LIST OF BUREAUS OR AGENCIES THROUGH WHICH EXCHANGES ARE TRANSMITTED.

The following is a list of bureaus or agencies through which the distribution of exchanges is effected. Those in the larger and many in the smaller countries forward to the Smithsonian Institution, in return, contributions for distribution in the United States:

Algeria, via France.

Angola, via Portugal.

Argentina: Comisión Protectora de Bibliotecas Populares, Reconquista 538,

Buenos Aires.

Austria : K. K. Statistische Central-Commission, Vienna.

Azores, via Portugal.

Belgium: Service Belge des Échanges Internationaux, Rue du Musée 5, Brussels.

Bolivia: Oficina Nacional de Estadística, La Paz

Brazil: Serviço de Permutações Internacionaes, Bibliotheca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro.

British Colonies: Crown Agents for the Colonies, London.1

British Guiana: Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society, Georgetown.
British Honduras: Colonial Secretary, Belize.

Bulgaria: Institutions Scientifiques de S. M. le Roi de Bulgarie, Sofia.
Canary Islands, via Spain.

Cape Colony: Government Stationery Department, Cape Town.

Chile: Servicio de Canjes Internacionales, Biblioteca Nacional, Santiago.

China: Zi-ka-wei Observatory, Shanghai.

Colombia: Oficina de Canjes Internacionales y Reparto, Biblioteca Nacional, Bogota.

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

Denmark: Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Copenhagen.

Dutch Guiana Surinaamsche Koloniale Bibliotheek, Paramaribo.

Ecuador: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Quito.

Egypt: Director-General, Survey Department, Giza (Mudiria).

France: Service Français des Echanges Internationaux, 110 Rue de Grenelle, Paris.

Germany: Amerika-Institut, Berlin, N. W. 7.

Great Britain and Ireland: Messrs. William Wesley & Son, 28 Essex Street, Strand, London.

Greece: Bibliothèque Nationale, Athens.

Greenland, via Denmark.

Guadeloupe, via France.

Guatemala: Instituto Nacional de Varones, Guatemala.

Guinea, via Portugal.

Haiti: Secrétaire d'Etat des Relations Extérieures, Port au Prince.

Honduras: Biblioteca Nacional, Tegucigalpa.

Hungary: Dr. Julius Pikler, Municipal Office of Statistics, City Hall, Budapest. Iceland, via Denmark.

India India Store Department, India Office, London.

Italy: Ufficio degli Scambi Internazionali, Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele, Rome.

1 This method is employed for communicating with several of the British colonies with which no medium is available for forwarding exchanges direct.

Jamaica Institute of Jamaica, Kingston.

Japan: Imperial Library of Japan, Tokyo.

Java, via Netherlands.

Korea: His Imperial Japanese Majesty's Residency-General, Seoul.

Liberia Department of State, Monrovia.

Lourenço Marquez: Government Library, Lourenço Marquez.
Luxemburg, via Germany.

Madagascar, via France.

Madeira, via Portugal.

Montenegro: Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, Cetinje.

Mozambique, via Portugal.

Natal: High Commissioner for the Union of South Africa, London.

Netherlands: Bureau Scientifique Central Néerlandais, Bibliothèque de l'Université, Leyden.

New Guinea, via Netherlands.

New South Wales: Board for International Exchanges, Public Library, Sydney. New Zealand: Dominion Museum, Wellington.

Nicaragua: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Managua.

Norway: Kongelige Norske Frederiks Universitet Bibliotheket, Christiania. Panama Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores, Panama.

Paraguay: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Asuncion.

Persia: Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, New York City. Peru: Oficina de Reparto, Depósito y Canje Internacional de Publicaciones, Ministerio de Fomento, Lima.

Portugal: Serviço de Permutações Internacionaes, Bibliotheca Nacional, Lisbon. Queensland: Chief Secretary's Office, Brisbane.

Russia: Commission Russe des Echanges Internationaux, Bibliothèque Impériale Publique, St. Petersburg.

Salvador: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, San Salvador.

Servia: Section Administrative du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, Belgrade. Siam: Department of Foreign Affairs, Bangkok.

South Australia: Public Library of South Australia, Adelaide.

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

Sumatra, via Netherlands.

Sweden: Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps Akademien, Stockholm.

Switzerland: Service des Echanges Internationaux, Bibliothèque Fédérale Centrale, Bern.

Syria: Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, New York.

Tasmania: Royal Society of Tasmania, Hobart.

Transvaal: Government Library, Pretoria.

Trinidad: Victoria Institute, Port of Spain.

Tunis, via France.

Turkey: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Boston.

Uruguay: Oficina de Canje Internacional, Montevideo.

Venezuela: Biblioteca Nacional, Caracas.

Victoria Public Library of Victoria, Melbourne.

Western Australia: Public Library of Western Australia, Perth.

Windward and Leeward Islands: Imperial Department of Agriculture, Bridgetown, Barbados.

Table showing the number of institutions and individuals in foreign countries to which packages were transmitted through the International Exchange Service during the first six months of the fiscal year 1912.

Table showing the number of institutions and individuals in foreign countries to which packages were transmitted through the International Exchange Service during the first six months of the fiscal year 1912-Continued.

APPENDIX 4.

REPORT ON THE NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK.

SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith a report of the operations of the National Zoological Park for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1912.

The general appropriation made by Congress for the improvement and maintenance of the park during that year was $100,000. The cost of maintenance was $86,132, being materially increased over that of the previous year mainly because of the advance in prices of forage and other food supplies, the expenditure for which amounted to $21,175. A few small increases were made in the compensation of employees, but nothing to correspond with the great increase in the cost of living which has occurred during recent years.

ACCESSIONS.

Among these the most important were 2 elephant seals and 4 northern fur seals from the United States Bureau of Fisheries, 8 white pelicans from Lieut. Col. L. M. Brett, acting superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park, and a pair of American tapirs, which, with certain other animals, were received in exchange, as noted below. The accessions included about 25 species not already represented in the collection. Mammals and birds born and hatched numbered 108, and included American tapir, yak, American bison, harnessed antelope, Barasingha deer, llama, mona monkey, hairy armadillo, wild turkey, and Florida cormorant.

EXCHANGES.

The most important accession from this source was a shipment received in November, 1911, from the Municipal Zoological Garden at Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic, which comprised 23 animals and included a pair each of Brazilian tapirs, Patagonian cavies, and Chilean eagles, with other interesting mammals and birds. A sambar deer was received from the New York Zoological Park, and a considerable number of specimens from dealers.