16 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



volumes 



form 



ing a portion of the material received some years ago with 

 the Engelmann herbarium, and 1,719 thin veneers of 

 woods, mounted as transparencies, and comprising 541 sec- 



Jesup Collection of 



New 



© 



American Woods, and 1,100 sections, comprising the entire 



far issued, of 



Holzqu 



schnitte. 



During the year, 1,320 volumes and 1,344 pamphlets 



penditur 



$3,389.47; and 284 



umes, valued at $439.20, and 983 pamphlets, valued 



ge. In 



$169.85, have been received by donation or exchai 

 the summer, the prelinnean library donated by Dr. E. 

 Lewis Sturtevant, of South Framingham, Massachusetts,* 

 consisting of 463 volumes, many of them containing 

 several treatises, and accompanied by a number of volumes 

 and pamphlets pertaining to more recent botany, was 

 received at the Garden, and has been arranged. The 

 catalogue of this collection, for publication in the Garden 

 Eeport, has been carried nearly to completion, but this 

 publication will be deferred for the sixth Garden Report; 



d 



the books, so 



that they have not been added to the capital stock account. 

 Exclusive of the Sturtevant gift, the library at present 

 contains : 



Books 6,829 



Pamphlets 8,657 



Together 15,486 works, valued at $25,268 52 



An indexer has been kept steadily employed during the 

 greater part of the past year on the card index of illus- 

 trations in the Garden library, and some 20,000 unpublished 



See Report for 1892, page 14 



