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artistically bound. This donation was made in connection with the gift to the 

 Institution of his herbarium, and brings to the National Museum, where the 

 library will be deposited, an unrivaled basis of equipment for the prosecution of 

 a complete botanical exploration of Central America and a critical study of its 

 whole flora. 



WATTS DE PEYSTER COLLECTION NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE. 



It is very gratifying to report the rapid increase of the Watts de Peyster 

 Collection Napoleon Buonaparte through the continued gifts of Gen. John Watts 

 de Peyster. The additions during the year numbered 1,775 volumes and 1,007 

 maps. 



INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE. 



The Institution has continued to act as the representative in the United 

 States for the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, and has indexed 

 and classified for the Central Bureau at London the scientific literature of the 

 United States. During the past year the number of references sent to the 

 Central Bureau at London was 24,182, an increase of nearly three thousand 

 over the previous year, as follows : 



Literature of 1901 1,619 



Literature of 1902 2,780 



Literature of 1903 11,143 



Literature of 1904 , 8,640 



Total 24,182 



All of the first annual issue of the International Catalogue has been published, 

 together with all of the second annual issue, excepting the volume of Zoology 

 and five volumes of the third annual issue, namelj% Mathematics, Mechanics, 

 Physics, Astronomy, and Bacteriology. 



MUSEUM LIBRARY. 



In the Museum library there are now 24,170 bound volumes and 38,643 un- 

 bound papers. The additions during the year consisted of 3,573 books, 3,048 

 pamphlets, and 563 parts of volumes. There were catalogued 1,952 books, of 

 which 101 belonged to the Smithsonian deposit, and 3,755 pamphlets, of which 

 185 belonged to the Smithsonian deposit, and 12,216 parts of periodicals, of 

 which 1,309 belonged to the Smithsonian deposit. In the accession book 3,573 

 volumes, 3,048 pamphlets, and 563 parts of volumes were recorded. The num- 

 ber of cards added to the author's catalogue was 5,942, which does not include 

 S47 cards for books and pamphlets recatalogued. 



In connection with the entering of periodicals 55 memoranda were made 

 reporting volumes and parts missing in the sets, together with a few titles of 

 publications that were not represented in the library. The result of this 

 work was the completing or partly filling up of 23 sets of periodicals. 



Throughout the whole year attention has been given to the preparation of 

 volumes for binding, with the result that 1,371 books were bound, and at the 

 close of the year there were several hundred more ready for the binder. 



Tlie number of booivs, pamphlets, and periodicals borrowed from the general 

 library amounted to 40.400, including 9,192 which were assigned to the sec- 

 tional libraries. 



