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the Librarian, hereto appended, the number of books added 

 during the year aggregates 1,415 volumes, besides several 

 thousand pamphlets and parts. The Special Book Fund re- 

 ferred to in my last annual report, subscribed by members 

 of the Board of Managers and other friends of the Garden, 

 has been useful and has enabled us to secure over 600 vol- 

 umes, many of them of great value in our work ; a small 

 balance of this fund still remains unexpended. 



Additional exchanges for garden bulletin and contribu- 

 tions have been arranged with a number of journals and 

 societies, the number of journals and publications of socie- 

 ties or institutions now regularly received from all sources, 

 being over 250. The cataloguing of the Library has pro- 

 gressed satisfactorily, the number of cards written during the 

 year being about 4,000. The accession of works on Agri- 

 culture and Horticulture, on which considerable work was 

 done in 1899, lias Deen Iurtner prosecuted during the past 



year. 



Museums and Herbarium. 



The installation of the public museums on the first and 

 second floors of the museum building was commenced in the 

 spring immediately upon the completion of the Parker con- 

 tract for the construction of the building, and by the middle 

 of the summer a temporary arrangement of the available 

 specimens, than at hand, had been made in the cases on those 

 floors. Since this preliminary arrangement work has been 

 continuously prosecuted in increasing the exhibits, in label- 

 ling them, and in substituting for the specimens first installed, 

 others illustrating the plant or the product in a better way. 



The herbarium room at the eastern end of the third floor 

 was also occupied early in the year, the herbarium of Co- 

 lumbia University having been completely moved to this 

 room by the end of January. Work in conserving and ar- 

 ranging it and also the collection accumulated by the Garden, 

 has gone on continuously during the year and much prog- 

 ress has been made in making the specimens more avail- 

 able and useful to Students. The reports of the Curator of 



