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and (3) the preparation of lists in typewritten form which are available in special exigencies. These latter differ from the printed lists only in the fact that they are unprinted. Below is a list of the subjects treated by the Division during the year.

Advertising (35 p.); Agricultural education in Denmark, England, France, and Germany (4 p.); Determination of alcohol in organic substances (4 p.); Sanitation and public hygiene in ancient Rome (2 p.); Archives and their care in the United States (5 p.); Armed merchant vessels (6 p.); Ballot reform exclusive of the Short ballot (9 p.); Bible in art, history, and literature (5 p.); Biographies of Americans prominent since the Civil war (11 p.); Big brother and Big sister movements (2 p.); Canberra, capital of Australia (3 p.); Chain stores (4 p.); History of chemical industry (2 p.); City manager plan of municipal government (11 p.); English translation of Italian classics (5 p.); English translation of Spanish classics (4 p.); Cloture (7 p.); Cocoanuts and cocoanut oil (3 p.); Combustion of hydro-carbon gases (3 p.); Commercial year-books and similar publications (7 p.); Commercialism (4 p.); Conservation and preservation of scenery, historic monuments, etc. (3 p.); Conservation of natural resources-Speeches in Congress (2 p.); Contempt of court (3 p.); Continental Congress (6 p.); Cost of selling (5 p.); Czechs or Bohemians (3 p.); Supplementary list on the Danish West Indies (2 p.); Defenses of the United States (6 p.); Domestic science (especially food and cooking) in relation to working people (12 p.); Dumping (10 p.); Dyestuffs (Chemistry, manufacture and trade) (11 p.); East India Company (9 p.); Life and inventions of Thomas A. Edison (5 p.); Construction and operation of passenger and freight elevators (5 p.); Embargo (12 p.); Additional references on Employers' liability and workmen's compensation (3 p.); Employers' liability insurance (especially mutual or cooperative) (8 p.); National and municipal en

dowed theaters (5 p.); Effect of European war on religion (3 p.); Financial influence of European war, especially on the United States (5 p.); Forecasts of the conditions of Europe after the war (5 p.); Manufacture, testing, and transportation of explosives (8 p); Factors which determine rates of interest (5 p.); Recent books on Feminism (4 p.); Financial and banking relations between the United States and Latin America (9 p.); Fire prevention (Supplementary to list printed in Special Libraries Feb., 1913) (9 p.); Flour milling (3 p.); Fraudulent practices in the promotion of corporations and the sale of securities (9 p.); Freight classification (3 p.); Gadsden purchase (3 p.); Recent references on Garden cities (5 p); Uses of gases in warfare (2 p.); Explosion of gases (4 p.) ; Substitutes for gasoline in motor cars, engines, etc. (2 p.); Speeches in Congress on Government ownership (2 p.); Speeches in Congress on Government ownership of railroads (3 p.); Speeches in Congress on Government ownership of telephone and telegraph (2 p.); Americanization of the immigrant (4 p.); Imperialism, expansion, government of dependencies, etc. (2 p.); Industrial insurance (with special reference to Accident insurance) (6 p.); Industrial surveys (3 p.); Information bureaus in Washington, D. C. (2 p.); Internationalism (8 p.); Speeches in Congress on Intervention in Mexico (4 p.); Intervention in Nicaragua (1 p.); Iodine, chiefly its occurrence and manufacture (2 p.); Jewelry industry (3 p.); Selection of judges, appointment vs. election (7 p.); Design and construction of small library buildings (3 p.); Lincoln highway (2 p.); Liquor question in its hygienic, economic, and social phases (24 p.); Local option (3 p.); Long distance telephone communication (Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Continental) (2 p.); Mercantile marine subsidies and government operation of steamship lines (ship purchase) (Supplementary to printed lists 1906, 1911) (9 p.); Militarism (11 p.); Military and naval education in Germany (with special reference to the training of officers) (4 p.); Military

