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ANNUAL EEPOET SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1922, 



ther augmented by the forwarding to Austria of a large number of 

 United States patent specifications that were held during the war. 



Of the total number of boxes sent abroad 394 contained full sets of 

 United States oiRcial documents for foreign depositories, and 2,821 

 included departmental and other publications for depositories of 

 partial sets and for miscellaneous correspondents. 



It is gratifying to state that during the year the office has been able 

 to return to its regular schedule of shipments to foreign countries. 

 Consignments are now being forwarded to Great Britain and Ger- 

 many weekly, to France and Italy semimonthly, and to all other 

 countries monthly. 



The number of boxes sent to each country is given in the following 

 table : 



Consignments of exchanges for foreign countries. 



Country. 



Argentina 



Austria 



Belgium 



BoHvia 



Brazil 



British Colonies 



British Guiana 



Bulgaria 



Canada 



Chile 



China 



Chosen 



Colombia ...'...-. 



Costa Rica 



Cuba 



Czechoslovakia 



Danzig 



Denmark 



Ecuador 



Egypt 



Esthonia 



Far Eastern Republic 



Finland 



France 



Grermany 



Great Britain and Ireland 



Greece 



Guatemala 



Haiti 



Honduras 



Hungary 



India 



Number 

 of boxes. 



119 



203 



89 



3 



49 

 15 



1 



9 

 30 

 36 

 164 



1 

 26 

 18 



5 

 128 



5 

 41 

 16 

 11 

 11 



2 



20 



201 



523 



364 



17 



3 







2 

 54 



7 



Country. 



Italy 



Jamaica 



Japan 



Latvia , 



Netherlands , 



New South Wales 



New Zealand , 



Nicaragua , 



Norwaj' 



Paraguay 



Peru 



Poland 



Portugal 



Queensland 



Rumania 



Salvador 



Siam 



South Australia 



Spain 



Sweden 



Switzerland 



Syria 



Tasmania 



Ukrainia 



Union of South Africa 



Uruguay 



Venezuela 



Victoria 



Western Australia . . . . 

 Yugoslavia 



Total 



Number 

 of boxes. 



3 



80 

 12 

 80 

 43 

 28 



2 



47 



4 



22 



49 



22 



17 



32 



4 



2 



25 



91 

 4 



12 

 2 

 30 

 23 

 14 

 50 

 14 

 69 



3,215 



