3,251 letters, resulting in the addition of about 277 periodicals and in the receipt of about 2,948 missing parts.

The library has again cooperated with the International Exchanges in sending to foreign countries lists of government documents and serial publications of that class needed to complete the sets in the Library of Congress. In addition to the countries already enumerated in previous reports, lists have been sent to Natal, New Zealand, Spain, and Venezuela.

The publications in the reading room being in the main of a class not to be found elsewhere, a yearly increase is to be noted in the number of persons consulting them. The readers include scientific workers not only from Washington, but from other American and foreign cities. The staff has withdrawn for office use 52 bound volumes of periodicals and 3,336 parts of scientific periodicals and popular magazines. In addition, the various bureaus of the Government continue to avail themselves of the opportunity to use these publications as well as those in the sectional libraries of the institution.

The mail receipts numbered 43,222 packages, and 7,117 packages were received through the International Exchange Service. The publications contained therein were stamped and distributed for entry from the mail desk. About 5,111 acknowledgments were made on the regular forms in addition to the letters which were written in acknowledgment of publications received in response to the requests of the institution for exchange.

The employees' library.—The books added to this library by purchase numbered 30, and by binding 300 volumes of periodicals were made available for circulation. The total number of books borrowed was 2,092. The sending of a selected number of books from this library to the National Zoological Park has been continued, but the sending of books to the Bureau of American Ethnology was discontinued when the Bureau moved into the Smithsonian building in January, 1910.

Bibliography of aeronautics.-The manuscript for the Bibliography of Aeronautical Literature to July 1, 1909, was completed during the summer of that year, and the work, forming volume 55 of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, was published during the month of April, 1910. Numerous accessions have been made to the collection of aeronautical literature in the office library. The volumes have been bound and are now available for reference.

At the request of the American committee on cooperation with the International Congress of Archivists and Librarians, the assistant librarian prepared an answer to the question "Dans quel sens y a-t-il lieu de réorganiser et d'étendre le service des échanges internationaux?" The reply was sent in the latter part of January for presentation to the congress convening in Brussels August 27 to 31.

American Historical Association. The arranging of new exchanges of the annual reports of the American Historical Association from the allotment agreed upon for that purpose has resulted in a number of publications of historical societies throughout the world being added to the Smithsonian deposit at the Library of Congress.

UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM.

The library of the Museum has suffered from congestion and is handicapped in its work by lack of space. While it has continued to grow during the last ten years, no additional room has been available owing to the overcrowded condition of the Museum building. As the new building is now ready for the collections it will be possible in the near future for the library to have all the room necessary for expansion and proper classification. Many gifts of importance have been received, those deserving special mention being the publications presented

by Dr. Theodore N. Gill, Dr. Charles W. Richmond, Dr. Charles A. White, Dr. E. A. Schwartz, Dr. O. P. Hay, and Dr. Marcus Benjamin. The publications are scientific and of value in completing sets and filling in of the series of authors' separates.

In the death of Dr. Charles A. White the Museum library has lost one of its valued benefactors. Doctor White was at all times ready to forward the interests of the Museum library and gave material assistance in the work of completing its series of authors' separates and its sets of periodical publications. His gifts have been numerous and are of special value along the lines of the work upon which he was engaged.

Lists of the publications in the sectional libraries of the Museum have been made, and an experienced cataloguer has been checking them up with the publications on the shelves in the sections. The work of checking is uncompleted at the close of the fiscal year, but will be continued.

In the Museum library there are now 38,300 volumes, 61,858 unbound papers, and 110 manuscripts. The accessions during the year consisted of 2,056 books, 5,541 pamphlets, and 307 parts of volumes; 1,001 books, 1,055 complete volumes of periodicals, and 6,294 pamphlets were catalogued.

Attention has been given to the preparation of volumes for binding, with the result that 435 books were sent to the government bindery.

The number of books, periodicals, and pamphlets borrowed from the general library amounted to 23,272, including 4,148 from the collections which were assigned to the sectional libraries.

The sectional libraries established in the Museum have remained unchanged, the complete list now standing as follows:

The following table summarizes all the accessions during the year except for the Bureau of American Ethnology, which is separately administered: Smithsonian deposit in the Library of Congress, including parts to complete sets

Office, Astrophysical Observatory, National Zoological Park, and International Exchanges

10, 499

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APPENDIX VII.

REPORT ON THE INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC

LITERATURE.

SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report on the operations of the United States Bureau of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature for the year ending June 30, 1910.

The International Catalogue of Scientific Literature is an international cooperative enterprise having at present 32 regional bureaus scattered throughout the world, supported by the countries taking part in the work. The duties of these regional bureaus are to collect, index, and classify all contributions to pure science published within the several countries they represent. The material thus prepared is forwarded to the Central Bureau in London, there to be assembled and published.

The catalogue consists of 17 annual volumes, one for each of the following sciences: Mathematics, mechanics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, meteorology, mineralogy, geology, geography, paleontology, general biology, botany, zoology, anatomy, anthropology, physiology, and bacteriology.

The Central Bureau is maintained entirely by the funds received from the subscribers to the catalogue. The regional bureaus are in every case supported by the countries taking part in the enterprise, in the great majority of cases by direct govermental grants.

