30 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
As now constituted, the library contains: — 
Pamphlets ......., 22,788 
Books.  . . .. . . . 19,408 
42,196 valued at . . . $70,430 85. 
Manuscript volumes... , 66 rs) owe er 800 00 
Total. . . , 42,262 wes ke 
Indexcards. . . . . . . 811,218 of: Os ees 3,112 18 
Total valuation of library . . + > + «© $74,843 03 
The distinct serial publications now received number 
1,185, of which 99 represent subscriptions, and 1,086, 
issued by 831 institutions or publishers, are received in 
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SERIAL PUBLICATIONS. 
exchange for the Reports of the Garden. With so large a 
list of periodicals referring to a limited subject, increase is 
not rapidly made, but 255, or 27.4 per cent, have been 
added to the 930 recorded five years ago, —an average of 
about 5.5 per cent for each of the last five years. 
In 1903, 235 copies of the now antiquated little handbook 
of the Garden were sold, and a large number of copies have 
been presented to bodies of specially invited visitors, — 
chiefly representatives of the press. 
