20 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Parts of volumes : 



Octavo, or less 1, 607 



Quarto, or larger 1, 359 



2,966 



Pamphlets : 



Octavo, or less -. 1, 962 



Quarto, or larger 593 



1,555 



Maps and charts , - 162 



Total receipts 5, 546 



Among the principal donations received in 1874, are the following : 



From the Company of Public Works of the Mediterranean : " Bassins 

 de Badoub de Marseille. Notice sur Fexecution des travaux," with an 

 atlas of 40 plates, (2 copies.) 



From the Argentine Confederation : " Description g£ographique et 

 statistique de la Confederation Argentine, par Y. de Moussy," vols, i-iii, 

 with folio atlas. 



From the National Hungarian Museum, Buda-Pesth : '* Monuments 

 epigraphiques du Musee National Hongrois, dessin6s par Ernest Des- 

 jardins," 1 vol., folio, Buda-Pesth, 1873. 



From the Imperial Archaeological Commission, St. Petersburg: 

 " Compte-rendu de la Commission Imperiale Archeologique," for 1870 and 

 1871, with folio atlas. 



From the Icelandic Literary Society, "Beykjavik Skirnir," 1874: 

 " Skyrsla um Foriigripasafu Islands i Beykjavik," vols, i, ii, 1863-1870. 

 Copenhagen, 1868, 1874. "Fyettir fra Islandi," 1873. Beykjavik, 

 1874, 8vo. 



From the Universities of Berlin, Bonn, Erlangen, Freiberg, Gottin- 

 gen, Greifswald, Halle, Jena, Leipzig, Marburg, Bostock, Wiirzburg, 

 Basel, Bern, and Zurich : Inaugural Dissertations for 1873. 



From the Hydrographic Department of the Ministry of Marine, St. 

 Petersburg ; 23 charts, 10 volumes, and 6 pamphlets. 



From the Veterinary School, Dorpat, 48 pamphlets. 



From the British Museum, London, " Catalogue of Greek Coins, 

 Italy," 1873, 8vo.; " Catalogue of Boman Coins in the British Museum, 

 Boman Medallions," 1874, 4to.; " Catalogue of Prints and Drawiugs," 

 Division I. " Political and Political Satires," vol. ii., 1869-1873, 8vo.; 

 " Fac-similes of Ancient Characters," 1873, folio ; " Catalogue of Birds," 

 vol. i, 1874, 8vo.; " Hand-List of Seals, Morses, Sea-Lions, etc.," 1874, 8vo.; 

 i l Hemiptera, Heteroptera," vol. viii, 1873, 8vo.; and various guide- 

 books. 



From the Board of Admiralty, London, 28 charts published by the 

 Hydrographic Office, from January, 1873, to January, 1874; "The 

 China Sea Directory," vol. iv ; "The Mediterranean Pilot," vol. i; 

 "Bed Sea Pilot," 1873; " Tide-Tables," 1874 ; "Nautical Almanac for 

 1878 f. and 10 lists of lights. 



