federale Cen- 



trale, Bern. ^ 



Syria : Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, New York. 

 Tasmania : Royal Society of Tasmania, Hobart. 

 Transvaal : Government Library, Pretoria. 

 Trinidad: Victoria Institute, Port of Spain. 

 Tunis, via France. 



Turkey : American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Boston. 

 Uruguay : Oflcina de Deposito, Reparto y Canje Internacional, Montevideo. 

 Venezuela : Biblioteca Nacional, Caracas. 

 Victoria : Public Library of Victoria, Melbourne. 

 Western Australia : Public Library of Western Australia, Perth. 

 Zanzibar. (Sent by mail.) 



RULES GOVERNING TRANSMISSION OF EXCHANGES. 



The rules governing the transmission of exchanges have been slightly modi- 

 fied during the year, and under date of February 1, 1908, a new edition was 

 published, which is here reproduced for the information of those who may wish 

 to make use of the facilities of the service in the forwarding of exchanges : 



In effecting the distribution of its first publications abroad, the Smithsonian 

 Institution established relations with certain foreign scientific societies and 

 libraries, by means of which it was enabled to assist materially institutions and 

 individuals of this country in the transmission of their publications abroad, 

 and also foreign societies and individuals in distributing their publications in 

 the United States. 



In recent years the Smithsonian Institution has been recognized by the 

 United States Government as in charge of its official exchange bureau, through 

 which the publications authorized by Congress are exchanged for those of other 

 governments ; and by a formal treaty it acts as intermediary between the 

 learned bodies and literary and scientific societies of the contracting states for 

 the reception and transmission of their publications. 



Attention is called to the fact that this is not a domestic, but an international 

 exchange service, and is used to facilitate exchanges, not within the United 

 States, but between the United States and other countries only. As exchanges 

 from domestic sources for addresses in Hawaii, the Philippine Islands, Porto 

 Rico, and other territory subject to the jurisdiction of the United States do not 

 come within the designation "international," they are not accepted for 

 transmission. 



Packages prepared in accordance with the rules enumerated below will be 

 received by the Smithsonian Institution from persons or institutions of learning 

 in the United States and forwarded to their destinations through its own agents, 

 or through the various exchange bureaus in other countries. The Smithsonian 

 agents and these bureaus will likewise receive from correspondents in their 

 countries such publications for addresses in the United States and territories 

 subject to its jurisdiction as may be delivered to them under rules similar to 

 those prescribed herein, and will forward them to Washington, after which the 

 Institution will undertake their distribution. 



On the receipt of a consignment from a domestic source it is assigned a 

 " record number," this number being placed on each package contained in the 

 consignment. A record is then made of the entire list of packages under the 

 sender's name, and the separate packages are entered under the name of the 

 person or ofBce addressed. An account is thus established with every corre- 

 spondent of the Institution, which shows readily what packages each one has 

 sent or received through the exchange service. The books are then packed in 

 boxes with contributions from other senders for the same country, and are for- 



