18 



MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



appropriations have made it possible for me to secure the 

 rare Seville edition, of 1535, of Oviedo's Historia General de 

 las Indias, as well as several of the early publications of De 

 Laet and others on the West-Indian region. 



The list of biological serial publications represented in the 

 libraries of St. Louis, to which reference has been made in 



brarian to be ready for 



d. as it oromiscs to be 



I tri 



year 

 and 



As in 1906, in addition to caring for current accessions 



with a general shelf revision of the library, and during the 



cards have been 



verified 



Additions number 947 books, valued at $1,612.25, and 



valued 



received 



and 



phlets bought, the expenditure for purchases and binding 



amounting to $2,227. 15. 

 The card index has been enlarged by the addition of 58,068 



cards, of which 47,148 were written by employees, the re- 



; purchased. Special attention has been given 

 )lant illustrations, and the literature of floral 



mainder bein 

 to indexins: 



ecology and germination, the librarian's hope being that the 

 entries referring to the last-named subject, which are already 

 some 52,000 in number, may eventually be published in the 



^ 



form of a detailed bibliogi^aphy. 



The serial publications now received number 1,416, of 

 which 99 arc bought, and 1,317, issued by 935 institutions or 

 publishers, arc received in exchange for the Reports of the 

 Garden. This number is 57 larger than that reported last year. 



As now constituted; the library contains: 



n ■ 



Pamphlets 33,735 



Books 24,421 



. Manuscript volumes 



Total 



58,156 valued at 



11 



58,233 



Index cards 620,921 



Total valuation of library 



<r 



U 



II 



u 



$86,597 78 

 910 ,00 



87,507 78 

 6,299 21 



$93,806 99 



* Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 1 7 : 36. 18 : 20. 



