REPORT OF THE ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN. II 



We are making every effort to secure some of the German 

 serials that we now subscribe for, by exchange of the BIOLOGICAL 

 BULLETIN. And our German dealer is cooperating with us in 

 this, to the extent of encouraging us to approach the publishers 

 and editors of these publications with this offer in mind. If we 

 cannot cut down our subscription expense in this way, we shall 

 have to receive a material increase for this item for the year 1925 

 in order to continue everything on our list. The need of system- 

 atically filling gaps in our sets and of securing back sets of new 

 subscriptions that we take up from time to time, has been before 

 us for so long and efforts made to get these by haphazard methods 

 has proved so unsatisfactory, that we are making a special 

 apportionment in our budget hereafter for this purpose. Another 

 need is for a yearly sum to pay for assistance in the Library. 

 The care of steadily increasing amount of material, received 

 each year since 1919, should not be allowed to hamper the 

 efforts of the Assistant Librarian to go on with the work of 

 expansion of the Library. 



In November of this year a printed circular was sent to each 

 member of the Corporation of the Laboratory, soliciting his 

 personal interest in the Library, and asking that he present to 

 the Library any numbers or volumes of the Biological Bulletin 

 that he find available. A fine gift of a complete set from volume 

 3, no. 4 to volume 45 complete, was presented by Dr. Rankin 

 of Princeton and the value of this has been credited to the 

 Library to go on our budget for back sets, a special item just 

 referred to. From Miss Caroline Thompson's Library at 

 Wellesley we received, among other numbers, two that will 

 enable us to complete volumes of the BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN 

 that are out of print. Other numbers have been promised and 

 we hope that the response to our appeal specifically for the 

 Biological Bulletins, and in general for an active interest in 

 and cooperation with the Library is not yet ended. 



PRISCILLA B. MONTGOMERY, 

 Assistant Librarian. 



