Similar publications have been received from the technical high schools at― In carrying out the plan to effect new exchanges and to secure missing parts to complete sets, 2,396 letters were written, resulting in about 477 periodicals being added to the lists and the receipt of about 3,883 parts lacking in the sets, which partially filled or entirely completed the various series of publications in the Smithsonian deposit. In writing for the missing parts of publications the library has had assistance from the International Exchanges of the Institution, but the results of these requests can not be definitely stated, as the replies from them were still coming in at the close of the year. In addition, the library has cooperated with the International Exchanges in sending out lists of government documents and serial publications of that class needed to complete the sets in the Library of Congress to the following: Argentine Republic, Austria-Hungary, Baden, Bavaria, Belgium, Bolivia, Bremen, Province of Buenos Aires, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Department of the Seine and city of Paris, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Free City of Hamburg, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Honduras, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Malta, Mexico, Montenegro, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Prussia, Roumania, Russia, Sweden, Salvador, Saxony, city of Vienna, Uruguay, Wurttemberg. A decided increase has been noted in the number of persons consulting the publications in the reading room, and in addition there were issued, for office use, 30 bound volumes of periodicals and 3,706 parts of scientific periodicals and popular magazines, making a total of 3,736. While the consultation has been chiefly by members of the staff, the various bureaus of the Government have availed themselves of the opportunity to use these publications and those in the sectional libraries of the Institution. The mail receipts numbered 28,059 packages. The publications contained therein were stamped and distributed for entry from the mail desk. About 4,980 acknowledgments were made on the regular forms, which are in addition to those for publications received in response to the requests of the Institution for exchange. The employees' library.—The books added numbered 19, and of these 18 were purchased, while 110 volumes of periodicals were bound. The number of books borrowed was 1,922, and the sending of a selected number of books from this library to the National Zoological Park and the Bureau of American Ethnology has been continued. Art room. The cataloguing of the collection of engravings in the art room received attention as time would allow, but there still remains a great deal to be done. Bibliography of aeronautics.-The bibliography of aeronautical literature, which includes the indexing of papers in periodicals and proceedings of aeronautical societies, together with books and separate pamphlets on the subject, was completed, bringing the work up to July 1, 1909. At the close of the year the manuscript was ready for the printer. American Historical Association.-The exchange 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 received many gifts of importance during the year. Dr. Charles A. White, Dr. William Healey Dall, and Dr. Charles W. Richmond have added scientific publications which are of value in completing sets and filling in of the series of authors' separates. From the estate of Dr. Otis Tufton Mason, through the executor, Dr. E. B. Pollard, the Museum has received Doctor Mason's working library of anthropological publications, together with a collection of his manuscript notes. Dr. Wirt Tassin, for some time assistant curator of the Division of Mineralogy, contributed about 1,000 pamphlets relating to mineralogy and kindred subjects. There has also been secured by purchase from the estate of Dr. William H. Ashmead a complete collection of his writings, together with his manuscript notes. Acknowledgments are also due to Dr. E. A. Schwarz, Mr. Wilfred H. Osgood, Dr. O. P. Hay, and Dr. W. P. Hay for collections of publications which they have presented. Additions have also been received to the William Schaus collection and a special bookplate engraved for it is now being placed in the books. In the Museum library there are now 36,244 volumes, 56,010 unbound papers, and 110 manuscripts. The additions during the year consisted of 2,680 books, 3,671 pamphlets, and 227 parts of volumes. There were catalogued 1,280 books, 1,400 complete volumes of periodicals, and 4,213 pamphlets. Special attention has been given to the preparation of volumes for binding, with the result that 1,783 books were sent to the government bindery. The number of books, periodicals, and pamphlets borrowed from the general library amounted to 20,266, including 9,000 which were assigned to the sectional libraries. This does not include, however, the large number of books consulted in the library but not withdrawn. The sectional libraries established in the Museum have remained the same, 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 21, 167 Office, Astrophysical Observatory, National Zoological Park, and international exchanges 1,984 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 fiscal year ending June 30, 1909. The United States Regional Bureau is one of the 32 regional bureaus now cooperating, through a central bureau in London, in the production of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. The aim of the enterprise is to index and classify all current published scientific papers and by means of 17 annual volumes publish and distribute the data thus prepared to the various subscribers to the catalogue throughout the world. The methods employed in indexing and classifying each paper result in what is practically an analytical digest of the subject of each paper, this being accomplished by means of references to classification schedules which are arranged to include in systematic order each minute subdivision or subject of all the recognized natural and physical sciences. The regional bureaus are supported by the countries in which they are established, thus allowing all funds derived from subscriptions to be used to defray the actual cost of printing and publishing. The bureau in this country is supported by a direct congressional appropriation. The allotment for the present fiscal year was $5,000, the same as for previous years; the number of the staff has remained the same, namely, five persons. During the year there were 34.409 classified index cards prepared by this bureau and forwarded to London as follows: The corresponding total for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, was 28,528, thus showing an increase of 5,881, or over 20 per cent. There has been an increase also in the number of citations furnished by other bureaus, for since the beginning of the enterprise in 1901 the number of pages in the combined 17 annual volumes has increased nearly one-third, as shown by the following table: The number of cards sent from this regional bureau has increased as follows: For fiscal year 1902_ For fiscal year 1903_ For fiscal year 1904- For fiscal year 1909_. 