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Zoological Park. There were also numerous additions to the library 

 of the Bureau of American Ethnology, which is separately adminis- 

 tered. It is estimated that the equivalent of 11,000 volumes were 

 transmitted to the Library of Congress besides public documents and 

 other gifts to that Library transmitted through the International 

 Exchange service, and such public documents as were presented to 

 the Institution and sent direct to the Library. Two hundred and fifty 

 neAv periodicals were added to the receipts and some 600 defective 

 series were partially or entirely filled up. The work of the Inter- 

 national Catalogue has brought a considerable number of authors' 

 separates to the Library. Efforts have been made to increase the 

 series of address books in the office of the International Exchanges 

 service. The estate of S. P. Langley turned over to the Institution 

 his scientific library, which has been divided up among the various 

 divisions. The Gen. Watts de Peyster library of Napoleon and other 

 subjects was increased about 288 volumes. It is with regret that 

 I record the death of General de Peyster, who was a well-known 

 collector and had been for many years a generous donor to the 

 Institution. 



The quarters of the library both in the Institution and Museum 

 are entirely inadequate, and no relief seems possible until the com- 

 pletion of the new building for the National Museum, when it is 

 hoped that a large part of the main floor of the Smithsonian build- 

 ing can be devoted to library purposes, forming a central library for 

 the Institution and all its branches, though of course the sectional 

 library system will be continued as heretofore. 



PRESERVATION OF ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES. 



The Institution has for many years taken a deep interest in pre- 

 serving archeological objects on the public domain from vandals and 

 relic hunters and making them accessible under proper regulations 

 to scientific institutions and colleges. A law covering this subject 

 was approved on June 8, 1906. Under the terms of this act uniform 

 regulations for its administration were to be prepared by the Secre- 

 taries of the Interior, War. and Agriculture. At the request of the 

 Departments, the Institution participated in several conferences of 

 representatives of the three Departments looking to the preparation 

 of such rules, which were promulgated on December 28, 1006. A 

 little later some dissatisfaction was expressed with these regulations 

 by archeologists, and at their request I invited the three Departments 

 to reconsider the regulations. Accordingly, further conferences were 

 held by representatives of the Departments, of the Institution, and of 

 the Archeoloeical Institute of America, resulting in the understand- 



