documents have been received as follows: Baden, 80 volumes and pamphlets; Belgium, 79; Bolivia, 24; Budapest, 66; Bulgaria, 126; Ceylon, 66; Chile, 126; Cuba, 36; Denmark, 549 volumes and pamphlets and 73 maps; Egypt, 311 volumes and pamphlets and 13 maps; Hesse, 10 volumes and pamphlets; Iceland, 33; India, 67; Japan, 473; Jamaica, 78; the London County Council, 32; Malta, 15; Netherlands, 71; Newfoundland, 62; Salvador, 95; Siam, 103; South Australia, 176; Spain, 42. Gifts from foreign governments also include the complete set (already mentioned) of the great encyclopedia, the Tu Shu Tsi Cheng, in 5,041 volumes, presented by the Chinese Government through its ambassador on special mission, His Excellency T'ang Shao-Yi, in December last. In May a further consignment of 291 volumes of Chinese books and 4 maps was received from the Shanghai Taotai in exchange for the United States documents forwarded to the Bureau of Foreign Affairs at Shanghai since the establishment of international exchange relations with China. exchanges The Kingdom of Servia, which was one of the signatories International to the Brussels International Exchange Convention of 1886, not having established a bureau of exchanges or otherwise complied with the terms of that convention, the Smithsonian Institution, in February, 1907, requested the Department of State to bring the matter to the attention of the Servian Government. A reply was received through the Department of State from the foreign office at Belgrade in January last to the effect that the different departments of Servia had been directed to send to this Government their official, scientific, and literary publications. Servia has accordingly been added to the list of countries receiving full sets of United States documents, and the first shipment of volumes accumulated since 1901 was made through the Bureau of International Exchanges immediately on the receipt of this communication. State docu ments Municipal documents Exchange relations with Alsace-Lorraine were established in April, 1909, on the basis of a partial set of United States documents. The want lists of the journals and documents of the various state legislatures and of the reports of state officers, which were printed in galley form and sent out to other libraries, have been instrumental in adding to our collections, by interlibrary exchange, much of the material that was wanting in the sets of these publications. It is proposed to reprint a revised want list for this class of documents in pamphlet form shortly. Special attention has been given during the year to the development of the collection of municipal documents, and the accessions under the heading "Gifts from local governments" are, in consequence, about four times as numerous as in the preceding report. The sets of reports of chambers of commerce have also been brought up to date, about 300 volumes and pamphlets having been added to the collection of these publications. During the year 9,279 volumes were sent to the bindery. The more noteworthy accessions have been: "Laws of Georgia, 1755-1770, printed by James Johnston, 1763-1770," all bound in one volume, of which only four copies are known to exist. This volume, extremely valuable from both a legal and an historical standpoint, completes the Library's collection of all the Georgia laws prior to 1775 that were printed. “Louisiana Laws, 7th Leg., 1st Sess. 1864, Shreveport, 1864," a very rare Confederate session. France, Recueil Général de Jurisprudence... 18911908. 18 vols.; Revue Catholique des Institutions et du Droit, 1872-1908. 72 vols.; Italy, Annali di Giurisprudenza. 1839-65. 30 vols.; Archivio Giuridico. 18681908. 80 vols.; Bullettino dell'Istituto di Diritto Romano. 1888-1906. 19 vols.; Encyclopedia Giuridica Italiana. 35 vols.; Il Filangieri. 1876-1907. 44 vols.; Il Foro Italiano. 1876-1907. 59 vols.; Giurisprudenza Italiana. 1848–1907. 61 vols.; La Legge. 1861-1908. 102 vols.; Monitore dei Tribunali. 1860-1905. 46 vols.; Rivista di Diritto Ecclesiastico . . . 1890–1906. 1890-1906. 16 vols.; Roman Law, Donellus, INDEX TO THE STATUTES AT LARGE In the fall of 1908 there was distributed by the Government Printing Office Volume I of the Index to the Statutes at Large, authorized by the act of June 30, 1906. This volume covers the general and permanent law contained in the Revised Statutes of 1873 and in the Statutes at Large thereafter enacted down to 1907 (volumes 18-34), together with a table of express repeals and amendments, and a list giving the popular names of acts and resolutions. The force is at present engaged in indexing the general and permanent law in the first seventeen volumes of the Statutes at Large, in accordance with the plan approved by the Judiciary Committees of both Houses of Congress LAW LIBRARY: MAPS AND CHARTS: Accessions under the act of March 4, 1909. The appropriation for this is in terms as follows: "Index to the Statutes at Large: For continuing the preparation of an index to the Statutes at Large of the United States, ten thousand dollars, to be expended by the Librarian of Congress for the salaries of the persons whom he employs to prepare the index and for incidental expenses; the scope, classification, and style of the index to be such as the Judiciary Committees of the two Houses of Congress shall direct or approve." (35 Stat. L., 858.) DIVISION OF MAPS AND CHARTS (From the report of the Chief, Mr. Phillips) The following tables, A and B, respectively, show the number of accessions for the year and the total number of pieces in the Map Division: TABLE. A-Accessions, July 1, 1908 to June 30, 1909 TABLE B-Total number of pieces in Map Division, June 30, 1909 The increase in the number of accessions for the fiscal year 1907-8 was due to purchases made in Europe, in the summer of 1907, by the Chief of this Division. The preceding tables do not include the total number of sheets in the Sanborn insurance collection. During the past year 912 maps in 9,510 sheets have been added. This entire collection now comprises 19,763 maps in 161,389 sheets. Sanborn surance maps vey in There have been added to the British Ordnance Survey Ordnance surmaps 1,339 sheets, making a total of 15,376 sheets, which also are not included in the above tables. The efforts of the staff in this Division have during the past year been largely concentrated upon the work of seeing through the press the "List of Geographical Atlases" in the Library, the compilation of which has been in progress for many years past, and the publication of which has just taken place. The two volumes (aggregating 1,659 pages), though primarily a catalogue of our own collection, form a unique contribution to cartography, whose scientific value to investigators and whose economic value to institutions will, it is hoped, justify the great labor of preparation and the considerable cost of issue. DIVISION OF MUSIC (From the report of the Chief, Mr. Sonneck) Accessions of the Music Division for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909 |