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arangenients described in former reports. The following is a general 

 statement of the number of books, maps, and charts received through 

 exchange during 1869 : 

 Yolumes : 



Octavo 946 



Quarto . 245 



Folio 43 



1,234 



Parts of volumes and pamphlets : 



Octavo .' . 3, 238 



Quarto 709 



Polio 142 



4,089 



Maps and charts 232 



Total 5, 555 



Of the larger donations received during the year in question are the 

 following : 



Prom Iceland Foundation Library, Eeikiavik, 44 volumes and 12 

 pamphlets. 



Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, 56 volumes and 5 pam- 

 phlets. 



Prom the Emperor of Austria, 8 volumes and 9 charts. 



Public Library, Stuttgart, 118 volumes. 



University, Greifswalde, 114 pamphlets, Inaugural Dissertations. 



From the Institut de France, 31 volumes. 



Ministere de la Marine et des Colonies, Paris, 6 volumes and 40 pam- 

 phlets. 



Commission Imperiale de PExposition Universelle de 1867, Eapports 

 du Jury International, volumes i-xiii. 



Societe de Statistique, Paris, 13 volumes and 28 pamphlets. 



Academie de Montpellier, Faculte" de Me"decine, 22 volumes, Theses. 



From the Society of Engineers, London, 8 volumes, Transactions. 



British Museum, 9 volumes and 8 pamphlets. 



Eoyal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 20 volumes, 

 Journal. 



From the Bombay Government, 15 volumes, Selections from the 

 Records of the Bombay Government. 



National University, Athens, Greece, 37 volumes and 132 pamphlets. 



Legislative Assembly of Canada, 17 volumes. 



State of Minnesota, 6 volumes, Plate, Documents. 



C. M. LTovey, editor Boston Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, &c, 

 35 volumes. 



The Smithson books have been well cared for by Mr. Spohbrd, the 

 efficient Librarian of Congress. Several thousand have been bound, 



