Appendix VI. 



EEPOET OF THE LIBKARIAN FOE THE YEAE ENDING JUNE 30, 1896. 



Sir: I have the honor to present herewith a report upon the operations of the 

 library of the Smithsonian Institution during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1896. 



The entry numbers of accessions to the Smithsonian deposit at the Library of 

 Congress extend from 314,500 to 339,339. 



The following table gives an analysis in volumes, parts of volumes, pamphlets, 

 and charts of the accessions during the year : 



Publications received between July 1, 1895, and June 30, 1896. 



Quarto or 

 larger. 



Octavo or 

 smaller. 



Total. 



Volumes 



Parts of volumes 



Pamphlets 



Charts 



330 



17, 504 

 558 



1,350 

 8,923 

 3,692 



1,680 



26, 427 



4,250 



236 



Total . 



32, 583 



In addition to this there have been added to the Secretary's library, office library, 

 and the library of the Astrophysical Observatory 276 volumes and pamphlets, and 

 2,061 parts of volumes, making a total of 2,337, and a grand total of accessions for 

 the year of 34,920 volumes, parts of volumes, pamphlets, and charts. 



These accessions show a gain of 2,967 in volumes and parts of volumes over the 

 previous year; and in the number of entries, 3,366. 



Of these accessions 333 volumes, 759 parts of volumes and periodicals, and 1,047 

 pamphlets were retained for the use of the United States National Museum, and 

 993 medical dissertations were deposited in the library of the Surgeon-General, 

 United States Army, the remaining publications being sent to the Library of 

 Congress on the Monday after their receipt. 



The names on the lists, procured in accordance with the plan of the Secretary for- 

 mulated in 1887, for increasing the library by exchanges, having been exhausted the 

 Secretary directed that this work for the present be continued by entering into cor- 

 respondence with all publishing societies on the new lists of the Bureau of Exchanges, 

 whose publications were not already being received by the Library. In pursuance 

 of this direction 732 letters were written asking for the publications which were not 

 on the list or for numbers to complete the series already in the Library, with the 

 gratifying result that 249 new exchanges were entered into and that 155 defective 

 series were either completed or added to as far as the publishers could supply the 

 missing parts. 



The following universities have sent complete sets of their academic publications, 

 including inaugural dissertations : 



Jena, Michigan, 



Johns Hopkins, Minnesota, 



Kiel, Pennsylvania, 



Konigsberg, Strassburg, 



Leipzig, Tubingen, 



Louvain, Utrecht, 



Lund, Wurzburg, 



Marburg, Zurich. 



Basel, 

 Berlin, 



Dorpat, 

 Erlangen, 



Bern, 

 Bonn, 



Freiberg, 



Giessen, 



Breslau, 



Griefswald, 



Chicago, 

 Columbia, 



Halle, 

 Heidelberg, 



Cornell, 



Helsingfors, 



Eespectfully submitted. 



Mr. S. P. Langley, 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 

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Cyrus Adler, Librarian. 



