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been duly recorded in the Journal. Gifts of money applied 

 to the purchase of books, and credited to the special book 

 fund have been made as follows : 



\V. C. Schermerhorn $ 500.00 



Mrs. Alfred Corning Clark 100.00 



Andrew Fletcher 25 .00 



D. O. Mills 500.00 



J . Pierpont Morgan : . . 500.00 



Miss Olivia E. Phelps Stokes 100.00 



Miss Caroline Phelps Stokes 100.00 



$1,825.00 



The number of books bound during the year is 973. The 

 number of catalogue cards written was over 5 5 ° 00 - 



Additional exchanges of publications have been arranged, 

 the number of journals, periodicals and reports now received 

 by us for our own publications being 207. 



Under the supplementary agreement with the Trustees of 

 Columbia College dated May 3d, 1901, the paleobotanical 

 portion of the College library was deposited with the Garden 

 during the summer, and after a critical comparison of it with 

 the shelf-lists of the College library, I signed a receipt for 

 the books as well as for the fossil plants from the College 

 geological museum, under the provisions of the supplementary 

 agreement. 



An agreement was made with the Torrey Botanical Club, 

 whereby all books and pamphlets received by the Club in 

 exchange for its publications now become the property of the 

 Garden, the Garden on its part granting the members of the 

 Club the privileges of its library ; by this agreement we re- 

 ceive regularly 31 serials, in addition to those brought in by 

 our own publications. 



riuseums and Herbarium. 



The public museum collections have been largely increased 

 by gifts, exchanges, purchase, and by the results of our ex- 

 peditions. These have been duly reported in the Journal. 

 It has been sought to put the additional specimens into place 

 in the cases, so far as space would permit, as soon as they 



