APPENDIX TO THE REPORT OF THE SECRETARY, 



Smithsonian Institution, 



Washington, December 31, 1863. 

 Sir: I have the honor to present herewith a report, for 1863, of the opera- 

 tions intrusted to my charge, consisting especially of those relating to the 

 printing, the exchanges, and the collections of natural history. 

 Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



SPENCER F. BAIRD, 

 Assistant Secretary Smithsonian Institution. 

 Prof. Joseph Henry, LL.D., 



Secretary Smithsonian Institution. 



PRINTING. 



An accompanying table will show the works printed during the year, and 

 also those now in press. The total number of pages belonging to works finished 

 within the year is : 



Of quarto papers 350 pages, 3 plates. 



Octavo Miscellaneous Collections 1,313 pages. 



Of works still in press there have been printed : 



Of quarto works, about 108 pages. 



Octavo r 443 pages. 



Making a total of 458 quarto pages, and 1,756 octavo, exclusive of the annual 

 report to Congress, nearly finished, and to fill 450 pages. 



EXCHANGES AND TRANSPORTATION. 



The system of exchanges has been in a highly successful condition during 

 1863, both the receipts and transmissions being fully equal to the average of 

 any previous year. The attendant expenses of this branch of operations are, 

 however, great and increasing, and would long since have bec'ome almost pro- 

 hibitory but for the liberality exhibited by various transportation companies in 

 carrying the boxes and parcels of the Institution free of any charges for freight. .It 

 is not too much to say that thousands of dollars are thus presented by the com- 

 panies as a recognition on their part of the great importance, domestic as well 

 as international, of these operations of the Institution. Among the parties de- 

 serving of especial mention in this connexion are the proprietors of the Cunard 

 steamers between New York and Liverpool, and New York and Havana; the 

 North German Lloyd, between New York and Bremen ; the Hamburg American 

 Packet Company, between New York and Hamburg ; the Panama Railroad 

 Company ; the Pacific Mail Steamship Company ; the Hudson's Pay Company; 

 the Adams Express Company, &c. 



