14 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
Botany 13, 7; Botany 16, 8; Botany 17,11; Botany 19,5; 
Botany 23, 2; Botany 25, 8. eG 
THE LIBRARY.” 
All of the books, including the Sturtevant pre-Linnean 
collection, formerly housed in the old museum building, 
have been transferred to the main library building, where 
they are more accessible and the fire risk is less. The library 
has been entirely rearranged and some additional steel stacks 
added, so that there is now provision for about five years’ 
normal expansion. 
There have been 887 volumes, valued at $1,693.75, and 
1,408 pamphlets, valued at $266.80, donated to the library. 
The number of books purchased was 368 and of pamphlets 
216, at a total cost of $870.75. 16,469 index cards have 
been added, 9,314 of which were purchased at a cost of 
$144.22. 2,188 cards were rewritten. The number of books 
bound was 1,136, rebound 103, at a cost of $475.05. 
There are now received 1,512 serial publications, of which 
1,429 are in exchange for Garden publications, an increase 
of 17 over last year. 
Taking the figures from the Twenty-third Annual Re- 
port, with the additions made in 1912, the library now 
contains: 
BOOKER ss eee 29,683 
Pamphlets a0 toe once 42,099 
TL 152s. waned AL ee $108,657 02 
Maniscripte <0. v.26 333. ‘320. Valued at... .:..->5- 1,592 00 | 
Teel oo ee $110,249 02 
Wates: watee 60402 o 787,500..valued at ....<...2. 7,875 69 
Total valuaiion <2. oS . $118,124 71 
THE HERBARIUM. 
Owing to a contemplated change in the policy of the con- 
duct of the herbarium, no additions by purchase were made 
during the year other than those ordered previous to May 1. 
These amounted to 5,569 higher plants and 1,453 thallo- 
hytes, valued at $1,053.30. In addition, there have been 
abot 5,409 specimens of thallophytes. Notable among 
the collections presented were those of Professor F. A. 
Wislizenus, rich in desirable duplicates of soliag-niag F plants, 
and the herbarium of fleshy fungi of the late Dr. Noah M 
