Report of the International Exchange Service Under the Direction of the Smithsonian Institution

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The Service., 1914
 

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Page 75 - States on January 15, 1889, there shall be supplied to the Library of Congress not to exceed one hundred and twenty-five copies each of all Government publications, including the daily and bound copies of the Congressional Record, for distribution, through the Smithsonian Institution, to such foreign governments as may agree to send to the United States similar publications of their governments for delivery to the Library of Congress
Page 6 - Servia, desiring to assure the immediate exchange of the Official Journal as well as of the parliamentary Annals and Documents...
Page 12 - Smithsonian agents and many of these bureaus will likewise receive from correspondents In their countries such publications for addresses in the United States and territory subject to its Jurisdiction as may be delivered to them under rules similar to those prescribed herein, and will forward them to Washington, after which the Institution will undertake their distribution. On the receipt of a consignment from a domestic source it is assigned a 14 record number," which number is placed on each package...
Page 1 - The States which have not taken part in the present Convention are admitted to adhere to it on their request. This adhesion will be notified diplomatically to the Belgian Government and by that Government to all the other signatory States.
Page 77 - Marquez. LUBECK : President of the Senate. MADRAS, PROVINCE OF: Chief Secretary to the Government of Madras, Public Department, Madras. MALTA: Minister for the Treasury, Valetta.
Page 11 - The bureaus of exchange will serve, in an officious capacity, as intermediaries between the learned bodies and literary and scientific societies, etc. of the contracting States for the reception and transmission of their publications.
Page 85 - Institution established relations with certain foreign scientific societies and libraries, by menus of which it was enabled to materially assist institutions and Individuals of this country in the transmission of their publications abroad, and also foreign societies and Individuals In distributing their publications in the United States. In recent years the Smithsonian Institution has been...
Page 80 - Library— the full set of governmental documents that had been forwarded to that country since 1876 was changed last year to a partial set. In compliance with a later request, the depository has again been listed to receive a full set. A list of the foreign depositories is given below : DEPOSITORIES OF FULL SETS ARGENTINA: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Buenos Aires. BUENOS AIRES : Blblioteca de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata.

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