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These gifts have all been acknowledged personally and a full list 

 follows at the end of the report. 



With the anticipated increase in space and especially the antici- 

 pated assistance to be given by another member of the Library 

 Staff, trained in science and language, a special plea for reprints 

 was sent at the end of December to each member of the following 

 societies: American Physiological Society; American Society of 

 Biological Chemists; American Society of Pharmacology and 

 Experimental Therapeutics; American Society for Experimental 

 Pathology; Ecological Society of America ; Botanical Society of 

 America; American Society of Zoologists; American Society of 

 Anatomists; American Society of Naturalists. 



The return postal cards have shown how generous and co- 

 operative the spirit of the scientist is. We feel great encourage- 

 ment in regard to building up complete sets of reprints. We 

 should have asked each author to send a bibliographic list of his 

 reprints which could be filed in with such of his reprints as we 

 have represented. This will have to be undertaken in the future. 

 A count of the reprints acquired by the Library for 1924 will be 

 deferred until the year 1925 and will be incorporated with the 

 report for that year. 



It gives me pleasure to express here my appreciation of Miss 

 Deborah Lawrence's assistance in the Library since September 

 1st as Secretary. She gives every promise of accurate and 

 business-like executive. Miss Frances Childs performed this 

 same duty well during the summer, and would have been con- 

 tinued except that she undertook the summer work solely with 

 the provision that she be released to pursue her studies in business 

 training on September 1st. At this same time it is also a pleasure 

 to announce that Miss Margaret Olmsted, Vassar, '24, with 

 special training in physics and chemistry, as well as in French and 

 German, will begin her duties as assistant in the Library on 

 February 2nd, 1925. At this same time also I would greatly like 

 to express my appreciation for the many suggestions that the 

 Library Committee have given during the year. The sympa- 

 thetic co-operation that each member has shown toward the work 

 in the Library adds the authority as well as the balance of the 

 scientist's point of view. 



The Library now contains some 13,000 volumes, about eight- 



