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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 14 



Australia and Tasmania 32 



Austro-Hungary 156 



Belgium 112 



Bolivia 1 



Brazil 10 



British America 20 



British Guiana 3 



Cape Colony and St. Helena 7 



Central America 2 



Chili 8 



China 1 



Colombia 3 



Denmark... 28 



Dutch Guiana 1 



Ecuador 1 



Egypt 8 



France 327 



Germany 507 



Great Britain and Ireland 3G9 



Greece 8 



Holland 66 



Iceland 



India 



Italy 



Japan 



Java 



Liberia 



Mauritius 



Mexico 



New Zealand 



Norway 



Peru 



Philippine Island 



Portugal 



Russia 



Sandwich Islands. 



Spain 



Sweden 



Switzerland 



Turkey 



Venezuela . 



West Indies 



4 



30 



187 



6 



5 



1 



3 



16 



15 



25 



4 



3 



32 



162 



2 



24 



22 



73 



12 



2 



International societies 



Total 2,333 



Special reference has been made in previous reports to the arrange- 

 ment by which Congress places fifty copies of all the publications of 

 the United States Government at the disposal of the Library Committee 

 of Congress. These copies are to be exchanged, under its direction, 

 through the Smithsonian Institution, for correspondingly complete series 

 of the publications of such other governments as agree to the proposi- 

 tion. At present, the number of sets amounts to thirty- two, and iu eludes 

 the following governments. Of these, several came for the first time into 

 arrangement during the year 1878, and seventy-three boxes of the 

 publications referred to, each box measuring seven cubic feet, have betn 

 distributed : 



International exchange of government publications in 1878. 



Boxes 



Argentine Republic 2 



Bavaria 11 



Belgium 2 



Brazil , 2 



Buenos Ayres 2 



Canada (Ottawa) 2 



Canada (Toronto).- 2 



Chili 2 



England 2 



Boxes. 



France 2 



Germany 2 



Greece 2 



Hayti 2 



Holland 2 



Japan 2 



Mexico 2 



New South Wales 2 



New Zealand 2 



