EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 21 
The library, which at first contained considerably less 
than 5,000 volumes and pamphlets, has increased to: 
Pamphlets. ..ces csc ecstoccece 12,848 
Books (general) ....-+e+e+sees 9,885 valued at............ $36,144 23 
Books (Sturtevant Prelinnean 
Jibrary)* »..csscsccossvesee 463 aoe rere 2,315 00 
MS. volumes (Engelmann)..... 60 hh Oe ta ani cmt 600 00 
(ReNNS ceck dav scees ss 1 ae ee 100 00 
OU ek ee oe wee 23,257 < ee $39,159 23 
Index cards...-......+.eeeees 165,969 ue OC eveewewees $1,659 69 
During the past year, 219 volumes and 702 pamphlets, 
valued at $539.55, were donated to the library, and 571 
volumes and 1,216 pamphlets were purchased, $3,310.45 
having been expended for purchases and binding for the 
library. The index has been increased during the past year 
by the incorporation of 19,912 cards, of which 5,350 were 
purchased, and the remainder written by the Garden in- 
dexers. 
Notwithstanding the provision of safe and, for the time 
being, ample quarters for the library and herbarium 
in the reconstructed city residence, it has not yet been 
found practicable to remove the numerous wood specimens, 
and other unattractive but necessary and valuable material, 
from the old museum building, so as to free the latter for 
other uses, nor has it proved possible to spare funds for 
the purchase of material and the salary of an assistant who 
should be charged with the installation and maintenance of a 
museum illustrating some branch of pure or applied botany, 
such as might be accommodated in this small building were 
it empty. 
Aside from an increase in the plant-houses, and the ac- 
cumulation of books, living and preserved specimens of 
plants and their parts, and a small collection of insects, no 
considerable facilities for research have been acquired at 
* Reports iv. 14; v.16; vi. 16; vii. 18, 123-209. 
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