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REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



line have also authorized their agents to forward packages to or from 

 the Institution free of charge. 



The Institution is under many obligations to Mr. A. B. Forbes and 

 Mr. Samuel Hubbard, of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, in San 

 Francisco, for important services in facilitating and conducting its 

 general business of exchanges, shipments, &c, on the Pacific coast. 



The domestic agents of exchange, consisting of Messrs. Swan, 

 Brewer & Tileston, Boston; D. Appleton & Co., New York; J. B. 

 Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, and Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati, 

 have, as heretofore, received and distributed without charge the 

 copies of Smithsonian contributions to knowledge addressed to insti- 

 tutions within their reach. 



A. 



■ 



Receipt of books, dec, by exchange in 1861. 

 Volumes : 



Octavo 572 



Quarto 196 



Folio 53 



821 

 Parts of volumes and pamphlets : 



Octavo 1,255 



Quarto ■ 583 



Folio 107 



1,945 



Maps and charts * 120 



Total 2, 886 



B. 



Table showing the statistics of the foreign exchanges of the Smithsonian 



Institution in 1861. 



Agent and country. 



Number of ad- 

 dresses. 



Ik 



o 



p* 



^=1 CO 

 O cp 



<s a 



a 



CO 



03 



•A 

 O 



-a 



O 



CD 



a 



a 



CO . 



O ,33 



O 



«Ih -cs 



o .a 



CO 



X 

 O 



"03 '" 



1. 



Dr. Felix Flugel, Leip&ic. 

 Sweden 



13 

 6 

 10 

 29 

 25 

 232 

 21 

 11 



26 



11 



16 

 46 

 45 

 342 

 34 

 21 











Norway - 





















Russia 











Holland _ _ 











Germany . 











Switzerland . . . . 











Belgium. .... .... .._■ . 





















347 



541 



30 



278 



7,840 



