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Temporary Quarters Outgrown—The library now has about 
twice as many volumes as can be accommodated on its shelves. 
The over volumes are packed in boxes where they are practically 
inaccessible. The present temporary quarters can accommodate 
with difficulty about as many more stacks as we already have, 
but when these are in place all possibilities for more shelving 
will have been exhausted until the construction of the next two 
sections of our building. ‘This condition we face with the needs 
of our staff and the number of readers constantly and rapidly 
increasing. 
Herbarium 
Growth.—The appended report of the curator of plants shows 
that the phanerogamic herbarium has increased during the year 
by over 18,000 specimens. 
Collections acquired —At the suggestion of the director of the 
Garden, the chairman of the committee on botanic garden, on 
October 26, addressed a letter to the chairman of the executive 
committee of the Long Island Historical Society suggesting that 
the herbarium specimens owned by the Society, but not readily 
accessible for public consultation, be transferred to the Brooklyn 
Botanic Garden, either in exchange for books, or as a loan, so that 
the specimens might be more conveniently accessible, not only to 
the Garden staff, but also to the general public. The executive 
committee of the Society took action on this proposal as indicated 
in the following letter: 
Nov. 5, 1914. 
AurreD T. Wuite, Esq., 
40 Remsen Street. 
My dear Mr. White:— 
At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Long Island Historical 
Society, held Tuesday afternoon, it was the unanimous opinion of the 
Committee, that the greatest possible use of our herbarium ought to be 
made but that it was tinwise to treat it other than as a whole. 
It was the opinion of the Committee that if ie would take the entire 
collection, stamping the name of the Society on a sheet so that the 
ownership of it might be evident, that the whole a should be loaned 
to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, to make such use a it as might seem 
wise to them. 
