REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 15 



Each daj^ typewritten lists of original articles appearing in scien- 

 tific perioclicals received for the Smithsonian deposit in the Library 

 of Congress are prepared and circulated among the heads of scien- 

 tific bureau^ under the Institution. These daily bibliographical lists, 

 begun last November at the request of Secretary Walcott, have been 

 well received from the start. Eequests have come in for copies from 

 other Government bureaus and research organizations, which it has 

 not been possible to comply with, owing to lack of necessary equip- 

 ment for the preparation of additional copies. The library now 

 possesses more than a million volumes, pamphlets, manuscripts, and 

 charts, there being 888,128 publications deposited in the Library of 

 Congress, 156,275 belonging to the National Museum, and 35,000 

 belonging to other branches of the Institution. The number of 

 additions for the fiscal year was 15,796. 



As noteworthy additions to the various branch libraries might 

 be mentioned that of the Gottingische Gelehrte Anzeigen for 1758, 

 1760, 1808. 1813, and 1814 to the Smithsonian deposit, by gift of the 

 Gesellschaft fiir Wissenschaften zu Gottingen; Serindia, by Sir 

 Aurel Stein, to the office library, at present deposited in the Freer 

 Building, the gift of the Secretary of State for India; and the 

 second and third volumes of Beebe's Monograph of the Pheasants, 

 added to the library of the National Zoological Park. 



NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The year has been an unusually busy one for the Museum, but 

 although of late years its activities have greatly increased and its 

 scope widely extended, the appropriation for its maintenance has 

 remained practically the same for the past 11 years. Much credit 

 is due the members of the Museum's staff for the fine results recorded 

 from year to year. Undoubtedly the most important event of the 

 year was the receipt and installation of the Herbert Ward collection 

 of African ethnologica and sculptures. This collection, one of the 

 most important ethnological units in the world, was brought together 

 by Herbert Ward, an Englishman, who was with Stanley on his 

 famous exploring expedition through Africa. It consists of 2,700 

 ethnological specimens and 19 superb sculptures in bronze of African 

 natives by Mr. Ward. 



An actual beginning was made during the year toward establish- 

 ing the Loeb collection of chemical types, noted in last year's report. 

 Two specially constructed cabinets were received from the Chemists' 

 Club of New York, and a portion of each of seven new chemical 

 compounds discovered in the Department of Agriculture were de- 

 posited in the collection. It is planned to solicit all available ne"w 

 chemical material, with the view of eventually making of the Loeb 

 collection a complete series for the use of investigators in chemistry. 



