Patents granted, including reissues and designs, 14,100; trade-marks registered, 1,505; labels registered, 492; forfeited for non-payment of final fee after allowance, 668.
The total receipts from all sources $734,887.98, an increase over last year of $19,923.25. Total expenditures, including $50,000 for repair of models, $665,906.02; leaving an excess of receipts over expenditures of $68,981.96.
The treaty between the United States and Great Britain for the reciprocal protection of the marks of manufacture and trade in the two countries, proclaimed by the President July 17, 1878, has already produced good results, mutually advantageous to the citizens of both nations.
During the year duplicate copies of all British patents have been received. The contribution is a valuable one, especially to the examining corps of the office.
The Commissioner reports the restoration of 18,563 models damaged by the fire of September, 1877. A careful record has been kept of the repaired models, showing the condition of each when taken up for repair.
The work has been skillfully done and reflects credit on those employed.
The necessity of additional room is daily growing more apparent. The various divisions are suffering front this cause, some of them lacking the proper space for the desk-room needed for the transaction of business. The continued accumulation of applications, works of reference, copies of drawings and specifications, models, &c., will in the near future crowd the working force out of the building, unless relief is found by providing the additional room needed.
Previous recommendations are renewed by the Commissioner for liberal appropriations for the purchase of books of reference for the library and for the preparation of complete digests of United States patents. As the office yields a handsome revenue over and above all its expenditures, it would appear but simple justice to the inventors who contribute to this revenue that a portion of the surplus should be yearly appropriated for the improvement of its scientific library and for the preparation of such digests of patents as will facilitate the work of examination and make its results more accurate and valuable.
EDUCATION.
The Commissioner of Education reports increased attention to the collection of statistics and increased use by the public of the facts thus collected. He states that the small force of his office has been unequal to the performance of its regular current business, and that he has been compelled to delay special reports or set them aside for the time.
A special report is being prepared on Indian education from the sixteenth century to the present time.
The amount of lands and money hitherto granted by the general goverment to the several States for the benefit of education, and the amount
