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Mrs. Mae Ellena Bachler, of Chicago, presented a ver\- beauti- 

 fully prepared book by !\Ianly P. Hall: Encyclopedic Outline of the 

 Masonic, Hermetic, Qahhalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolic Philosophy. 



The Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C., has again presented 

 several important volumes of its valuable publications. President 

 Stanley Field has continued presenting week by week the issues of 

 the Illustrated London News, and Director Stephen C. Simms has 

 given those of the Museum News published bj^ the American Associa- 

 tion of Museum.s. The publishers of the Scientific American kindly 

 placed the Museum Library on their free list for the coming j-ear. 



Among other gifts that have been of especial value are: Liberia 

 Rediscovered, presented by ]\Ir. Han-ey S. Firestone, Akron, Ohio; 

 L. Kraglie\ich's La Antiguedo.d Pliocena de las Faunas de Monte 

 Hermoso y Chapaduratal, presented by the National IMuseum of 

 Buenos Aires; Melanges entomologiques, volume 5, from I\I. Henri 

 Gadeau de Kerville, Paris; 14 botanical works from ]Mr. Hermann 

 Benke, Chicago; Glossary of Arms and Armor in All Countries and 

 in All Times, from ]Mr. George Cameron Stone, Portland, ]Maine; 

 Sweefs Architectural Catalogue, 4 volumes, from the publishers, 

 Sweet's Catalogue Service, Xew York; and Bureau of American 

 Ethnology Annual Reports, 4 volumes, from ]\Iisses Edith and Faith 

 Wyatt, Chicago. 



Even more than in previous years the ^Museum Libran,- is indebted 

 to other libraries for loans of books needed in the work of this institu- 

 tion. Among those especially helpful were: The Libran- of Congress, 

 Washington, D.C.; Library of the American ^Museum of X'atural 

 Hist or}', Xew York; University of Illinois Libran-, Urbana, Illinois; 

 University of ^Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, IMichigan; Grosvenor 

 Libran.-, Buffalo, Xew York; the libraries of the Peabody Museum 

 of Archaeology and the ^Museum of Comparative Zoology at Han-ard 

 L'niversity, Cambridge, ^Massachusetts; L'niversity of Chicago 

 Libraiy; L'nited States Department of Agriculture Libran.^ Washing- 

 ton, D.C.; and the libran,- of the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, 

 Massachusetts. Field IMuseum has also lent more books to other 

 institutions this year than at any time before. 



Binding has necessarily been omitted during the last few years, 

 but the Library- was fortunate in ha\'ing a little of the most needed 

 work done in 1934. 



During the year there have been 2,252 books and 3,000 pamphlets 

 added to the Libran,-. The approximately 5,000 books left to the 

 Museum by Dr. Laufer are not included here because the work of 



