REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 35 



From the Koyal Library, Stockholm: Government Documents, 1ST 7, 

 1878, Stockholm, 17 vols, and 8 parts, 4to. 



From the Government of South Australia, Adelaide: Acts and Ordi- 

 nances of the Province of South Australia, 1837-1835, Adelaide 4to 

 (6 vols.). Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia, 1857-'8 i 

 ii ; 1858, i, ii ; 1859, i, ii j 1800, i-iii ; 1801, i-iii ; 1802, i-iii ; 1803, i ; 1804, 

 i-iii; 1805, i, ii; 18G5-'G, i, ii; 18GG-'7, i-iii; 1807, i-iii; 1868-'9, i-iii; 

 1809-'70, i-iii; 1870-'71, i-iii; 1871, i, ii; 1872, i-iii; 1873, i-iii; 1874, 

 i-iii ; 1875, i-iii ; and special session, Adelaide, folio (53 vols.). Statis- 

 tical Sketch of South Australia, by Josiah Boothby, London, 1870 8vo. 



From the Norwegian Government, Christiania : Gorges Officielle Sta- 

 tistik, 13 volumes and 43 parts, Christiania, 1870-1870. Forklarino-er 

 til K. Gorges Statsregnskab, 1875, Christiania, 1870, 4to. 



From the second geological survey of Pennsylvania: Eeports 1875- 

 1878 (20 volumes). 



From the Universities of Wiirzburg, Marburg, Berlin, Lou vain, Bonn 

 Halle, Gottingen, Jena, Erlangen, Leipzig, Zurich, Greifswald, Heidel- 

 berg, Dorpat, and Freiburg : Inaugural dissertations for 1877. 



From Dr. A. Ernst, Caracas: Statistical documents, 24 volumes 

 Caracas, 1875-1877, 4to. 



From the Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Ontario : 13 volumes gov- 

 ernment documents. 



From the State Library of Ohio : 14 volumes State documents. 



An addition of special interest will be found in the palfeontological 

 library of the late Prof. F. B. Meek, whose death at the Institution, 

 after many years' sojourn within its walls, was recorded in the report for 

 1877 (p. 10). Mr. Meek died without any known heirs, and his books 

 being appraised in due legal manner, the Institution purchased them. 

 This was the more desirable as, in regard to many of the works there was 

 some uncertainty whether they had been presented to Professor Meek 

 in his individual capacity or as the officer in charge of the palseontolog- 

 ical department of the Institution. This question is, of course, now r set- 

 tled. The books of this library (especially the volumes enriched by 

 copious manuscript notes and interpolations) have been repeatedly con- 

 sulted by paheontologists and conchologists. 



NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The relations existing between the Smithsonian Institution and the 

 National Museum have been so frequently referred to by my predecessor 

 that it is only necessary to mention briefly that the Museum constitutes 

 no organic part of the Institution, and that, whenever Congress so 

 directs, it may be transferred to any designated supervision without 

 affecting the general plans and operations connected with the "increase 

 and diffusion of knowledge among men." For the most part, the articles 

 consist of the collections made by the United States surveying and 

 exploring expeditions, and the expense of their care is entirely covered 



