56 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Comparative statement of packages received for transmission through the International 

 Exchange Service, etc. — Continued. 



Country . 



1897. 



Packages. 



For. 



From. 



Packages. 



For. 



From. 



ft orway 



Paraguay 



Persia 



Peru 



Philippine Islands 



Portugal 



Queensland 



Poumania 



Eussia 



Saint Helena 



Samoa 



Santo Domingo 



San Salvador 



Servia 



Siam 



South African Republic . 



South Australia 



Spain 



Straits Settlements 



Sumatra 



Syria 



Sweden 



Switzerland 



Tasmania 



Trinidad 



Tunis 



Turkey 



Turks Island 



United States 



Uruguay 



Venezuela 



Victoria 



West Australia 



Zanzibar 



755 



12 



3 



307 



49 



526 



406 



48 



2,246 



7 



2 

 43 

 16 

 13 

 26 

 358 

 646 

 24 



5 



1,101 



1,570 



219 



39 



2 



293 



1 



23,619 



317 



272 



652 



238 



1 



46 



253 



92 



227 



63 

 1,862 



612 



827 



52, 185 

 184 



861 



21 



2 



380 



44 



749 



544 



53 



2,053 



6 



1 



1 



44 



50 



38 



33 



460 



698 



35 



1 



6 



2,754 



1,720 



354 



42 



18 



349 



4 



21. 057 



419 



348 



751 



307 



1 



50 

 843 



1 

 1,247 



58, 640 



EFFICIENCY OF THE SERVICE. 



So far as the appropriations permitted, the facilities for rapid transportation of 

 exchanges have been improved, hut until more ample funds shall he made available 

 it will be necessary to continue to rely largely upon the liberality of the several 

 trans-oceanic steamship lines which have for so long a time been giving free trans- 

 portation. 



Through the courtesy of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mis- 

 sions and the Board of Foreign Missions ©f the Presbyterian Church in the United 

 States, packages of miscellaneous publications are forwarded to Turkey, but the 

 transmission of United States Government documents has not been revived since its 

 discontinuance in 1896, as explained in my last report. The extensive demand for 

 scientific publications from this country is expected to result in the near future in 

 the establishment of an exchange bureau in Japan. Until that is done, or at least 

 until some responsible institution is prepared to undertake the distribution! of 

 exchanges intended for that country, the forwarding of all miscellaneous exchanges 



