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apportioned to that item only slightly, as did also the $500.00 

 for supplies. This latter item was greatly increased by the 

 many notices we had printed and mailed to secure reprints. 



The library now contains 15,000 bound volumes and 25,000 

 reprints. Of the 1,790 volumes accessioned during 1925, 1,492 

 were serial volumes and 298 were books. Of the books, 82 were 

 gifts. The books of current issue, i.e., 1924-25 were 82 in 

 number. 



Of the 500 currently received serials now on our cards, showing 

 receipts within the last two years, 175 are paid subscriptions, 

 although we include in this number, 23 "carry-on" orders for 

 monograph series, and those reference works whose issues are 

 being spread out through a number of years. 



The work in caring for the library has been greatly improved 

 during the year 1925 and its organization really established. 

 \Yith an assistant in charge of the reprints and a secretary in 

 charge of the business of orders and receipts, a clear program of 

 procedure in these two important phases of the library activities 

 is functioning. 



Growth in the catalogue is essentially connected with the 

 cataloguing of our reprints. Some 7,000 cards were added to 

 the catalogue this year. The 12,000 reprints acquired this year 

 will when completed make a perceptible increase in the size of 

 the catalogue. 



Mention must be made of the acquisition by the Laboratory 

 of a large part of Dr. Whitman's personal library and manu- 

 scripts. Although it is impossible to make, at this time, any 

 detailed statement of the material in this, that is specifically 

 valuable to us, I may say that in serials, besides duplicates that 

 we may sell, a number of important gaps in our own sets will be 

 filled, some of which are now entirely out of print; and in re- 

 prints, there are probably 10,000, at least one-half of which are 

 not duplicates of those which we already have; and of books and 

 monographs, many that are of great value. 



The new current subscriptions for 1925 not listed in the i')-?4 

 report are: American Journal of Tropical Medicine; Anatomischer 

 Bericht; Annales de Chimie; Annales de Physiologic el de Physico- 

 chemie Biologique; Archiv fur experimentelle Zellforschung; Arch re 



