IO MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY. 



V. THE REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN, 

 DECEMBER 31, 1926. 



The year's acquisitions and accomplishments are greater than 

 those of any year in the history of the library except perhaps of the 

 year when the American Museum turned over to our library many 

 valuable back sets of serials on a long-time loan. This year, the 

 advance over the past ten is in direct proportion to the increase in 

 our available funds due to the generous gift from the General 

 Education Board of $10,000 to be spent in the purchase of back 

 sets and of expensive reference works and monographs. While 

 the $10,000 was spent for the precise purpose to which it was 

 designed, a sum from our own annual budget that we should have 

 spent toward this purpose had we been dependent upon our budget 

 alone, was thus released to furnish extra help, not only in con- 

 nection with the purchases made possible by this sum from the 

 General Education Board, but also in carrying out certain accumu- 

 lated tasks that have now by the end of the year been practically 

 accomplished. 



Of serials there were 41 back sets completed, the most notable of 

 these sets being the Comptes Rendus of the French Academy, 

 Vir chow's Archiv, and Die Naturwissenschaften. There were 33 

 back sets nearly completed, the most notable of these being 

 Pfliiger's Archiv. By exchange we secured 5 complete back sets 

 and 9 partially complete back sets. 



One hundred and eleven serials were added to our current re- 

 ceipts, 30 by subscription and 81 by exchange. Many will recall 

 the lists of possible serials that were submitted to the investigators 

 during the summer of 1925. From among those for which we 

 received requests we secured in newly undertaken subscriptions 

 and exchanges. 



There were several monographs and reference books purchased 

 among which were Retzius' ' Biologische Untersuchungen," Rich- 

 et's " Dictionnaire de Physiologic," " Norwegian North-Atlantic 

 Expedition," and Glazenbrook's " Dictionary of Physics." Ab- 

 derhalden's " Handbuch " is still being purchased as it comes from 

 the press. Two hundred and eighty-seven books, not expensive 

 reference works or monographs, were added to the library, 133 by 

 purchase and 154 by gift. 



