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able, though he offered the suggestion that the best use of the books 

 would be secured if they might be separately shelved from other 

 classes of books and if a catalogue of them and the other pre-Linnean 

 books of the library might be printed, so that persons wishing to make 

 use of them might know where they were to be found. Visitors to 

 the library are more interested in the quaint volumes of this part of 

 its contents than in any other, and investigators have called its treas- 

 ures into use on many occasions, not infrequently writing from a dis- 

 tance for transcripts of passages that they have needed to use, but 

 have not been able to consult elsewhere. Sometimes, for days at a 

 time, students of particular groups of plants long cultivated, have 



been occupied with the camera, 

 reducing to unimpeachable 

 form their quotations from 

 these books. Quite recently, 

 it has been found possible to 

 nearly double this collection, 

 by the purchase of a similar 

 collection formed by a gentle- 

 man in Europe, and the cata- 

 logue of the Sturtevant library 

 made and printed some years 

 ago in compliance with the 

 suggestion of its donor, which 

 was considered of the greatest 

 importance will be supple- 

 mented by a list of these later 

 acquired works. Very touch- 

 ing was the last thought of 

 Dr. Sturtevant for the garden. 

 Knowing that death was at 

 hand, he took from their cab- 

 inet the last and greatest of 

 his treasures, his manuscript 

 card references to the literature of cultivated plants, and himself 

 packed them in a safe manner for shipment, giving instruction that they 

 should be forwarded to the garden immediately after his death. May 

 the institution never be less worthy than it then was of such confidence ! 

 To go into details concerning the library at large would be weari- 

 some and useless. Suffice it to say that, based on the small but well 

 selected library bought by Dr. Engelmann for Mr. Shaw many years 

 before his death, and augmented by the gift of the libraries of Engel- 

 mann, Sturtevant and the director of the garden as well as many 



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