REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



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China 2 



Chile 11 



Colombia 3 



Costa Rica 5 



Cuba 5 



Denmark 16 



East India 14 



Egypt 4 



France and Colonies 129 



Germany 182 



Great Britain and Ireland 276 



Guatemala 2 



Honduras 1 



Hungary 11 



Italy 64 



Japan 18 



Liberia 2 



Mexico a 



Natal 2 



New South Wales 13 



Netherlands 24 



New Zealand 8 



Nicaragua 4 



Norway 15 



Peru 4 



Polynesia 3 



Portugal 7 



Queensland r 14 



Roumania b 



Russia 42 



San Salvador 2 



Servia b 



South Australia 6 



Spain 11 



Sweden 28 



Switzerland '.... 33 



Tasmania 1 



Turkey 1 



Uruguay 4 



Venezuela 4 



Victoria 10 



Western Australia 3 



a Packages sent by mail. 



b Included in transmissions to Germany. 



Shipments of United States congressional publications were made on October 1, 

 1897, January 19, 1898, and April 19, 1898, to the governments of the following- 

 named countries : 



Argentina. 



Denmark. 



Netherlands. 



South Australia. 



Austria. 



France. 



New South Wales. 



Spaiu. 



Baden. 



Germany. 



New Zealand. 



Sweden. 



Bavaria. 



England. 



Norway. 



Switzerland. 



Belgium. 



Haiti. 



Peru. 



Tasmania. 



Buenos Ayres. 



Hungary. 



Portugal. 



Uruguay. 



Brazil. 



India. 



Prussia. 



Venezuela. 



Canada (Ottawa). 



Italy. 



Queensland. 



Victoria. 



Canada (Toronto). 



Japan. 



Russia. 



Western Australia 



Chile. 



Mexico. 



Saxony. 



Wurttemberg. 



Colombia. 









A special shipment was made to Western Australia on June 23, 1898. 

 Shipments to Greece and Turkey have been temporarily suspended, and the ship- 

 ment of April 19 was necessarily withheld from Spain. 



Recapitulation. 



Cases. 



Total Government shipments 190 



Total miscellaneous shipments 1 ; 140 



Total shipments 1, 330 



Total shipments last year 1 300 



Increase over last year. 

 Respectfully submitted. 



Mr. S. P. Langley, 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



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Richard Rathbun, 



Assistant Secretary. 



