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The following table shows the number of domestic exchanges 

 receiving the different publications: 



Anthropological 251 



Botanical 330 



Geological 333 



Ornithological . 169 



Zoological 280 



Report 601 



The Library. — The Library now contains 54,270 books and pam- 

 phlets distributed as follows: 



General library . 37,101 



Anthropological library 2,496 



Botanical library 5,290 



Geological library 6,537 



Zoological library 2,141 



Library of Exposition Literature 705 



54,270 



The additions for the year were 2,926 books and pamphlets — 334 

 by purchase and 2,592 by gift and exchange. The purchase of books, 

 having been limited to a portion of such works as were urgently 

 needed, was less than the previous year by 682 books. The acces- 

 sions were largely confined to gifts from friends of the Museum 

 and exchanges from kindred institutions. The most notable gift of 

 the year was received through the generosity of Mr. W. J. Chalmers 

 and Mr. Byron L. Smith, who presented to the Museum the Head 

 collection of fossils that included also a very complete set of mono- 

 graphs on fossil sponges that are almost priceless because of their rarity ; 

 partial sets of geological survey reports and transactions that are val- 

 uable in filling in and completing sets in the library, and a number of 

 duplicates that will be useful as exchange material. Other valuable 

 gifts were received from the following: Mr. Eric Boman, Paris, An- 

 tiquites de la region andine, 2 volumes; Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Cramer, 

 Chicago, Audubon's Birds of America, 7 volumes, 1840-44; Mr. Clar- 

 ence B. Moore, Philadelphia, Antiquities of the St. Francis, White and 

 Black rivers, Arkansas; Mr. Martin A. Ryerson, Chicago, Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington Publications, 7 volumes; Messrs. Marshall 

 H. Saville and George E. Heye, New York City, Contributions to 

 South America Archaeology, 2 volumes; Mr. E. Thurston, Madras, 

 India, Castes and Tribes of Southern India, 7 volumes. Ashmolean 

 Natural History Society of Oxfordshire, Oxford, England; Bataviaasch 

 Genootschap Van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, Batavia, Java; Kir. 



