EEPORT OF THE SECKETAHY. 



57 



countries diminished to the extent of 0,643, or 12.89 per cent, during the same 

 period. The increase in receipts is particularly gratifying, and is due prin- 

 cipally to earnest demands, both by personal solicitation and by letter, for more 

 adequate reciprocal returns ; while the diminution in the contributions of United 

 States official publications is attributable largely to the elimination of many 

 correspondents who have not sent an equivalent in their own publications. 



statement of United States Government exchanges during the year 190Jt-5. 



Name of Bureau. 



Aniei'ican Historical Asso- 

 ciation 



Astropliysieal Observatory. 



Auditor for the State and 

 other Departments 



Board on G-eographic Names 



Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology 



Bureau of American Re- 

 publics 



Bureau of Animal Industry. 



Bureau of the Census 



Bvireau of Education 



Bureau of Fisheries 



Bureaii of Foreign Com- 



• merce __ 



Bureau of Insular Affairs. . . 



Bureau of Labor 



Bureau of the Mint 



Bureau of Navigation, Navy 

 Department 



Bureau of Navigation, De- 

 partment of Commerce 

 and Labor 



Bureau of Public Health 

 a ad Marine-Hospital Serv- 

 ice 



Bureau of Statistics, De- 

 partment of Commerce 

 and Labor 



Bureau of Steam Engineer- 

 ing, Navy Department 



Chief of Staff, U. S. Army.. 



Civil Service Commission... 



Coast and Geodetic Survey. 



Commissioner of Internal 

 Revenue 



Commissioners of the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia 



Comptroller of the Cur- 

 rency 



Department of Agriculture. 



Department of Commerce 

 and Labor 



Department of the Interior. 



Department of Justice 



Received Sent 

 for — by— 



1 



246 



17 



45 

 118 

 100 



303 



2 

 513 



678 



1,965 

 2 



558 



11 

 53 



196 



15, 495 



1 



149 



12 



314 



8 



50 



180 

 192 



1 



266 



44 



Name of Bureau. 



Packages. 



Received 

 for — 



Sent 

 by- 



Department of State 



Engineer School of Appli- 

 cation 



Entomological Commission. 

 General Land Office . . 



14 



4 

 3 



6 



743 



10 

 94 



24 



2 





GeologieaA Survey 



2,414 



Health Department of the 



District of Cokimbia 



Hydrographic Office 



Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission 



141 

 92 



Isthmian Canal Commission 



Library of Congress 



Life-yaving Service . 



1 



12,498 



20,765 

 69 



Light-House Board 



3 



181 



Military Secretary's Office 



268 



National Academy of Sci- 

 ences - 



National Botanic Garden-... 

 ; National Bureau of Stand- 

 i ards 



103 

 1 



10 



316 



3 



30 

 1.54 



14 



31 



46 







3,622 



National Zoological Park . . . 



Nautical Almanac Office 



Naval Observatory 



Navy Department 



Office of the Chief of Engi- 

 neers 





71 

 609 



83 



Office of the Chief of Staff, 

 i U.S. Army 



8 



1 Office of Indian Affairs 



1 Ordnance Office, War'De- 



3 



2 



266 



1 

 3 



3,720 



1 

 151 



9 

 31 

 137 







Patent Office. 



1,818 



President of the United 

 States 









i Smithsonian Institution 



Superintendent of Docu- 

 ments 



Surgeon-General's Office 



Treasury Department 



"Wa.T Departmerit 



12,217 



41 



326 



9 



6 



1 Weather Bureau 



911 



Tota,l 



20,400 



65,220 







