DEPARTMENT REPORTS 71 



REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 



To the President: 



Sir — ^I have the honor to present the following report on the library, 

 for the year ending June 30, 1897: 



During the year 440 bound volumes have been added, of which 329 

 were purchased, 60 donated, and 51 by binding. From the following, 

 bound volumes have been received: 



American Short-horn Herd Book, vol. 40. 



American Shropshire Sheep Record, vol. 11. 



American Cotswold Record, vol. 7. 



Butterfield, K. L. Michigan Farmers' Institutes, Bulletin No. 2. 



Georgia, Department of Agriculture, Report 1896. 



Heliostat, the. Junior class. 1897. Three copies. 



Illinois, Department of Agriculture. Trans. 1895. 



Lintner, J. A. "Injurious Insects of N. Y.", 10th, 11th reports. 



Leonard, G. C. "Cap and Go\yn in America." 



Massachusetts, Board of Agriculture. "The Gypsy Moth." 



Maine, "Vital Statistics." 2d report. 



McCormick, Cyrus. "Inventors." 



Meadville, (Pa.), Theol. School. "Christianity and Social Problems." 



Michigan. "Laying of the Corner-stone of the New Capitol." 



Michigan Dairymen's Association, 11th annual repott. 



Board of Agriculture, Report 1894-5. 



State Medical Society, Trans., 1896. • 



Labor Commissioner, 14th annual report. 



Labor Bureau. "Vital Statistics." 28th annual report. 



Labor Bureau. "Factory Inspection." 4th annual report. 



Board of Corrections and Charities, 13th biennal report. 



Board of Health, 22d annual report. 



Horticultural Society, Report 1895. 



Local Acts, 1889. 

 Nebraska Horticultural Society, Report 1894. 

 Parsons, Miller & Steward, "Invention of Reaping Machines." 

 Rhode Island Board of Agriculture, 11th report. 

 Smyth, B. B. Kansas Acad, of Science. Trans, vol. 14. 

 Smithsonian Institution, Report 1895. 



Report 1894, U. S. Nat. Museum, 2 vol. 



Proc. U. S Nat. Museum, 1895. 



Bureau of Ethnology, 13th report. 



Contributions to knowledge, 3 vols. 

 Stokes, A. P. "Joint Metalism." 

 United States: 



Department of Agriculture. Report 1893-4. 



Census Bureau. 6 vols. 



Bureau of Education. 2 vols. 



Labor Bureau. "Strikes and Lock-outs." 



Labor Bureau, 8th special report. 



Navy Department. Washington Observations, 1890. 



Navy Record, U. S. and Confedeaate Navies, 2 vols. 



Navy American Ephemeris, 1899. 



Coast and Geod. Survey, Report 1895. 



War Department. Rebellion Records. 2 vols. 



War Department. Chief of Engineers. Report 1896. 6 vols. 



Interstate Commerce Commission, Statistics of R. R. , 1895. 



Notes on mitering lock gates. 



Certain climatic features of the two Dakotas. 



