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Switzerland : Service des Echanges Internationaux, Bibliotheque F6clerale Cen- 



trale, Berne. 

 Syria : American University of Beirut. 

 Tasmania: Secretary to tlie Premier, Hobart. 



Trinidad : Royal Victoria Institute of Trinidad and Tobago, Port-of-Spain. 

 Tunis, via Prance. 



Turkey : Shipments temporarily suspended. 

 Ukrainia : Negotiations to establish an agency now pending. 

 Union of South Africa: Government Printing Works, Pretoria, Transvaal. 

 Uruguay : Oflcina; de Canje Internacional, Montevideo. 

 Venezuela : Biblioteca Nacional, Caracas. 

 Victoria : Public Library of Victoria, Melbourne. 

 Western Australia : Public Library of Western Australia, Perth. 

 Yugoslavia: Academie Royal Serbe des Sciences et des Arts, Belgrade. 



RULES GOVERNING THE TRANSMISSION OF EXCHANGES. 



A revised edition of the circular containing a brief description of 

 the service and the rules under which packages are accepted for dis- 

 tribution, was i^ublished at the close of the year and is here repro- 

 duced for the information of any who may desire to make use 

 of the service in the forwarding of publications. 



In effecting the distribution of its first publications abroad, the Smith- 

 sonian Institution established relations witli many foreign scientific societies 

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

 tions and individuals of this country in the transmission of their publications 

 abroad, and also foreign societies and individuals in distributing their publi- 

 cations in the United States. 



In more recent years the Smithsonian Institution has been charged with the 

 duty of conducting the official exchange bureau of the United States Gov- 

 ernment, through which the publications authorized by Congress are ex- 

 changed for those of other Governments; and by a formal treaty it acts as 

 intermediary between the learned bodies and scientific and literary societies 

 of this and other countries for the reception and transmission of their pub- 

 lications. 



Attention is called to the fact that this is an international and not a 

 domestic exchange service, and that it is designed to facilitate exchanges be- 

 tween the United States and other countries only. As publications 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 by the 

 Institution for transmission through the service. 



Packages prepared in accordance with the rules enumerated below will 

 be received by the Smithsonian Institution from individuals or institutions 

 of learning in the United States and forwarded to their destinations abroad 

 through the various exchange bureaus or agencies in other countries. Many 

 of these bureaus and agencies will likewise receive from correspondents in 

 their countries such publications for addresses in the United States and its 

 dependencies as may be delivered to them under rules similar to those pre- 

 scribed herein, and will forward them to Washington, after which the Insti- 

 tution will transmit them to their destinations by mail free of cost to the 

 recipients. 



