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donated or received by way of exchange. Sixty large vol- 
umes of Dr. Engelmann’s manuscript notes and sketches 
are appraised at $600.00. An indexer has been kept 
steadily employed during the greater part of the year on 
the card index of plant illustrations in the library; and the 
card index of Experiment Station literature published by 
the United States Department of Agriculture, and a set of 
index cards referring to recently published plant names, 
have been added by purchase. It is estimated that the 
card indexes at the library now number about 110,000 
cards appraised at $1,100.00, exclusive of the authors’ 
catalogue of books and pamphlets. Exclusive of the Stur- 
tevant prelinnean collection of about 460 volumes, which 
has not yet been appraised and added to the capital stock 
account, the library now contains :— 
Books...... 7,631 
Pamphlets.. 9,822 
Together. 17,458 works, and 110,000 index cards,valued at $29,630.23. 
I have been assisted in office and similar work by Mr. J. 
C. Whitten, Horticultural Assistant, Jared G. Smith, 
Botanical Assistant, Miss Grace E. Johnson, Artist, Eva 
M. Reed, Indexer, and C. E. Hutchings, Amanuensis. In 
October, Mr. Whitten left the Garden to accept the pro- 
fessorship of horticulture at the Missouri State University, 
and his place has been filled by the appointment of Mr. 
H. C. Irish, of the South Dakota Agricultural Col- 
lege. In addition to the necessary routine work, time 
has been found for a certain amount of research work 
by Mr. Smith and myself, and phenological notes were 
also made through the year by Mr. Whitten, and by garden 
pupils under his direction. Several papers embodying the 
results of such work are now in preparation. The Garden 
table at the Wood’s Holl Marine Biological Laboratory 
was again used this year by Mr. M. A. Brannon, who in- 
forms me that his studies on Grinnellia are now so far 