Since the beginning of the undertaking in 1901 the annual volumes have increased in size to such an extent that the cost of publication at one time exceeded the sum received from subscriptions, and it was necessary to curtail somewhat not only the methods of classifying the various subjects, but also the citation methods used in the subject catalogues. This is now being done without detracting in any way from the value of the catalogue as a work of reference, although the labor of preparation is in most cases much greater. The allotment for the present fiscal year was $6,000. Five persons are regularly engaged in the Bureau, and occasionally, when funds permit, the assistance of a specialist in some one of the sciences is temporarily employed.

There were 25,082 cards sent from this Bureau during the year as follows:

This number does not represent the actual number of citations sent, for on account of a new ruling of the Central Bureau some of the biological cards contained a number of citations each. However, the actual number of cita

tions has been reduced to approximately 28,000 for the year, which is about 6,000 less than was sent in for the previous year. This decrease is not entirely due to the new methods of classifying, for as the work is each year being brought more nearly up to date fewer old papers are indexed, consequently fewer citations are required. It is estimated that when the work is entirely up to date only about 25,000 citations will be needed to completely index the yearly scientific literature of the United States.

The following-named volumes of the catalogue were received and delivered to the subscribers in this country:

Seventh annual issue: Meteorology, General Biology, Botany, Anatomy, Anthropology, and Bacteriology.

Eighth annual issue: Mathematics, Mechanics, Astronomy, Mineralogy, and Zoology.

For a number of years it has been the aim to eventually prepare this catalogue not only through the cooperation of the various countries, but through direct cooperation of authors and publishers of the papers indexed. This method was actually tried during the present year in the preparation of the volume on zoology, and though it required writing about 517 letters, the result was so satisfactory that it is proposed to gradually extend the method to other sciences. As has been pointed out before, the London Central Bureau is maintained solely by means of the funds obtained from subscriptions to the catalogne, and the necessary cost of editing and printing is so great that $85 per year has to be charged for the complete set of 17 volumes. This large figure places the work beyond the reach of many who would undoubtedly purchase individual volumes, if not the complete sets. The cost of doubling the edition of the catalogue would be comparatively small, the outlay representing only the cost of press work and paper, and it is felt that if the edition could be doubled and the price reduced one-half, the work could be placed at once within the reach of many small libraries and scientific workers who need such works of reference.

At present the available funds prevent any such course being adopted, but a comparatively small endowment would not only render this move possible, but would enable the present restricted scope of the catalogue to be extended to include at first the applied sciences and then gradually the other records of human progress. A yearly income of $5,000 or $6,000 from a permanent endowment would enable the central bureau to take the necessary steps to first increase the circulation and then broaden the scope of the catalogue, and it is earnestly hoped that in the near future such an endowment may be obtained. There have been no losses of property during the year, excepting those caused by ordinary wear and deterioration.

In the sundry civil bill approved June 25, 1910, $7,500 was appropriated to carry on the work for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911. This sum is an increase of $1,500 over the appropriation of the present year.

Respectfully submitted.

Dr. CHARLES D. WALCOTT,

Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

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LEONARD C. GUNNELL,

Chief Assistant.

APPENDIX VIII.

REPORT ON THE PUBLICATIONS.

SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report on the publications of the Smithsonian Institution and its branches during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910:

There was distributed a total of 801 volumes and separates in the series of Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, 17,560 in the series of Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 28,879 in the series of Smithsonian Annual Reports, and 2,179 in the series of Special Publications. In addition, there were 959 publications not included in the Smithsonian series distributed by the Institution, and 5,274 publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology sent out during the six months from January 1 to June 30, 1910. This makes a grand total of 55,652, an increase of 11,489 over the previous year.

I. SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE.

No memoirs of the series of Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge were issued during the year, although progress was made in preparing for press the Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight which was begun by the late Secretary Langley in 1904 and continued by Mr. Charles M. Manly, assistant in charge of experiments.

II. SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS.

In the series of Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections there were published during the year (1) fifteen papers in the Quarterly Issue, which was discontinued December 31, 1909, completing volume 52 of the regular series; (2) one paper in volume 51; (3) seven papers in volume 54, completing that volume; (4) volume 55, Bibliography of Aeronautics; (5) and seven papers in volume 56. The Quarterly Issue papers were as follows: 1872. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Volume 52, part 4 (Quarterly Issue, vol. 5, part 4) containing Publications, 1873 to 1887. Published January 20, 1910. Octavo. Pages VIII, 403-514, with plates 38 to 66. (The Quarterly Issue ends with this volume.)

1873. Prehistoric Ruins of the Gila Valley. By J. Walter Fewkes. Published August 4, 1909. Octavo. Pages 403 to 436, with Plates 38 to 42. 1874. Description of a New Frog from the Philippine Islands. By Leonhard Stejneger, Curator, Division of Reptiles and Batrachians, U. S. National Museum. Published August 4, 1909. Octavo. Pages 437-439.

1875. A New Genus of Fossil Cetaceans from Santa Cruz Territory, Patagonia; and Description of a Mandible and Vertebræ of Prosqualodon. By Frederick W. True, Head Curator of Biology, U. S. National Museum. Published August 7, 1909. Octavo. Pages 441-456, with Plates 43 to 45.

1876. Notes on Certain Features of the Life of the Alaskan Freshwater Sculpin. By Barton A. Bean and Alfred C. Weed, of the Division of Fishes, U. S. National Museum. Published August 19, 1909. Octavo. Pages 457-460.