12 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pesth : 16 volumes and 63 parts, 

 reports transactions, &c. 



University of Pesth : 44 pamphlets, inaugural dissertations. 



University of Leipsic : 104 pamphlets, inaugural dissertations. 



University of Gottiugen : 70 pamphlets, inaugural dissertations. 



University of Bonn : 44 pamphlets, inaugural dissertations. 



University of Kouigsberg: 144 pamphlets, inaugural dissertations. 



University of Wurzburg: 80 pamphlets, inaugural dissertations. 



Board of Admiralty, London: 7 volumes, 36 charts, and 10 pamphlets. 



British Museum: Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts, part ii; catalogue 

 of prints ; catalogue of satires, vol. i ; hand list of birds, parts ii and iii. 



Boyal Society, Loudon: Philosophical transactions, vol. 160, part i; 

 proceedings, 119-123; catalogue of scientific papers, vol. iv; Green- 

 wich magnetic and meteorological observations, 1868. 



E. L. Simmouds, London : 18 volumes and 52 pamphlets. 



Thomason College, Eourkee : 10 works on Civil Engineering. 



Government Observatory, Sydney, Australia : Observations, 3 volumes 

 and 55 parts. 



Grand Ducal Court Library, Karlsruhe : 5 volumes and 3 parts. 



University of Pisa : 22 volumes and 40 pamphlets. 



The Minister of Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce, Florence : 27 

 volumes and 41 pamphlets. 



Royal Institution for the Encouragement of Natural Sciences, Tech- 

 nology, &c, Naples : Atti, second series, volumes i-viii ; quarto. 



University of Chili, Santiago : 14 volumes and 5 pamphlets. 



The value of the National Library still continues to be increased 

 in the number and character of the books which are annually added to 

 it, first by books purchased, second by the Smithsonian exchanges, 

 and third by the deposit of books in accordance with the copyright 

 law. As we have said in previous reports, the space for the accommo- 

 dation of this valuable library — now the largest in the United States — 

 is far too circumscribed even for the wants of the present time, without 

 regard to those of the future. It is, therefore, proper to keep the propo- 

 sition of a new and separate building constantly in mind. The neces- 

 sity for such a building is not alone confined to the better accommoda- 

 tion of the books, but also includes greater facilities for consulting 

 them by students, as well as by general readers, in the way of greater 

 seclusion in separate spaces, and the number of hours during which the 

 library is open. With a separate building, certain portions of it at 

 least might be accessible during the evening, which, perhaps, would be 

 of greater importance to Washington than a similar arrangement in 

 any other city, on account of the large number of educated men in the 

 various offices of the Government, who cannot avail themselves at other 

 hours of the great advantage which the library affords for the prose- 

 cution of study. 



It may be proper to add, in this connection, that the library now de- 



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