KEPOKT OF THE SECEETAKY, 117 



The following statistics have been submitted by Mr. N. P. Sciid- 

 der, in charge of the library : 



Books in the Museum Library : 



Volumes 60, 681 



Pamphlets 95, 594 



Total 156, 275 



Increase : 



Volumes 2. 02S 



Pamphlets 4, 185 



Total 6. 208 



Periodicals : 



Parts entered 13, 827 



Section cards 2, 714 



Entry cards for new periodicals 271 



Cataloguing (not including periodicals) : 



Books 860 



Pamphlets 4, 178 



Cards typewritten 6, 183 



Accession cards 5, 214 



Section cards 8, 655 



Books bound 398 



Loans (of which 7,012 went to the sections) 10,886 



Library of Congress books borrowed 1,583 



Library of Congress books returned 1, 886 



Borrowed from other libraries 106 



Returned to other libraries 132 



The general library of the Museum is located in the Natural 

 History Building. In order that reference facilities may be readily 

 available to divisions of the Museum located in other buildings, the 

 technological library is maintained in the Arts and Industries Build- 

 ing, and the office library in the Smithsonian Building is at the dis- 

 posal of Museum divisions located there. 



TECHNOLOGICAL LIBRARY. 



The technological library, located in the old Museum Building, is 

 continuing the reorganization and rearrangement of its material. 

 The number of loans made during the fiscal year ended was 220. 

 Statistics of the scientific depository catalogue are not at present 

 available, owing to repairs and remodeling now in progress in the 

 library's quarters. 



NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART LIBRARY. 



Records of the library of the National Gallery of Art' are at pres- 

 ent kept in the Natural History Library of the Museum, and period- 

 icals entered upon the records and included in periodical statistics 

 of that library. Accessions for the fiscal year, exclusive of period- 

 icals, covered 32 volumes and 36 pamphlets. 



