10 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



The manuscript of both volumes of the report for 1894 has been sent 

 to the printer, and some progress made toward their publication. 



The secretary's report for the year ending June 30, 1894, was sub- 

 mitted in printed form to the Board of Eegents at their January meeting. 



Proceedings and bulletin of the National Museum. — The publications 

 of the Museum are discussed on another page, and therefore need no 

 reference here other than to mention that there were issued fifty-six 

 separate papers of the proceedings, chiefly on natural-history subjects, 

 and one number of the bulletin series, of interest chiefly to entomolo- 

 gists. 



Bureau of Ethnology publications. — The eleventh and twelfth annual 

 reports of the Bureau of Ethnology were published during the year, 

 and the thirteenth report was put in type, while the manuscript of the 

 fourteenth and fifteenth reports have been sent to the printer, thus 

 bringing the work practically to date. The contents of the published 

 volumes, as also mention of several papers of the bulletin series, are 

 discussed on subsequent pages. 



LIBRARY. 



The growth of the library steadily continues, 31,953 titles having been 

 added during the past year. Among the more notable accessions, I 

 may mention a collection of albums of photographs presented by the 

 Sultan of Turkey, which portray the natural scenery, the art, education, 

 industries, and government of the Ottoman Empire. 



It has been possible to improve the light in the reading room of the 

 library offices and to assign another small room to the library, and a 

 small collection of wholesome popular literature has been commenced 

 for the use of the employees of the Institution. 



The results of the plan to increase the library by exchange, detailed 

 in my report for 1887-88, have been carefully tabulated with a view to 

 the completion of incomplete sets of periodicals and the publications of 

 learned societies, and to further additions to the already large list. 



This plan has thus far, after seven years' labor, secured for the Insti- 

 tution 2,035 new periodicals and the entire or partial completion of 

 1,133 defective series. 



The tabulation shows that the Institution now possesses 869 complete 

 sets of foreign publications and 395 of American publications, while 

 888 sets of foreign publications and 569 sets of American publications 

 are as complete as the publishers are able to make them. 



The collection of scientific and other periodicals possessed by the 

 Institution is now probably the largest in the English-speaking world — ; 

 numbering, approximately, 4,000. Many of these are no longer pub- 

 lished, and in some cases the exchange is discontinued. At present 

 there are currently received 3,045; of these, 1,372 are in the English 

 language, 621 in German, and 423 in French, the remainder represent- 

 ing almost all the languages of civilized nations, and including publi- 



