22 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
LIBRARY 
The usual library work of checking up and entering cur- 
rent numbers of the many hundreds of serial botanical pub- 
lications which the library receives annually, collating the 
volumes for binding after their parts have made the round of 
the scientific staff, and finally distributing these volumes and 
other accessions of the year upon the book shelves has been 
kept well in hand during the year. Good progress has been 
made also in securing many publications which could not 
reach us during the great war, atlhough some series are still 
incomplete. 
Use of Inbrary by Botanists Not Connected with the 
Garden.—As stated from month to month in the Garden 
BULLETIN, many botanists have visited the library during the 
year to work up or to consult the literature in their special 
fields. Two such visitors of wide experience in consulting 
libraries—one from Kew Herbarium and the other from the 
Cryptogamic Herbarium of Harvard University—spoke in 
highest praise of the range and completeness of our library 
and of the promptness with which the library staff placed the 
resources in unusual works before them. During the year 
there have been loans of 96 books to 28 institutions on the 
interlibrary plan for use by their botanists. 
Publications—The publication of vol. VIII, the current 
volume, of the ANNALS OF THE Missour! BOTANICAL GARDEN 
was held up during several months of the year by the printers’ 
strike, so that of this quarterly only two numbers have been 
issued during the year; part 3 is in page proof now and the 
remaining part to complete the volume will appear as soon as 
the printer can handle it. The ANNALS is our principal ex- 
change for publications of scientific societies and institutions. 
The Garden publishes also, but chiefly for local cireula- 
tion, the GarpeN Buuuetin. This latter publication is 
apparently filling a distinct need among those amateurs in- 
terested in the establishment of gardens in this part of the 
country. While the BuLLETIN was originally intended to 
serve primarily as a means of informing the public what was 
of particular interest at the Garden, for the last two years 
special attention has been given to native and exotic plants 
suitable for the gardens of Missouri and adjoining states. As 
a consequence we have had requests for copies of the publica- 
tion from a large number of individuals throughout the state, 
and since most of the horticultural publications eopy nearly 
