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Zeitschrift fiir Pflanzengiichtung, Berlin ; American Journal of 
Science, New Haven; Biological Bulletin of the Marine Biological 
Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. Our current periodical list has 
now reached the number of 224 titles. 
With a view to making our library more efficient in service and 
to securing a larger degree of cooperation with the libraries of 
the city, typewritten copies of our periodical list have been twice 
sent out to six of the libraries in Greater New York, with a 
request for return favors. Appreciative acknowledgments have 
been received from each of these libraries, and printed or type- 
written lists of currently received serial publications have come 
from the Montague Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, the 
New York Public Library, the New York Botanical Garden and 
the Children’s Museum. It is gratifying to state that occasionally 
some research student from out of town visits the Garden,solely 
to consult some periodical not to be found in any one of the larger 
libraries of New York. 
Grateful acknowledgment is herewith made to the Brooklyn 
Public Library for the regular deposit, month by month, in the 
Garden library, of Annals of Botany and Curtis's Botanical 
Magazine. By special courtesy of the board of trustees of the 
Brooklyn Public Library, the current issues of these journals, 
which are invaluable in our reference work, are now sent to the 
Garden as published, and bound by us when the volumes are 
complete. 
Early in the year it was discovered that, in the absence of a 
librarian, the subscription to a number of our foreign periodicals 
had lapsed; some not having been received since early in 1914. 
The difficulty of getting shipments from Europe has complicated 
the situation, but with the helpful cooperation of our foreign 
agent these irregularities have been straightened out, and nearly 
all of our French, German, Italian and Scandinavian periodicals 
are now currently received, with no greater delay than is to be 
expected while the war is on. 
For the periodical cases, japanned tin label-holders 2 12.5 
cm. have been bought and fitted with typewritten labels, so that 
each of our current serials arranged in alphabetical order on the 
shelves has its own title standing out distinctly above it. The 
