86 EEPORT OF THE SECRETARY, 



Inaugural dissertations and academic publications were received from uni- 

 vei'sities at the following places : 



Ann Arbor. Erlangen. Marburg. 



Baltimore (Johns Hop- Freiburg. Philadelphia (University 



kins). Giessen. of Pennsylvania) . 



Basel. Grefswald. Rostock. 



Berlin. Halle. Strassburg. 



Bern. Heidelberg. Toiilouse. 



Bonn. Kiel. Manchester (England). 



Breslau. Lawrence (Kansas). Zurich. 



In continuing the Secretary's plan to effect new exchanges and to secure 

 missing parts to coniplete sets, 1,405 letters were written, 301 new periodicals 

 were added to the receipts, and 527 defective- series were partly or entirely 

 completed. In addition to the letters above referred to there were 175 postal 

 cards sent asking for current numbers that failed to reach the Institution, 

 which resulted in 103 being received. 



The scientific staff and others have continued to consult the proceedings and 

 transactions of the learned societies in the reference room, and from the read- 

 ing room 21 bound volumes of periodicals were withdrawn and 4,308 scientific 

 periodicals and magazines were borrowed for consultation. 



The sectional libraries maintained in the Institution, the Secretary's library. 

 Office library, and the Employees's library, together with those of the Astro- 

 physical Observatory, Aerodromics, International Exchanges, and Law Refer- 

 ence, have been used by persons from the other scientific bureaus of the Gov- 

 ernment, as well as members of the immediate staff. 



In the Secretary's and Office library 107 books were bound, and special at- 

 tention was given to collating the publications in the Astrophysical Observa- 

 tory, with the result that 118 completed volumes were bound at the Government 

 bindery. At the National Zoological Park 8 volumes have been added to the 

 library by purchase. 



THE employee's LIBRARY. 



The popularity of the Employee's library has continued, and during the j-ear 

 3,2(32 books were borrowed. The new books added to the library by purchase 

 numbered 19. and 78 completed volumes of magazines were bound. The send- 

 ing of about 40 of the books from this library to the National Zoological Park 

 and 2G to the Bureau of American Ethnology each month has been continued 

 with marked appreciation from the two bureaus. 



THE WATKINS LIBRARY. 



Within the last few months the trustees of the estate of the late Dr. J. 

 Elfreth Watkins have turned over to the Smithsonian Institution his large and 

 valuable library consisting in the main of books relating to engineering and 

 transportation. A book plate has been provided and the books listed, and it is 

 hoped that they may soon be available for the use of those interested in the 

 subject to which they relate. 



THE JOHN DONNELL SMITH LIBRARY. 



Through the munificence of Capt. John Donnell Smith, of Baltimore, the 

 library of the Smithsonian Institution has become enriched by his collection 

 of botanical works, numbering about 1,600 volumes, containing books bearing 

 upon the flora of tropical America, carefully selected and substantially and 



