Oct. 1900. Annual Report of the Director. 439 



*A. 



Individuals, 50 



Universities, Schools and Colleges, . . 



Museums and Gardens 10 



Academies and Institutes, ... 3 



Societies 12 



Libraries, 1 



Journals, 12 



Governmentand State Departments, . . 



In the matter of the exchange of contemporaneous publications, 

 the Director of the Museum requests that all publications from other 

 Institutions, Societies, Organizations, or individuals intended to be 

 given to this Museum, in exchange for its publications or otherwise, 

 be directed to the Library of the Field Columbian Museum and not 

 to the departments, or to any individual upon the staff. 



The Library. — The accessions in the library during the year 

 were 881 volumes and 2,360 pamphlets. Most of these acquisitions 

 were received in exchange for the Museum publications. It is grati- 

 fying to be able to state that not only have the Museum correspond- 

 ents promptly sent their current publications, but in many instances 

 they have readily volunteered to supply back numbers, in order to 

 complete sets. A demand for more standard works of reference relat- 

 ing to the departments represented in the Museum still remains. The 

 most notable accession to the library was the splendid gift from Mr. 

 Edward E. Ayerof his carefully selected Ornithological library, num- 

 bering approximately 400 volumes, many of them rare and all of the 

 highest value. Special book cases were built for their installation, 

 and also a special standing case for the set of Audobon. The author 

 and shelf list catalogues are kept up to date. In the General Library 

 much labor has resulted from the almost constant shifting of books 

 to make room for accessions. To provide required space in the 

 central room 348 books and pamphlets on Economic Geology were 

 transferred to the branch library located in the Department of Geol- 

 ogy. Three hundred and eighty books have been received from the 

 binders. There are now 23,000 titles in the John Crerar Library 

 Duplicate Catalogue. The total number of volumes and pamphlets 

 in the library at this time reaches 24,349, distributed as follows: 



Books. Pamphlets. 



General Library, . 8,124 10,519 



Department of Anthropology, ....... 178 85 



Department of Botany, 402 244 



*A., B„ G., H., I. A., O. T. and Z. denote Anthropology, Botany, Geology, History, Indus- 

 trial Arts, Ornithology, Transportation, and Zoology. 



