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ment. The series of books on the orchid family has been 

 increased by the purchase of some valuable and costly illus- 

 trated volumes and quite a number of fine old books on land- 

 scape gardening have been added to the collection. 



At a meeting of the Torrey Botanical Club on February 

 12, 1901, the club adopted the following resolution in regard 

 to the disposition of their numerous exchanges: "That the 

 future exchanges of the Torrey Club become the property of 

 the New York Botanical Garden (except in the case of sets 

 which are already in part the property of Columbia Univer- 

 sity) with the proviso that the Garden reciprocate by allow- 

 ing the members full and free access to the Garden Library." 

 A list of these exchanges is appended to this report. 



The duplicate working collections of books in the labora- 

 tory and in the herbarium have been considerably enlarged 

 during the year. 



Accessions to the Library, other than the serials and regu- 

 lar exchanges, have been published monthly in the Journal. 



List of Exchanges. 



Institutions. 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn, Ala. 



