SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES 



84 REPORT OF THE SECRETAR 



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The following universities have sent complete sets of all their acauemrc puoncauons 

 for the year, including the inaugural dissertations delivered by the students on gradu- 

 ation : Bern, Bonn, Dorpat, Erlaugen, Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Giessen, Gottingen, 

 Halle-an-der-Saale, Heidelberg, Helsingfors, Jena, Kiel, Konigsberg, Leipzig, Lou- 

 vain, Lund, Tubingen, Utrecht, and Wurzburg. 



Among other important accessions during the year may be mentioned the following : 



From the office of the secretary of state for India, Loudon, a large series of Indian 

 Government publications, including the final volumes (Vols. 12, 13, and 14) of the 

 great Gazetteer of India, and Part 1 of the Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in the 

 library of the India Office ; full sets of official publications from the Italian Govern- 

 meut, the Canadian Government, and the colonial government of New Zealand; from 

 the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle at Lyons, the two magnificent works, Arch6ologie 

 de la Meu'se, by F. Li6nard, in six large volumes, and Recherches Anthropologiqnes 

 dans le Caucase, by E. Chantre, in five large volumes ; Moeurs et Monuments Pre"hiB- 

 toriques, from the author, the Marquis de Nadaillac ; a. further set of scientific papers 

 from Prince Albert of Monaco; Catalogue des Monnaies Musulmanes de la Biblio- 

 theque Nationale, from the National Library in Paris ; Vol. 3 of the Reports of the 

 German Commission for tbe Observation of the Transit of Veuus ; Vols. 26, 27, 28, 29, 

 30, and 31 of the Challenger Report (Zoology), from the British Government; from 

 the Egypt Exploration Fund, the Memoirs on Tanis, Part II, The Store-City of 

 Pithoni, Naukratis, Part i, and The Shrine of Saft-el-Henneh, as well as a complete 

 set, in duplicate, of all the memoirs published by this association, presented to the 

 Institution as a return for its services in distributing the publications of the asso- 

 ciation in America; the first volume of the Fossils of the British Islands, pre- 

 sented by the delegates of the Clarendon Press, Oxford ; a large volume of Memoirs 

 on Whales and Seals, from the author, Sir William Turner, Edinburgh; a set of 

 nineteen large volumes and pamphlets, catalogues of manuscripts, and special col- 

 lections of books, from the Royal Library at Berlin; the third section of Vol. 2 of 

 the great Corpus Iuscriptiouum Atticarum, from the same library ; a series of fourteen 

 catalogues of the various collections in the Royal Museum at Berlin ; a complete file 

 of the Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie, from 1884 to date, from the Berliner Gesellschaf't 

 fur Anthropologic, Ethnologie, und Urgesohichte; full sets of publications, including 

 charts from the hydrographic offices of Great Britain, Denmark, Italy, and Russia; 

 Vol. 1 of Expeditions Scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman, containing the 

 fishes, by L. Vaillant, from the Bureau Fraucaise desEchanges Internationaux, which 

 also sent a lar^e series of other important publications of the French Government; a 

 large series of government reports from the Hawaiian Government ; Mean Scottish 

 Meteorology, from the author, Prof. C. Piazzi Smyth ; Part 5 of Lilljeborg's Sveriges 

 och Norges Fiskar ; and a gorgeously illustrated work from his highness the Maharaja 

 of Ulwar, entitled Ulwar and its Ait Treasures, by Thomas Holbein Hendley. 



Very respectfully submitted. 



John Murdoch, 



Librarian. 



Prof. S. P. L ANGLE Y, 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 





