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this task that a more systematic ordering of library affairs could 
be taken up in detail. 
Attention was then given to the binding of complete volumes of 
botanical journals and paper-covered books ; to the filling out of 
lacunae in sets of periodicals; to the classification of the library ; 
to the bringing down to date of the accession book and the 
pamphlet catalog ; to the revision of the dictionary catalog; to the 
making of a classified shelf catalog; to the gathering in of new 
publications, and the replenishing of technical supplies. 
he year just closing has been marked by a certain amount of 
definite progress in the growth and efficiency of the library. 
While the inadequacy of the library appropriation has not per- 
mitted large or expensive purchases, and while the gifts received 
have not reached the number or the value shown by last year’s 
record, yet the rate of increase has been fully up to the norm, the 
most pressing needs of the staff have been satisfied and works of 
permanent value have been added to our shelves. 
Accessions in 1915 
First among the valuable accessions by which our library has 
been enriched during the past year stands the generous donation 
from the Hoagland Bacteriological Laboratory, consisting of one 
hundred and forty-two volumes of Comptes Rendus de I’ Aca- 
démie des Sciences (Paris), and eight volumes of the Journal of 
the Royal Microscopical Society of London. ‘The file of the rare 
Comptes Rendus is unbroken from its beginning in 1835 down to 
1903, and it is important that the volumes from 1904 to IQT5 
inclusive be secured and that our subscription for current issues 
be placed as soon as possible, 
Your librarian would call attention to the names of donors to 
the library in 1915, as exhibited in the tabular statistics. Mr. 
Frank D. Collins’s gift of fifty-three separates represents all of his 
shorter papers on algae. These he has kindly collected and pre- 
sented to us, and we have completed the Collins bibliography by 
our purchase from Tufts College of his Green Algae of North 
America. From Professor E. B. Wilson, of Columbia Uni- 
versity, we received twenty-three of his monographs on cytology ; 
from the Sapporo Agricultural College, Japan, came four large 
