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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Havana, Dr. Felipe Poey. 



Santiago, University of Chili. 



Mexico, Mexican Society of Geography and Statistics. 



Montreal, Geological Survey of Canada. 



The packages of the Institution for the West Indies have been kindly 

 forwarded by Mr. Thomas Bland, of New York, and those for Turkey, 

 by Messrs. Chrysoveloni & Co., -of 5 Fenwick street, Liverpool, England; 

 and some other points in the East, by the American Board of Commis- 

 sioners for Foreign Missions, Boston. 



The following table exhibits the number of foreign establishments 

 with which the Institution is at present in correspondence, or, in other 

 words, to which it sends publications and from -which it receives others 

 in return : 

 Foreign institutions in correspondence with the Smithsonian Institution. 



Algeria 6 



Argentine Republic 13 



Australia 30 



Belgium Ill 



Bolivia . . 1 



Brazil 9 



British America 27 



British Guiana 3 



Cape Colony '.. 4 



Central America 2 



Chili 8 



China 1 



Colombia 3 



Denmark 28 



Dutch Guiana 1 



Ecuador 1 



Egypt ' 8 



France 324 



Germany 646 



Great Britain and Ireland 363 



Greece 8 



Holland 65 



Iceland 2 



India. 



29 



Italy 



Japan 



Java 



Liberia 



Mauritius 



Mexico ... 



New Zealand 



Norway 



Peru 



Philippine Islands . 



Polynesia 



Portugal 



Russia 



Spain 



St. Helena 



Sweden 



Switzerland 



Syria 



Turkey 



Venezuela 



West Indies 



General 



181 



4 



5 



1 



3 



15 



15 



25 



3 



2 



23 



162 



18 

 2 



22 



70 

 1 



11 

 2 

 7 

 7 



Total 2,275 



Statistics of exchanges sent during the last eight years. 





1860. 



1870. 



1871. 



1872. 



1873. 



1874. 



1375. 



1876. 





112 



1, 033 

 23, 376 



121 



1,189 



31, 383 



108 



772 



28, 950 



179 

 954 



26, 850 



196 



1, 476 



44, 236 



131 

 933 



27, 990 



208 



1,503 



45, 300 



323 





2,261 



Weight 



80, 750 







To facilitate the business of the exchanges, the following rules have 

 been adopted : 



1. Every package, without exception, must be enveloped in strong 

 paper, and secured so as to bear separate transportation by express or 

 -otherwise. 



2. The address of the Institution or individual, for whom the package 



