...has also aided financially in the publication of specialized bibliographies, handbooks, compendiums, and other valuable reference works that could not...Commission, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the Army Map Service, and others have developed depositories in various libraries for the materials...

...the Fish Commission (now part of the Department of the Interior), the National Geographic Society, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (now National Aeronautics and Space Administration), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. As the usefulness and scope of the Smithsonian's...