14 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
of botanical science, and to hold also the important taxonomic 
books of the Linnaean period were installed during the sum- 
mer. These irreplaceable books are now under lock and also 
protected from the dust and smoke of the city. 
The portion of the library on floras arranged geographically, 
formerly on shelves on all the side walls of the office of the 
Secretary to the Director, was removed from that room during 
the summer and placed on the same floor in the space formerly 
occupied by the works on the ferns, mosses, algae, lichens, and 
plant morphology—all the latter having been moved to the 
basement. These extensive changes were necessary to keep 
books of the same section together. 
Publications —Parts 3 and 4 of Vol. VIII of the ANNALS OF 
THE Missouri BoranicaL GARDEN were issued in the first part 
of the year, completing the volume of 410 pages and 3 plates. 
Parts 1 and 2 of Vol. IX, containing 219 pages and 19 plates, 
have been published, and part 3 is in page proof. The ANNALS 
is our principal exchange for publications of scientific socie- 
ties and institutions. The Garden publishes also, but chiefly 
for local circulation, the Garden BuLLetin, of which 10 vol- 
umes have been issued. While the BULLETIN was originally 
intended to serve primarily as a means of informing the pub- 
lic what is of particular interest at the Garden, special atten- 
tion has been given to native and exotic plants suitable for 
the gardens of Missouri and adjoining states. It now appar- 
ently fills a distinct need among those amateurs interested in 
the establishment of gardens in this region, for its copies are 
in request throughout the state. Some 31 of the articles have 
been republished in various horticultural journals, and the 
BULLETIN is in increasing demand all over the United States. 
Visitors from the East and from the far West frequently ask 
to see some special plant or collection of which they have read 
in the BULLETIN or in some publication copying our articles. 
Both the ANNALS and the BULLETIN are supplied to regular 
subscribers; separates of the various articles in the ANNALS 
are also for sale by the library. The cash receipts for the year 
from such sales and from Books of Views of the Garden were 
$1545.81. 
Statistical—There have been donated to the library, or re- 
ceived from our correspondents during the present year, 470 
volumes, valued at $956.20, and 889 pamphlets, valued at 
$170.94; and 228 volumes were bought at a cost of $1058.09, 
