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allowed for the year now closed. This additional amount will per- 

 mit further improvements in the service and renewed exertions to 

 procure larger returns of government publications from abroad for 

 the Library of Congress and the several Departments and Bureaus 

 of the Government. 



The Smithsonian Institution, through its system of exchanges, is 

 in correspondence with 58,107 establishments and individuals, 46,514 

 of which are exterior to the borders of the United States. As will be 

 seen from a perusal of the table in the full report on the exchanges 

 in the appendix, these correspondents are scattered throughout the 

 world, and it may be said that there is no place, however remote, 

 which does not profit by the service. 



Under the Congressional resolutions of March 2, 1867, and March 

 2, 1901, setting apart a certain number of documents for exchange 

 with foreign governments, there are now sent regularly to deposi- 

 tories abroad 53 full sets of United States official publications and 30 

 partial sets, the governments of Ecuador, Panama, and Alberta, 

 Canada, having been added to the depositories of partial sets during 

 the past year. 



In order to prevent loss of publications intended for Government 

 establishments, special attention has been given to foreign consign- 

 ments of books arriving at the various United States custom-houses 

 incorrectly or insufficiently addressed. During the past year these 

 efforts have resulted in the clearing of a number of consignments 

 which might otherwise have gone astray. 



The work of increasing the office collection of directories and other 

 books of addresses has continued during the year, and has resulted in 

 the accumulation of a very creditable assemblage of such publications. 



I am gratified to state that through the efforts of Dr. Eypaldo 

 Bassier, a member of the Greek Parliament, an arrangement has been 

 effected whereby all exchanges for Greece may now be forwarded to 

 the National Library at Athens for distribution, instead of limiting 

 the consignments, as formerly, to publications intended for Govern- 

 ment institutions or individuals connected with them. This arrange- 

 ment will enable the Institution to make more frequent transmissions. 



Recently a communication was received from Dr. F. Bonola Bey, 

 secretary-general of the Khedivial Geographical Society in Cairo, 

 stating that on account of absence from Egypt it would be necessary 

 for him to discontinue the distribution of exchanges for the Institu- 

 tion; adding, however, that the director-general of the survey de- 

 partment at Cairo would take charge of the work. A letter from the 

 director-general has since been received placing the services of the 

 department at the disposal of the Institution. Consignments will 

 therefore be sent to the survey department in the future. 



Transmissions to Bulgaria, which were temporarily suspended on 

 account of the death of Dr. Paul Leverkuhn. who attended to the 



