LIBRARY OF THE MUSEUM 



Altogether 9,955 items were obtained in the Library during the 

 year by purchase, exchange, and gift. More than 700 items were dis- 

 posed of by exchange and sale (proceeds from sale of duplicates 

 amounted to more than $550, a part of which has been applied as 

 credits to our accounts with bookdealers) . The following selected 

 titles are typical of the many acquisitions during the year: Species 

 des Hymenopteres d' Europe et d'Algirie, 1879-1903 (by Edmond An- 

 dre), seven volumes and one supplement, is the definitive work on 

 the hymenoptera of the western paleoarctic region; Index Litteraturae 

 Entomoligicae, 1928-29 (by Walther Horn and Sigmund Schenkling), 

 four volumes, includes many additions and corrections to Bibliotheca 

 Entomologica (by Hermann August Hagen) and also the works pub- 

 lished in 1862 and 1863 to fill the gap between Hagen and Zoological 

 Record (v. 1, 1864) ; and Nouveau Museum d'Histoirie Naturelle, Vol- 

 ume 1 , Regne animal, Classe des quadrupedes vivipares ou mammiferes, 

 1806 (by B. E. Manuel) is difficult to obtain and forms an important 

 addition to the collection. The Library benefited from the generosity 

 of the donors listed on pages 124 and 125. 



A resignation and the absence of a staff member in military service 

 have limited the progress during the year of cataloguing and classify- 

 ing, and a backlog of unprocessed material has accumulated. As a 

 temporary measure each uncatalogued title is represented by an 

 author and a title entry in the main card catalogue and uncatalogued 

 serials are listed in a separate file. In a large and complex library of 

 exclusively scientific and technical literature full attention of one 

 cataloguer is required for day-to-day maintenance of the card cata- 

 logue. During the first half of the year the presence of an additional 

 cataloguer enabled the division to make good progress in the number 

 of volumes processed, and all materials received for which printed 

 Library of Congress cards are available were catalogued, classified, 

 and sent to the shelves of the general and departmental libraries. 

 Original cataloguing was done for many monographs and serial pub- 

 lications, including an accumulation in the Russian and Polish lan- 

 guages. Analytics have been made for all monographs appearing in 

 serial publications. 



As a result of increased space in the Anthropology Library, vol- 

 umes temporarily shelved in the General Library were transferred 

 there and catalogue cards provided. The Laufer Collection of works 

 in occidental languages was moved to the East Asia Library in the 

 Department of Anthropology with covering catalogue cards. The 

 East Asia catalogue now contains cards for 728 completely catalogued 



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