The appropriation by Congress for the support of the service was $32,200 (the same amount as was granted for the fiscal years 1908 and 1909), and the sum collected on account of repayments was $4,446.74, making the total available resources for carrying on the system of international exchanges $36,646.74. The exchange office continues to render assistance to the Library of Congress in obtaining foreign government documents needed to complete its sets. It is gratifying to state that the exchange relations with Korea, which were interrupted during the late Russo-Japanese war, have been renewed, His Imperial Japanese Majesty's residency-general at Seoul having consented to act as the exchange intermediary between the two countries. The number of publications exchanged between Korea and the United States was never very large, and it is hoped that the establishment of an official medium through which consignments may be forwarded will result in a fuller interchange.

While the K. K. Statistische Central-Commission in Vienna has been acting as the exchange intermediary between Austria and the United States since 1898, it has been necessary for the Smithsonian Institution, under the arrangements entered into through the Imperial Academy of Sciences with the commission, to bear all the expenses for freight on consignments both to and from Vienna. The Government of Austria has now signified its willingness to assume its share of the cost of conducting the exchanges between the two countries, and in the future the Institution will therefore be relieved of this extra burden upon its resources. The exchange work on the part of Austria will continue to be carried on by the Statistical Commission. The thanks of the Institution are due to the president of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and to the president of the Statistical Commission for assistance in this matter.

I am very glad to be able to report that it now seems assured that the Institution will shortly be relieved of the expense of conducting the paid agency which it has maintained for many years in Leipsic to attend to the transmission and distribution of exchanges between Germany and the United States.

It is expected that in a few months there will be established in Berlin, under the auspices of the German Government, an institution to further the cultural relations between the two countries. This establishment will be known as the America Institute, and it will assume as one of its functions the transmission and distribution of German exchanges.

While the America Institute has not yet begun active operations, it is expected that it will be organized at an early day, and that it will be prepared to take over the work of the exchange agency by the end of the calendar year.

Dr. Hugo Munsterberg will be the first director of the America Institute. It has been the practice of the Institution to forward by registered mail packages received from abroad for distribution in the United States. With a view to reducing the work in the Exchange Office and also to relieving the Post-Office Department of the extra expense entailed in handling this registered matter-numbering annually about 21,000 packages, aggregating a total weight of over 120,000 pounds-the custom of registering exchanges was discontinued on October 17, 1909, consignments now being forwarded by ordinary mail. It should be added in this connection, that the Institution is informed by the Post-Office Department that in the ordinary mail there is an average loss of only 1 package in 15,000.

Exchange consignments form part of the cargo of almost every fast steamship which leaves New York for a foreign port. It is therefore not surprising that occasionally a case is lost through the wrecking of a steamer. During the year a case containing exchanges for miscellaneous addresses in the Transvaal was destroyed while en route to Pretoria, the steamship Norse Prince, by which

it was transmitted, having been burned while off the coast of South Africa. The loss at sea during the latter part of 1908 of a case of exchanges for distribution in Egypt should also be noted here. This consignment was forwarded in care of the Egyptian Survey Department under date of October 22, 1908, but definite information concerning its loss has only recently been received. The senders of the packages contained in the consignments referred to were communicated with, and it is gratifying to state that, except in one or two instances, it was possible for them to supply copies of the lost publications. It may be of interest to add here that, so far as reported to the Institution, these are the only instances during the past five years in which the entire contents of exchange consignments have been lost.

INTERCHANGE OF PUBLICATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER COUNTRIES.

The statement which follows shows in detail the number of packages received for transmission through the International Exchange Service during the year ending June 30, 1910:

During the year there were sent abroad 2,033 boxes (an increase over 1909 of 70 boxes), of which 220 contained complete sets of United States Government documents for authorized depositories and 1,813 were filled with departmental and other publications for depositories of partial sets and for distribution to miscellaneous correspondents.

EXCHANGE OF GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS.

The number of packages sent abroad through the International Exchange Service by United States Government establishments during the year was 138,152, an increase over the number forwarded during the preceding twelve months of 15,812; while 18,017 packages were received in exchange, a decrease of 2,199. This disparity between the number of packages received and those sent may be accounted for largely by the fact that many returns for the publications sent abroad are not made through the Exchange Service, but are for

warded to their destinations direct by mail. This difference is further due to the practice of sending consignments to the Library of Congress intact, in many cases a whole box of publications being entered on the records of this office as one package.

FOREIGN DEPOSITORIES OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS.

In accordance with treaty stipulations and under the authority of the congressional resolutions of March 2, 1867, and March 2, 1901, setting apart a certain number of documents for exchange with foreign countries, there are now sent regularly to depositories abroad 55 full sets of United States official publications and 33 partial sets.

While the Statutes at Large have for some years formed part of the sets of government documents provided for international exchange purposes, the Session Laws have only been added during the past year. This addition was made through the efforts of the Library of Congress, a request for the laws having been received from one of the depositories.

