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only of enriching our own collections, but of enabling the Garden 
to return, in some measure, the numerous courtesies it has re- 
ceived from other similar institutions. 
Library 
Growth—A statistical report on the library, appended hereto, 
gives the total number of volumes on December 31, 1914, as 3,033, 
and in addition about 3,650 pamphlets. There was an increase 
over 1913 of 1,403 volumes and 1,652 pamphlets. The largest 
single additions were the library of Mr. E. L. Morris, and 
the valuable gift of the botanical library of Mrs. Annie Morrill 
Smith, comprising 792 volumes and 508 pamphlets. The latter 
library is specially rich in works on Bryophytes (Liverworts and 
Mosses), and constitutes the most valuable single addition to our 
library since the Garden was founded. 
Cooperation with the Brooklyn Public Library—In my Annual 
Report for 1913 I took pleasure in recording the deposit with our 
library by the Trustees of the Brooklyn Public Library, of a com- 
plete set of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine. On May 4, 1914, the 
suggestion was made to the authorities of that institution to de- 
posit with the Garden Library their complete set of the Annals of 
Botany, the Botanical Gazette, volumes 1-17 and 39-50, and Ea- 
wards’ Botanical Register, volumes 1-10, on the ground that the 
large majority of persons in Brooklyn who are interested in bot- 
any would be served more efficiently by having such sets at the 
Garden than at any other library in the Borough, since the Gar- 
den is fast becoming the botanical center of Brooklyn. On May 
23 we were notified of the action of the book committee of that 
library, voting that the set of the Annals of Botany be deposited 
with the Garden, with the understanding that it may be recalled 
at any time, but that the Botanical Register and Botanical Gazette 
were needed in the reference department at the Montague Branch. 
The importance of the Annals, and the difficulty of securing com- 
plete sets make this generous action of the trustees of the Brook- 
lyn Public Library especially appreciated. The current numbers 
are also sent to the Garden as received, and the new volumes, 
bound by the Garden as soon as completed, remain the property 
of the Brooklyn Public Library. 
