The following are the principal foreign agencies of reception and dis¬ 
tribution of the Smithsonian exchanges: 
London, William Wesley, 28 Essex street, Strand. 
Paris, G. Bossange, 1G Rne du 4 Septembre. 
Leipsic, Dr. Felix Fliigel, 49 Sidonien Strasse. 
St. Petersburg, L. Watkins & Co., 10 Admiralty Place. 
Amsterdam, Frederick Miiller, Heerengraeht KK. No. 139. 
Milan, U. Hoepli, 591 Galeria Cristoforia. 
Harlem, Professor von Baumliauer. 
Christiania, R}yal (Jniversity of Norway. 
Stockholm, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 
1 Copenhagen, Royal Danish Society. 
Lisbon, Polytechnic School. 
Madrid, Royal Academy of Sciences. 
Havana, Dr. Felipe Poey. 
Santiago, University of Chili. 
Mexico, Mexican Society of Geography and Statistics. 
Montreal, Geological Survey of Canada. 
The packages of the Institution for the West Indies have been kindly 
forwarded by Mr. Thomas Bland, of New York, and those for Turkey, 
by Messrs. Chrysoveloni & Co., of 5 Fenwick street, Liverpool, England; 
and those for other points in the East, by the American Board of Com¬ 
missioners for Foreign Missions, Boston. 
The following table exhibits the number of foreign establishments 
with which the Institution is at present in correspondence, or, in other 
words, to which it sends publications and from which it receives others 
in return. 
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1. Transmissions through the Smithsonian Institution for foreign 
countries to be confined exclusively to books, pamphlets, charts, and 
other printed matter, sent as donations or exchanges, and not to 
include those procured by purchase. The Institution and its agents 
will uot receive for any address apparatus and instruments, philo¬ 
sophical, medical, etc., (including microscopes,) whether purchased 
or presented; nor specimens of natural history, except where special 
permission from the Institution has been obtained. 
2. The Departments or Bureaus of the United States Government 
to pay to the Smithsonian Institution five cents per pound on their 
packages, which includes all expense of boxing, shipping, and 
transportation. 
3. A list of the addresses and a statement of contents of each 