6,990 14, 480 21, 213 24, 182 25, 601 28, 629 28, 528 34, 409 Should this increase continue it would add largely to the cost of publication, and as there would be no corresponding addition to the receipts a decided deficit would result, for the subscription price to the catalogue, namely, $85 a year for 17 volumes, was fixed on a basis of the size and cost of the first annual issue. It appears not only desirable, but necessary, to condense the references as much as possible, though condensation, without loss of usefulness, necessitates much greater care on the part of the classifier in preparing a digest. It can not be hoped that much change in the present methods can be made without increasing the force of the bureau. The following-named volumes of the catalogue were received and delivered to subscribers in this country, as follows: Sixth Annual Issue-Physics, Chemistry, Palæontology, General Biology, Botany, Anthropology, Physiology, and Bacteriology, completing the issue. Seventh Annual Issue-Mathematics, Mechanics, Physics, Astronomy, Mineralogy, Geology, Geography, Palæontology, and Zoology. Through the resignation of Dr. Cyrus Adler, assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, who was in charge of the United States branch of the International Catalogue, both this bureau and the organization as a whole met with a great loss, notwithstanding the fact that Doctor Adler still remains one of the members of the International Council, the body vested with the supreme control of the catalogue. Doctor Adler was closely identified with the work from the time the original ways and means were being discussed, and it is not too much to say that had it not been for his interest and efforts Mr. Langley, the late Secretary of the Institution, would not have aided the enterprise as he did with the private funds of the Institution. Had not this aid been forthcoming at the time the whole undertaking would have failed, for cooperation on the part of the United States was essential, and, this Government failing at first to lend its aid, there remained no other body than the Smithsonian Institution in a position to become responsible for the work in this country. It is felt that this International Catalogue of Scientific Literature is but a beginning of what will be eventually a great cooperative international index and digest of all records of human achievement. There is no question of the need for such a publication and, with the satisfactory beginning already made, it is a question of cost alone which limits the field of the present enterprise to include only the literature of pure science to the exclusion of the extensive and valuable literature of the applied sciences and other technical literature. There have been no losses of property during the year, excepting those caused by ordinary wear and deterioration. In the sundry civil bill approved March 1, 1909, $6,000 was appropriated to carry on the work for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910. This sum is an increase of $1,000 over the appropriation for previous years. Respectfully submitted. Dr. CHARLES D. WALCOTT, LEONARD C. GUNNELL, Chief Assistant, Bureau of International Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 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, 1909: There have been distributed a total of 757 volumes and separates in the series of Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, 15,080 in the series of Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 22,991 in the series of Smithsonian Annual Reports, and 4,022 in the series of Special Publications. In addition thereto there were sent out by the Institution 1,313 publications not included in the Smithsonian series, making a grand total of 44,163, a decrease of 15,732 from the previous year. The total number of letters relating to publications received amounted to 6,825, an increase of 280 over the previous year. I. SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE. In the series of Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge there appeared during the year no original papers, but there was published in August, to meet the increasing demand for the work, a reprint of Mr. Langley's memoir on The Internal Work of the Wind, originally published in 1893 in quarto form as No. 884, Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. To the present edition was added as an appendix a translation of the "Solution of a special case of the general problem," by Réné de Saussure, which appeared in 1893 with "Le Travail Intérieur du Vent" in Revue de l'Aéronautique Théorique et Appliqué, Paris, pages 58-68. II. SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS. In the series of Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume LII, there were published 20 papers in the quarterly issue, volume 5, parts 2 and 3; and in the regular series, Volume XXXV, a fourth revised edition of the Smithsonian Physical Tables by Thomas Gray; and in Volume LIII of the regular series, 3 papers by Charles D. Walcott. Quarterly issue. Volume 5, In the quarterly issue the following papers were published: 1813. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. part 2 (containing Nos. 1814-1823). Octavo. IX-XVIII. 1814. The Nettelroth Collection of Invertebrate Fossils. By R. S. Bassler. Published September 23, 1908. Octavo. Pages 121-152, with Plates IX-XI. 1815. A New Opuntia from Arizona. By J. N. Rose. Published October 6, 1908. Octavo. Page 153, with Plate XII. 1816. The Story of the Devil-Fish. By Theodore Gill. Published October 15, 1908. Octavo. Pages 155-180. 1817. Indians of Peru. By Charles C. Eberhardt, American consul at Iquitos, Peru. Published October 24, 1908. Octavo. Pages 181-194, with Plates XIII, XIV. 1818. On Opuntia Santa-Rita, a Species of Cactus of Ornamental Value. By J. N. Rose, associate curator, division of plants, United States National Museum. Published December 29, 1908. Octavo. Pages 195, 196, with Plate XV. |