The recipients of full and partial sets are as follows:

DEPOSITORIES OF FULL SETS.

Argentina: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Buenos Aires.
Argentina: Biblioteca de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
Australia: Library of the Commonwealth Parliament, Melbourne.
Austria: K. K. Statistische Central-Commission, Vienna.

Baden: Universitäts-Bibliothek, Freiburg.

Bavaria: Königliche Hof- und Staats-Bibliothek, Munich.

Belgium: Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels.

Brazil: Bibliotheca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro.

Canada: Parliamentary Library, Ottawa.

Cape Colony Government Stationery Department, Cape Town.

Chile: Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional, Santiago.

China: American-Chinese Publication Exchange Department, Shanghai Bureau

of Foreign Affairs, Shanghai.

Colombia: Biblioteca Nacional, Bogota.

Costa Rica: Oficina de Depósito y Canje de Publicaciones, San José.

Cuba: Department of State, Habana.

Denmark: Kongelige Bibliotheket, Copenhagen.

England: British Museum, London.

England: London School of Economics and Political Science, London.

France: Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.

France: Préfecture de la Seine, Paris.

Germany: Deutsche Reichstags-Bibliothek, Berlin.

Greece: Bibliothèque Nationale, Athens.

Haiti: Secrétairerie d'État des Relations Extérieures, Port au Prince.

Hungary Hungarian House of Delegates, Budapest.

India: Home Department, Government of India, Calcutta.

Ireland: National Library of Ireland, Dublin.

Italy Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele, Rome.

Japan: Department of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo.

Manitoba: Provincial Library, Winnipeg.

Mexico: Instituto Bibliográfico, Biblioteca Nacional, Mexico.
Netherlands: Library of the States General, The Hague.

New South Wales: Board for International Exchanges, Sydney.

New Zealand: General Assembly Library, Wellington.
Norway: Storthingets Bibliothek, Christiania.

Ontario: Legislative Library, Toronto.

Peru: Biblioteca Nacional, Lima.
Portugal: Bibliotheca Nacional, Lisbon.
Prussia: Königliche Bibliothek, Berlin.
Quebec Legislative Library, Quebec.
Queensland: Parliamentary Library, Brisbane.
Russia: Imperial Public Library, St. Petersburg.
Saxony: Königliche Oeffentliche Bibliothek, Dresden.
Servia Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, Belgrade.

South Australia: Parliamentary Library, Adelaide.

Spain: Servicio del Cambio Internacional de Publicaciones, Cuerpo Facultativo de Archiveros, Bibliotecarios y Arqueólogos, Madrid.

Sweden: Kungliga Biblioteket, Stockholm.

Switzerland: Bibliothèque Fédérale, Berne.
Tasmania: Parliamentary Library, Hobart.

Transvaal: Government Library, Pretoria.

Turkey: Department of Public Instruction, Constantinople.

Uruguay: Oficina de Depósito, Reparto y Canje Internacional de Publicaciones, Montevideo.

Venezuela: Biblioteca Nacional, Carácas.

Victoria Public Library, Melbourne.

Western Australia: Public Library of Western Australia, Perth.

Württemberg: Königliche Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart.

DEPOSITORIES OF PARTIAL SETS.

Alberta Legislative Library, Edmonton.

Alsace-Lorraine: K. Ministerium für Elsass-Lothringen, Strassburg.

Bolivia: Ministerio de Colonización y Agricultura, La Paz.

British Columbia: Legislative Library, Victoria.

Bremen: Senatskommission für Reichs- und Auswärtige Angelegenheiten.

Bulgaria: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sofia.

Ceylon: United States Consul, Colombo.

Ecuador: Biblioteca Nacional, Quito.

Egypt: Bibliothèque Khédiviale, Cairo.

Guatemala: Secretary of the Government, Guatemala.

Hamburg: Senatskommission für die Reichs- und Auswärtigen Angelegenheiten, Hesse: Grossherzogliche Hof-Bibliothek, Darmstadt.

Honduras: Secretary of the Government, Tegucigalpa.

Jamaica Colonial Secretary, Kingston.

Liberia Department of State, Monrovia.

Lourenço Marquez: Government Library, Lourenço Marquez.

Malta: Lieutenant-Governor, Valetta.

Montenegro: Ministère Princier des Affaires Étrangères, Cetinje.

Natal: Colonial Governor, Pietermaritzburg.

Newfoundland: Colonial Secretary, St. Johns.

New Brunswick: Legislative Library, St. John.

Nicaragua: Superintendente de Archivos Nacionales, Managua.
Northwest Territories: Government Library, Regina.
Nova Scotia: Provincial Secretary of Nova Scotia, Halifax.
Orange River Colony: Government Library, Bloemfontein.
Panama Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores, Panama.
Prince Edward Island: Legislative Library, Charlottetown.