FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 21 
The current list of serial publications received includes 
1,160 titles, of which 92 represent purchases, and 1,068, 
issued by 817 institutions or publishers, exchanges. The 
yearly increase in exchange publications received at the 
Garden is shown by the diagram I. 
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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED BY EXCHANGE. 
During the year, 183 copies of the little handbook were 
sold, and a considerable number were given away, princi- 
pally to representatives of the press, entertained in St. 
Louis by the World’s Fair management. : 
The third and eighth volumes of the Garden Reports, 
the edition of which had become exhausted, have been re- 
printed from the original electrotypes, 500 copies of each 
being secured. 
The following changes in the personnel of the office have 
been made in 1902: Mrs. A. E. Ford was appointed 
stenographer in place of Mr. C. E. Hutchings, who had 
filled that position for a long period of years, and Miss 
Eva Perles was appointed as an assistant in the library. 
Too much cannot be said in commendation of the efficiency 
of Mr. Irish, under whose immediate care the new plant- 
houses were built, on plans designed in detail by him, and 
of Mr. Harris, to whose energy the clearing up of accumu- ~ 
lated material in the herbarium was chiefly due. 
As has long been the policy of the Garden, research 
