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volumes of the Journal of the Tohoku Imperial University, 1903- 
1914; from Mr. Joseph H. Colyer, we were favored with a gift 
of Patrick Browne’s Civil and Natural History of Jamaica, 
1789; from Mr..J. T. Underwood, the recently published twelve 
volume set entitled Luther Burbank, his Methods and Discoveries. 
Our largest donor is the United States Department of Agricul- 
ture, from which department we have received, besides periodicals 
coming regularly, twenty-four volumes and three hundred and 
eighty-two parts. Our thanks are due, in particular, to Mr. E. 
W. Allen, editor of the Experiment Station Record, for his un- 
failing courtesy in response to our requests, and for his generous 
eift of ten volumes and thirty-two numbers of the Record, some 
of which parts are out of print, and of the General Tindésc tory, 
13-25, an index which makes available the literature of all the 
state experiment stations as well as the file of the Record itself, 
Our set of the Experiment Station Record is now fully com- 
pleted, has been well bound in black buckram and is available 
for consultation on our shelves. Mention should also be made of 
the Statistical Atlas of the United States, 1914, a copy of which, 
although the work is listed for sale, was presented to our library 
by Director S. F. Rogers, of the United States Bureau. of the 
Census. 
Among our noteworthy accessions secured by purchase or ex- 
change, of first importance is a set of the Botanical Gazette, v. 
1-29; the back volumes of the Bulletin, the Contributions and the 
Journal of the New York Botanical Garden needed to complete 
our files: the valuable bibliographies issued by the John Crerar 
Library, Chicago; and a small but highly interesting collection 
from Yokohama, consisting of a score of books on the flora of 
Japan and Japanese landscape gardening. In this lot are three 
folio volumes by Josiah Conder, entitled Landscape Gardening in 
Japan and Floral Art of Japan, with illustrations by well-known 
Japanese artists. A number of single works of considerable 
interest have been obtained; among these are J. D. Hooker’s 
Himalayan Journals, 2 vols., London, 1854, bound in full blue 
calf; Hortus Collinsonianus, an Account of the Plants cultivated 
by the late Peter Collinson, Swansea, 1843, bound in full vellum ; 
Thomas Meehan’s Native Flowers and Ferns of the United 