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SMITHSONIAN education in schools, colleges, and universities (9 p.); Militia (5 p.); Commerce in munitions of war between United States and European belligerents, 1914-1915 (5 p.); Nautical education (6 p.); Bibliographies on New England states (4 p:); Nicaraguan treaty (2 p.); Fixation of atmospheric nitrogen (4 p.); Open door policy in China (4 p.); Brief list on Panama-California Exposition (2 p.); Additional references on Panama-Pacific Exposition (2 p.); Patriotic societies (5 p.); Bibliographies on petroleum and animal and vegetable oils (5 p.); Independence of Philippines (11 p.); Police power (5 p.); Populist party (3 p.); Potash deposits in Spain and Chile (2 p.); Military and naval preparedness (4 p.); Speeches in Congress on preparedness (64th Cong., 1st sess.) (2 p.); Prison reform (7 p.); Recent references on Public service rates with special reference to regulation (Cabs, electricity, gas, street railways, telephone, water) (18 p.); Bibliographies on the Regulation of public utilities (4 p.); Publicity for the states (11 p.); Quarries for road-making materials in the several states (15 p.); Recall or dismissal of foreign representatives by the Executive (6 p.); Reindeer industry (4 p.); Research facilities in American libraries (5 p.); Bibliographies on Retailing (2 p.); Rice industry (2 p.); Races of Russia (5 p.); Seamen in the merchant marine (in relation to the Seamen's law of the United States, and Safety at sea) (14 p.); Secret diplomacy and a more democratic control of foreign policy (2 p.); Serpent in folklore and mythology (6 p.); Ship purchase bill (Speeches in Congress) (4 p.); Manufacture, chemistry, and physiological effects of snuff (3 p.); Soap (6 p.); Social centers (4 p.); Spectroscopy (8 p.); State military police (3 p.); Thaddeus Stevens (5 p.); Swiss military system (9 p.); Taft's (William Howard) plan for international peace (2 p.); Brief list on tariff (3 p.); Tariff commissions (16 p.); Taxation of inheritances, Jan., 1910Dec., 1915 (8 p.); Taxation of intangible property (with special reference to mortgages) (5 p.); Exemption from taxation

of the property of churches and educational institutions (4 p.); Textile machinery (16 p.); Management and finance of the theater and show business (3 p.); Tobacco leaf curing (2 p.); Stability of trade (3 p.); Trade and commercial directories of foreign countries (3 p.); Trade directories published in the United States (10 p.); Trade of the United States as affected by the war (Supplementary to list published in Special libraries, Dec., 1914) (14 p.); Trade organization in Germany (7 p.); Trade unions among government employees (6 p.); Traveling libraries (10 p.); International relations between United States and Russia (5 p.); Brief list on United States territorial possessions (2 p.); Relation between vagrancy and crime (3 p.); Valuation of real property for taxation (7 p.); Water terminals, particularly municipal owned water terminals (5 p.); Welfare work for laborers (12 p.); Wit, humor, laughter, satire, etc. (21 p.); History and development of Wyoming (3 p.).

The following lists were published in "Special libraries": List of references on Government aid to farmers and immigrants. Special libraries, Sept. 1915, v. 6: 119–126.

List of references on Traffic control in cities. Special libraries, Dec. 1915, v. 6: 163–170.

List of recent references on Public service rates with special reference to regulation. Special libraries, Feb. 1916, v. 7: 21-29.

List of references on the Cost of selling. Special libraries, Mar. 1916, V. 7: 47-49.

List of references on Advertising. Special libraries, Apr. 1916, v. 7: 61-76.

List of commercial year-books and similar publications (Supplementary). Special libraries, May, 1916, v. 7: 86–88.

SMITHSONIAN DEPOSIT

(From the annual reports of the Custodian, Mr. Brockett, and the assistant in charge, Mr. Parsons)

Mr. Brockett reports that the publications transmitted for the Deposit during the year amounted to 18,627 pieces, as follows: 3,101 volumes, 1,777 parts of volumes, 383 pamphlets, 13,155 periodicals, and 211 charts.

The year closed with one-third more borrowers registered and a normal increase in circulation. Loans were made to blind persons in 38 states.

A large percentage of the books sent out of the District of Columbia went to readers in the Middle West and South, where there are few embossed books available for the adult blind. Of the total borrowers, a considerable number only supplemented their reading with matter from the Library of Congress not obtainable in their own states. We con