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MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



As now constituted, the library contains 



Pamphlets 36,201 



Books 25,453 



Manuscripts: 

 Engelmann, Notes and 



61,654, valued at 



$96,182.79 



Sketches 60, valued at 



Engelmann, Thesis 

 Roetter, Sketches 



1 

 1 



Shaw, Notes 5 



Sturtevant, Index Rerum 

 Price, Bird and Insect 



11 



Sketches 



Leconte, Insect Sketches 

 Bay, Bibliotheca Riviniana 

 Lindheimer, Miscellaneous 

 Theses by Garden Pupils 



2 



8 



1 



1 



10 



Theses by Graduate Students 8 



108 



Total 



61,762 



Index cards 719,377 



Total value of library 



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1,538.00 



$ 97,720.79 

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$104,914.56 



Though it has not been possible to provide for the entire 

 library under one roof, as was done for the herbarium, the 

 addition to the library building has made it possible to 

 bring the most-used classes of books once more together, those 

 left in the old Museum building, though less quickly acces- 

 sible, being safely housed. Two floors of the new building 



quipped 



ed 



books referring to a given group of plants are appropriately 

 shelved near the specimens ; both the herbarium and library 

 are capable of rearrangements and replacements at will, as 

 they increase and are fitted into new quarters from time to 



time, 

 in the 



"o correspond with the changed sequence of families 

 herbarium, the portion of the library that deals 

 with taxonomy has been readjusted so as to follow 



the 



