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Publications were received from 808 individuals and institutions. 

 A special effort was made to increase the useful collections of separata. 

 Requests for reciprocation with equivalent literature were made to all 

 authors who are receiving the publications of the Museum, and who 

 had not done so hitherto. The response to date is gratifying, some 

 four hundred titles having been received. The securing of these ad- 

 ditions, the effecting of new exchanges, the obtaining of missing parts 

 to fill in or to complete sets, involved the writing of approximately 

 1,000 letters. From the translators and commentators, Mr. and Mrs. 

 Herbert Clark Hoover, London and New York City, was received 

 a copy of Georgius Agricola De Re Metallica, translated from the 

 first Latin edition of 1556, with biographical introduction, annotations, 

 etc. With copies of the original editions of 162 1 and 1657 in the 

 library, this gift of an accurate translation of this classic in miner- 

 alogical literature is highly prized. The library was also the recipient 

 of a copy of the second volume of the J. Pierpont Morgan Catalogue 

 of Porcelains. Other gifts of value received were from Mr. G. R. 

 Agassiz, Cambridge, Mass.; Mr. William D. Boyce of Chicago; Mr. 

 Arthur De Selm, Kankakee, Illinois; Mr. Martin A. Ryerson, Chicago; 

 Mr. William Schaus, Washington, D. C; Mr. Charles D. Walcott, 

 Washington, D. C; Imperial Botanical Gardens, St. Petersburg, 

 Russia; Japan Society, London, 'England; Royal Academy of Science, 

 Vienna, Austria; Ecole des Langues Orientales Vivantes, Paris, France; 

 The Natural History Museum of .Hamburg, Germany; the Natural 

 History Society of Hannover, Germany; U. S. Department of Com- 

 merce and Labor; the Smithsonian Institution and Yale University 

 Library, New Haven. A notable accession of the year was the 

 literature received with the collection of Ward-Coonley meteorites. 

 The late Mr. Ward had collected over three thousand titles, 1,250 new 

 to this Library, covering the years 1620-1906. This addition to the 

 literature already on the Museum shelves places this library in the 

 front rank on this particular subject. Among the most important 

 purchases were: Le Coq, Chotscho; Gorer & Blacker, Chinese porce- 

 lain and hard stones; Dufour, Le Bayon d 'Angkor Thorn bas- 

 reliefs; Brabourne & Chubb, Birds of South America; Giebel & Liche, 

 Mammalia, 1874-1913; Martius & Spix, Reise in Brasilien, 1817-20. 



The books, periodicals and pamphlets bound during the year number 

 1,021. The proper sequence of the accessions has had to be sacrifled to 

 make more readily accessible the books most in demand. Two cases 

 discarded for installation purposes by the Departments were fitted 

 with shelves and placed in the General Reading Room and filled with 

 works of a general character. All duplicate material has been packed 



